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Ekaterina (or simply "Katya") Darvina is my cousin. She's a professional yoga coach.

Recently we've met to film a series of video lessons for her online marathon for those who won't coming to her class but to practice at home.

On our way to the video session, we've hopped in to the McDonald's restaurant. It was not appreciated too much by Katya because already for 5 years she's into a healthy diet avoiding any meat, sugar, grease, salt and etc.

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Ufa Arena is the main playground for 2013 Ice Hockey U20 World Championship in Ufa, Russia. We have visited one of it's games, Canada-USA, that not only to enjoy this great game but to make the real inside into Ufa Arena.
The game was over with Canada beats USA 2:1

#russia #hockey #wjhc

This Sunday we have visited Maslenitsa, a huge folk holiday of the Winter farewell that Russians widely celebrate in the last week before the Great Lent.

Maslenitsa is also known as Butter Week or Pancake week. So one of the main things on this holiday is eating hot pancakes in almost all possible variations. Another traditional activities during Maslenitsa are sledding, snowball fights, folklore singing and dancing, games for the kids with prizes and gifts.

The culmination of the holiday is burning the Lady Maslenitsa!

All of these you can see in this episode of "Real Russia".

Even though originally it's pagan holiday, now it's actually nothing about religion but about an old Russian tradition. Just a great way to say "Good bye" to the Winter, to eat pancakes and spent the time on a folk celebration!

#russia #maslenitsa #folklore

Russian money. Russian rubles in banknotes and coins.

The last edition of Russian money which is legitimate at the moment in Russia was
made in 1997.

Russian rubles available as in a steel coins, as in a paper banknotes.

Coins are available in an amount of 1, 2, 5 and 10 Russian rubles.
All coins are almost the same but just have a different value and size. They all have just the amount of value at one side, and an image of two-headed eagle with a caption "Bank of Russia" and the year of stamping from another side.

Banknotes are available in amount of 10, 50, 100, 500, 1 000 and 5 000 Russian Rubles.
In differ from the coins, Russian banknotes are very different. They all have a different color schemes and images.


10 Russian Rubles (~$0.30).

Colors are dark-green and dark-brown.
The name of the city on a banknote is Krasnoyarks. The biggest cultural, economical and educational center in Eastern Siberia.
Front side: Bridge through Yenisey, one of the largest rivers in Russia. Paraskeva Pyatnica Chapel.
Back side: Krasnoyarsk Dam. It's 124 metre (407ft) high concrete gravity dam located on the Yenisey River about 30km upstream from Krasnoyarks.


50 Russian Rubles (~$1.60).

Color is light-blue.
The name of the city on a banknote is Saint Petersburg. Actually, the second capital of Russia. Also known as Northern capital of Russia.
Front side: The sculpture that is facing Neva River on the background of Peter and Paul Fortress.
Back side: The Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns.


100 Russian Rubles (~$3.00).

Color is reddish-brown.
The name of the city on a banknote is Moscow. The capital of Russia.
Front side: Quadriga on the background of The Bolshoy Theatre.
Back side: The Bolshoy Theatre.


500 Russian Rubles (~$15.00).

Color is violet.
The name of the city on a banknote is Archangelsk. An administrative center of an Archangelisk's Oblast. It lies on both tanks of the Northern Dvina River near it exit into the White Sea in the North of European part of Russia.
Front side: Statue of Peter the First, sailing ship and Marine and River Station.
Back side: The Soloversky Monastery.


1 000 Russian Rubles (~$30.00).

Color is turquoise.
The name of the city on a banknote is Yaroslavl. One of the oldest Russian cities based in 11th century. In 2010, Yarovlavl celebrated it's millenium - 1000's birthday. Unfortunately, it's also the city from where was the KHL hockey team "Lokomotiv" that totally died in a plane crash at the 7th of September, 2011.
Front side: Yaroslav The Wise, Spasso-Preobrazhensky Monastery and Herb of Yaroslavl.
Back side: Saint John The Baptist Church.


5 000 Russian Rubles (~$150.00).

Color is orange.
The name of the city on a banknote is Khabarovsk. The administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. The second largest city in the Russian Far East after Vladivostok.
Front side: The Statue of General-Gouvernor Nikolay Muraviev-Amursky.
Back side: Bridge through Amur river.


All Russian banknotes are protected with a different features like moire pattern, water marks, infrared marks, magnet marks, relief captions, micro perforations, micro text, color changing paint and others.


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Don't forget that if you have some extra rubles or dollars available, you can always send them for the sake of "Real Russia" development to our PayPal address - realrussiacrowdfund@gmail.com

#russia #money