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SLAVA for men, made in Russia, 21 jewel gilding series 20. Slava (Russian: Cлава, meaning "Glory") watches were classic "civil" Russian watches.The Slava factory (known originally as the Second Moscow Watch Factory) was the second non-military watchmaker established in the Soviet Union, in 1924.
Censorship of images was widespread in the Soviet Union.Visual censorship was exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some of the purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images and destroying film.
Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin (Russian: Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин; born 1 September 1966) is a Russian former linguist, philologist, and historian who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of twenty-six girls and women between the ages of 3 and 29 were discovered in his apartment in Nizhny Novgorod.
The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is Russia's oldest factory, founded by Peter the Great in 1721. Raketa watches have been produced for the Red Army, the Soviet Navy, and for North Pole expeditions, as well as for civilians. Today, Raketa is one of a handful of global watch brands that produces its own movements from start to finish.
Pobeda (Russian: Победа, Victory) is a Russian brand of wrist-watches owned by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory "Raketa".The brand name was chosen by Stalin himself in April 1945, [1] when he gave the order that the first watches be ready for the 1st year of Victory celebration.
An image shared on Facebook claims to show deposed Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad in Moscow, Russia. Verdict: False The image is from 2023 and shows him in Aleppo, Syria, after an earthquake. Fact ...
FKU [nb 1] Corrective Colony No. 2 of the FSIN of Russia for the Republic of Mordovia, [1] or simply IK-2 Yavas, is a women's corrective colony in Russia. [2] It is located near Yavas, Mordovia, about 300 mi (480 km) southeast of Moscow. [3] [4] It is known for the incarceration of WNBA player Brittney Griner.
Natalya "Natasha" Nikolayevna Demkina (Russian: Ната́лья Никола́евна Де́мкина; born 1987) is a Russian woman who claims to possess a special vision that allows her to look inside human bodies and see organs and tissues, and thereby make medical diagnoses. Since the age of ten, she has performed readings in Russia.