A lone cosmonaut is at the controls

“Yuri Baturin is the only cosmonaut authorized to speak with reporters. He has cotton-white hair, tinted glasses and the calm presence of a man who, after two voyages into space, has lost the capacity to worry over details. You ask him about the Russian program and prepare yourself for exuberance.

Instead, Baturin pauses and sighs.

“This is a very difficult and painful question, because it’s not very proper to criticize your own government, especially in a foreign newspaper,” he says. “But our politicians who talk about the space program don’t understand a thing about it. I state today that Russia does not have a real space program.”" Link.

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в фальшивках iPhone России вы

“So people fall on this and then bring such devices to the service centers where they are being disassembled, and what a surprise – inside there is no anything looking like iPhone inner stuff but only two batteries and a light bulb lighting an apple logo shadow when the power button is being pressed, also there is a bar of steel so that the phone can weigh like a real thing.” Ahhhhh…. yes the fake iPhone scam explained.

looks real from the back

contains steel bar and lightbulb - no phone parts

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Я люблю Россию ядерную

Yes, here is an awesome write up of a tour through an active nuclear power plant in Russia. Here are my favorite pics, but see this link for the full article.

the reactor is embedded in the concrete floor

just hanging out on the job

dials, so many dials

reactor layout

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