25 Insane Things You Might Not Know About Russia
With the crisis in Ukraine recently, Russia has been in the news quite a bit. As Winston Churchill once said though, Russia is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”. Read on to find out 25 insane things you didn't know about Russia!
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Rich people in Moscow buy ambulances and use them to drive around because the traffic is so bad
Russian McDonald's carry the McShrimp, something that allegedly cannot be found anywhere else
Russia's surface area is bigger than Pluto's surface area
It spans 9 contiguous time zones which is more than any other country
Roughly 9 million people ride the Moscow metro every day. That is more than New York and London combined
Everyone thinks America has a high homicide rate (4.7 per 100,000), but Russia's is twice as high (9.7 per 100,000)
On average Russians drink 6.3 shots of liquor per week while Americans drink 3.3
Russians also consume about 6 times as much tea as Americans
Lake Baikal holds one fifth of the world's fresh water
64% of journalist deaths in Russia since 1992 have been murders
Russia is actually rated the 5th deadliest country on Earth to be a journalist
In 1867 Russia sold Alaska to the United States for less than 2 cents an acre
Siberia accounts for 77% of the country
At the nearest point, Russia and the United States are less than 4 km apart
There are over half a million alcohol related deaths in Russia every year
World War II has actually not completely ended yet. Due to a dispute over the Kuril Islands, Russia and Japan still haven't signed a peace treaty and therefore they remain at war
During Peter the Great's reign there was a beard tax which anyone with a beard had to pay
25% of Russian men die before reaching the age of 55 compared with only 1% in the United States.
Officials believe this is related to Vodka consumption. The average Russian consumes 18 liters of alcohol annually which is over two times what experts consider dangerous.
Driving around with a dirty car is a criminal offense
It is believed that Russia has at least 15 secret cities with unknown names and locations
During times of high inflation or economic recession, people are sometimes paid in Vodka
The mayor of a city called Megion in Siberia actually banned excuses
Russia has 8400 nuclear warheads which is more than any other nation
Apple is worth more than the entire Russian stock market
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Law of jungle on Russian roads as car crashes on rise
It's one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Today though, a major effort to tackle the problem of traffic accidents will take place in Moscow, where the first-ever Global Conference on road safety opens. Russias mortality rate from car crashes is the highest in Europe
Russia Car Crash Tunnel
This tunnel in Russia is the longest in-city tunnel of Europe.
There is river running over it and water leaks at some points.
When the temperature reaches minus 38 degrees like it did this
particular winter, the road freezes and the result is the attached
video taken during A SINGLE DAY with the tunnel camera.
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Best Fresh Ultimate Car Crash Compilation. Full HD. Volume 4. August 2015. Part 2
00:00 - Attention! Death. August 3, 2015. Russia, 25th km Surgut-Nizhnevartovsk Highway, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District. 30-year-old Kia Rio driver drove oncoming,
crashed Iveco bus. Kia Rio driver has died.
00:35 - Attention! Death. August 3, 2015. Russia, 69th km Chelyabinsk-Troitsk Highway. 60-year-old Hyundai Starex driver while overtaking, drove into oncoming crashed
head-on VAZ-2108. 31-year-old Lada driver and 60-year-old Hyundai Starex driver were injured incompatible with life.
01:16 - Attention! Death. August 3, 2015. Russia, Izhevsk, Dzerzhinsky Street. Hyundai driver has brought down 56-year-old woman, crossing the roadway in the wrong
place. Woman has died.
01:41 - Attention! Death. August 3, 2015. Russia, Tyumen, Nicholas Chaplin Street. Motorcyclist knocked down 62-year-old drunk pedestrian, ran across the road outside
the crosswalk. Pedestrian was seriously injured and died in intensive care.
03:14 - August 1, 2015. Ukraine, Letichev, Khmelnitsky region. SUV Toyota Land Cruiser driver, moving along the side of the road, lost control, skidding flew into the
oncoming lane crashed with the car.
03:55 - Attention! Death. August 3, 2015. Russia, Moscow, Kosygin avenue. After crash with Audi moto-rider fell off the bike and slid a few meters on the asphalt,
crashed into a curb. Motorcycle driver died.
04:01 - August 5, 2015. Russia, Crimea. Car with DVR crashed wagon, whose driver began to turn left not convinced of the safety of the maneuver.
