Excellent project name.

I guess I am denied entry to the country from now on. Oh well.

Ok, the only question remaining is whether it can be considered a categorical imperative to drive out the c*nts from Kant's birthplace.

Consider it a bad case of an allergic reaction.

Ah, the man on the bridge is still alive and kicking. Like an old friend. Uzh is developing at break neck speed but some things don't change.

Best I know the ferris wheel in the background was last "used" by the guy called Shiey (.com) 5 or so yrs ago. Perhaps you know him.

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If I had to guess, it is a celestial globe depicting the constellations based on, if not the western one, the starlore of one of the civilisations that had a more refined interest in the night sky. The only similar thing I found was this: www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...

Not that aesthetically it caught my eyes much, at least not as a blurry background object, but being a globemaker myself I often wondered about the same thing. Still no idea though.

He will be missed. R.I.P.

Need more data to navigate the newer and newer iterations of our messy world with some confidence, but I wonder whether something akin to the rule of thumb that goes "do not believe anything until Russia denies it" applies here.

Cool. I don't have time to check and confirm but I assume it is one of the clowns we saw in Simon Ostrovsky's Russian Roulette series back in 2014?

Yeah, aura, innocent look. Complete story with a sense of humour. The photographer should get a professional award.

That is a hilarious cover image by the way.

The Kremlin and especially Putin play with fears, but they (have to) accept when somebody calls their bluff. Russian scarecrow tactics are meant for the weak-minded and when you fall for it, then you better question your critical thinking skills.

I am shocked. Russia, of all places!