04:18 - August 5, 2015. Russia, Novosibirsk. Gogol and Red Avenues intersection car with DVR sideswipe another car. Car with DVR flew oncoming and made yet another
accident.
04:31 - August 1, 2015. Russia, St. Petersburg. BMW and Ford crashed on the regulated crossroads.
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Oil is leaky.
It can be controlled, transported, and regulated,
but it always seems to find a way out of its container.
To add this dangerous situation to any coast, across any more land will be a serious mistake. It is already almost game over for human kind as we are also destroying the air we breathe.
Mother Earth and our environment can’t afford to take any more hits from us!
It is time for all nations to start giving back what we take or else future generations will inherit a wasteland; a big mess, with a huge loss of botanical and spiritual medicine.
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Oil Spill in West Siberia, Russia
Oil spilled from TNK-BP (BP joint company) oil pipelines. Nizhnevartovsk, West Siberia, Russia.
1 Aug, 2000
© Igor Gavrilov / Greenpeace
Oil Spill of a Barge in Houston Channel, Texas, U.S.A
A barge loaded with marine fuel oil sits partially submerged in the Houston Ship Channel, Galveston. The bulk carrier Summer Wind, reported a collision between the Summer Wind and a barge, containing 924,000 gallons of fuel oil, towed by the motor vessel Miss Susan.
24 Mar, 2014
© The United States Coast Guard
BP Oil Rig Disaster, Mississippi River Delta, U.S.A
A view from an altitude of 3200 ft of the oil on the sea surface, originated by the leaking of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead. The BP leased oil platform exploded on April 20 and sank after burning, leaking an estimate of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline into the sea.
6 May, 2010
© Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
Oil Spill from Refugio State Beach, California, U.S.A
Oil from a broken pipeline coats miles of the Pacific shoreline at Refugio State Beach near Goleta, after a 24-inch underground pipeline broke and leaked into a culvert leading to the ocean. Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline said up to 105,000 gallons of oil were released before the pipeline was shut down.
20 May, 2015
© Jonathan Alcorn / Greenpeace
Oil Spill Clean-up in Dalian, China
The oil covered hand of a local fishermen who is cleaning up oily sludge from the contaminated beaches at Nanhaitun, Weitang Bay. The spill was caused by a Xingang Port pipeline blast belonging to the China National Petroleum Corporation.
21 Jul, 2010
© Lu Guang / Greenpeace
Rosneft Oil Spill in Russia
An oil spill at the Rosneft oil field, near Pyt-Yakh, Siberia.
Disastrous oil spills are a daily routine at Rosneft fields near Pyt'-Yah, Khanty-Mansi region, which have turned thousands of hectares of forests and mires into environmental disaster zones just in a matter of years. Rosneft has received at least 23 license blocks from the Russian government for oil exploration and production on the Arctic shelf.
29 May, 2013
© Denis Sinyakov / Greenpeace
Oil Spill at Papamoa beach, New Zealand
Oil covers a section of Papamoa beach from the MV Rena , a container ship owned by Costamare Inc. which ran aground the Astrolab Reef, about 20km from Tauranga on October 5th.
13 Oct, 2011
© Simon Grant / Greenpeace
Oil Spill of Rainbow Pipeline in Alberta, Canada
A view of the clean up operations of the worst oil spill in Alberta for 35 years, dumping 28,000 barrels of oil into a wetland area at Evi. The Peace River community of Little Buffalo in Lubicon Cree, First Nation traditional territory took the damage. The Rainbow Pipeline is owned by a Canadian subsidiary of Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline
5 May, 2011
6 May, 2011
© Greenpeace / Rogue Collective
North Dakota Pipeline Oil Spill
A farmer near Tioga, North Dakota smelled oil for several days, before discovering a leaking 6-inch 20-year-old Tesoro pipeline under his wheat field, on September 29. Trenches filled with crude oil wait to be picked up after the Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline spilled 865,000 gallons covered over seven acres, the biggest leak in North Dakota since it became a major U.S. producer.
12 Oct, 2013
© Neal Lauron / Greenpeace
Oiled Marshland in Louisiana
Oil from from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead reached the marshlands on the NE pass of the Mississippi Delta. Booms are installed in an attempt to contain the oil.
23 May, 2010
© Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
2011 Talkessel Backstage: Interview Maria Franke
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