Komsomol'skaya station on the Kol'tsevaya Liniya of the Moscow Metro. This is one of the most impressive stations on Moscow's metro system. 23 October 2006

Believed to be the most luxurious one with its huge chandeliers and marble (1935).

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Moscow metro. Time compression in Komsomolskaya. Make with MonkeyJam. Московский метрополитен, станция Комсомольская

View on Komsomolskaya Square, Moscow.

Line 5 train arriving at and departing from Komsomolskaya station.

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7 Annual Big Press Conference Part 2 February 14,2008 President of Russia V.Putin The Kremlin,Moscow We are also well aware of the problems. Chief among them is inflation. We have not yet managed to bring inflation fully under control. Inflation grew by more than what we had planned for. Our forecast was for inflation of 8.5 percent, but instead we had 11.9 percent. Bringing down the inflation rate in this and the coming years is one of our biggest priorities, a priority for the entire Government and national leadership, especially for those in charge of the economy. That is all that I wanted to say for a start. I will not tire you with long monologues and numbers. Please, begin with your questions. PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SECRETARY ALEXEI GROMOV: Good afternoon colleagues, lets begin now. KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA NEWSPAPER: Your second presidential term is coming to an end now. What do you think was your biggest achievement and your greatest failure over these years? VLADIMIR PUTIN: I do not think there were any serious failures. To start with the second part of your question, we reached the goals we set and we accomplished what we set out to do. There are some things we probably could have done more effectively. I just mentioned the inflation problem, for example. Inflation could have been lower perhaps if we had concentrated our efforts more intensively on this task, mobilising not only the countrys economic officials but also public and political organisations. Why do I say this? Because inflation is an issue that concerns state spending, and the whole issue is about ensuring that all state spending is justified, for if we let spending get out of hand and do not keep it under control it inevitably has an impact on the inflation situation, as we all know. But we also need to look at the objective facts. The inflow of private capital that I mentioned before is partly speculative in nature (I am not using this term in any negative sense). These are people playing the markets and they have every right to do so. Moreover, the Russian economy has to a certain extent become something of a haven for international capital. We offer a stable economic and political situation and this attracts capital. But all of this has an impact on inflation, as does the large number of petrodollars. Overall, the Central Bank and the Government are managing to keep the situation under control, though there probably are additional steps we could have taken. In the fight against poverty, as I already mentioned, the dynamic is positive. Here too we could have done more, especially as far as pensioners are concerned. The way that pensions for people who worked during the Soviet period, that is, until 1991, were calculated was not the best method. We will have to come back to this problem and take real steps to improve the pension situation for our citizens. As for the results we have achieved and the things I see as positive, I will not list everything now. I think that our results are well known and I have already spoken about them on past occasions. Our country was not united and we did not even have a real national anthem. Each of the different regions had its own constitution that differed from the Constitution of the Russian Federation. We restored Russias territorial integrity and unity. We rebuilt the state. Through our efforts peoples incomes have reached and even surpassed pre-reform levels. Mostly importantly of all, we have rebuilt the Russian economy, placing it on an absolutely new market-based foundation. We are making steady progress towards becoming one of the worlds economic leaders. Only a few countries have achieved such rapid growth in securities and assets over the last twenty years. These are above all Asian countries such as Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore and also to some extent Thailand and China. Russia has now joined these ranks and this is a great achievement. As for my personal feeling, I am not ashamed to stand before the people who twice gave me their votes and elected me to be President of the Russian Federation. I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results. NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA NEWSPAPER: When you were first elected president you likened yourself to a manager hired by the people to run the huge Russia Inc. Corporation. In your heart, do you think you are a good manager, have you always made only right decisions, and do you think the client is happy with your work? VLADIMIR PUTIN: I more or less just answered this question. I am happy with the results of my work. I think that the client, the Russian people, the voters who twice gave me their votes in presidential elections, is satisfied overall. This is backed up by public opinion surveys and by the current level of support expressed for the President of the Russian Federation.

Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. The shark-looking creature was producing strange squeaky sounds. The fishermen originally believed that they had caught an alien and decided to film the monster with the help of a cell phone camera. The footage clearly shows the creatures' head, body and long tail. The bizarre catch was weighing almost 100 kilograms, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reports. However, ufologists and scientists were greatly disappointed when they found out that the fishermen had eaten the monster. They said that they were not scared of the creature so they decided to use it as food. One of the men said that it was the most delicious dish he had ever eaten.

The first Metro line in Russia that began to function in Moscow in 1935. The Kurskaya, Komsomolskaya, Revolution Square and other stations, designed in the 1930s-1950s by the country's best architects, are regarded now as architectural monuments. The name of "underground palaces" of Moscow befits these magnificent architectural structures decorated with a truly fabulous luxury. Today the Moscow Metro has twelve lines with an overall length of 275.6 kilometres and numbers of 170 stations.

Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. The shark-looking creature was producing strange squeaky sounds. The fishermen originally believed that they had caught an alien and decided to film the monster with the help of a cell phone camera. The footage clearly shows the creatures' head, body and long tail. The bizarre catch was weighing almost 100 kilograms, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reports. However, ufologists and scientists were greatly disappointed when they found out that the fishermen had eaten the monster. They said that they were not scared of the creature so they decided to use it as food. One of the men said that it was the most delicious dish he had ever eaten. Chairman of the Anomalous Phenomena Service, Andrei Gorodovoi, stated that the creature, which he could see on the short video, was an anomalous being. However, it could hardly be described as an extraterrestrial form of life, he added. Gorodovoi rejected the version about mermaids too. "There are many legends about mermaids living in the Sea of Azov. Nevertheless, specialists of the Service for Anomalous Phenomena have never confirmed those fairytales. On the other hand, we do not deny the possibility of other forms of life in the Sea of Azov," the ufologist sad. A spokesman for the Rostov-based zoo, Alexander Lipkovich, contacted local ichthyologists and asked their opinion about the Azov alien. "They said that the fish bears resemblance to a sturgeon. It was an extremely interesting individual. I have never seen anything like this before in my whole life," the specialist said.

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- "A passenger jet caught fire early Sunday, exploded and crashed into railway tracks in the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 people on board." You are not a journalist to take care of your own safety. And you are not a professional to protect your own behind. But you are there, no matter what, to TELL and not to comment. Let the commentators do their job, you just TELL what they comment on and about. CNN failed. You are not a news broadcaster to preferr 24 deaths over 88. And you are not in a media business to shut up. But you are there speak even though these 88 dead won't bring you as much of a profit as the Georgian turmoil. BBC failed. While CNN is scarcely [not even] trying to build a story on the footage of the Komsomolskaya Pravda and Vetsi[24], livejournal users do their own thinking and research.

Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. The shark-looking creature was producing strange squeaky sounds. The fishermen originally believed that they had caught an alien and decided to film the monster with the help of a cell phone camera. The footage clearly shows the creatures' head, body and long tail. The bizarre catch was weighing almost 100 kilograms, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reports. However, ufologists and scientists were greatly disappointed when they found out that the fishermen had eaten the monster. They said that they were not scared of the creature so they decided to use it as food. One of the men said that it was the most delicious dish he had ever eaten.

"Georgians can't live here anymore, in Abkhazia they can only die". V. Smir, daily paper "Gagra". Russian newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", 19.12.1992 This "individual", (today presumably the "Minister of Agriculture of Abkhazia" - just imagine what kind of harvest he's used to), whose ancestors rolled into Georgian land like an avalanche from the remote caves they were kicked out of by more advanced species, (obviously because they couldn't resist practicing cannibalism), boldly declared in a huge Russian newspaper that the Georgians' fate in their own land was sealed, that he, the new Goebbels of apsua-adig "make" and his ilk were going to initiate not just ethnic cleansing of the native people, but actually commit genocide. And Russia of so called "intelligentsia" applauded while Russia of the vodka-marinated Boris N. Yeltzin supported the campaign "Georgia without Georgians" financially and militarily (14 billion rubles + heavy artillery, air support and instructors, plus total availability of the Russian military contingent to kill as many Georgians as possible. Payback with the Georgian property.) Russia of the "Gaspipe Rambo" Vladimir V. Putin is happily continuing the legacy of its defunct "democrat". The most despicable atrocities against mainly Georgian civilians have been committed by so called "abkhazian" (actually apsua-adig) gangs, armenian settlers, russian-cozak mercenaries and North-Caucasian GRU engaged terrorists. They did play soccer in the stadium of the town of Gagra. Kicking severed human heads. They did advertise selling "Georgian meat". They did slaughter not only unarmed civilian men and youth. They shot, decapitated, raped, beat to death old men and women (one of the countless victims of apsua-adig nazis is a 103 yrs old woman, a healthy and very bright lady, considering her age, tortured and strangled to death; another woman, 73 yrs old, was hanged in her own yard by an armenian dashnak scumbag, who then occupied her house). Today they live in the houses of those slaughtered victims. They pick fruits from the trees where the owners of the gardens were hanged. Without shame, without any remorse whatsoever, without any fear that someday they'll have to pay. There's a very affordable price for the dirty, blood-soaked life of each and every one of those ignorant, frustrated barbarians with huge inferiority complex and sociopathic delusion. But when justice comes knocking on their doors, it won't be a case of "an eye for an eye". Because they'll never be able to pay for what they did. Lists of the war crime victims from www.abkhazeti.info

Komsomolskaya pravda production

Komsomolskaya Pravda production

Há duas semanas, os pescadores da vila Semibalki da região de Rostov na Rússia capturaram no Mar de Azov um monstro de dois metros de altura parecido com um tubarão mas que dava pios, noticia o jornal Komsomolskaya Pravda. De início os pescadores pensaram que tinham capturado um alienígena verdadeiro e filmaram o ser desconhecido por celular. O vídeo mostra cabeça, corpo e cauda longa do animal pescado que pesou cerca de 100 quilos Mas infelizmente para cientistas e ufólogos russos os pescadores comeram sua pesca. Dizem que nunca provaram algo tão delicioso. Segundo o chefe do serviço de fenómenos anómalos de Rostov, Andrei Gorodovoi, o monstro pescado é uma anomalia. Mas não é um alienígena nem uma seréia. As lendas sobre as seréias no Mar de Azov existem no local há muito tempo mas nunca foram confirmadas pelos especialistas do serviço de fenómenos anómalos. O director adjunto do jardim zoológico de Rostov, Aleksandr Lipkovich, disse que o ser é parecido com um esturjão mas que é um exemplar muito interessante.

Time-lapse cab-view on tram line from Lesnaya to Komsomolskaya, route 7

Metro station Komsomolskaja on the circle line (number 5) in the typical Stalin era design just after the morning rush hours.

During a speech at the 15th World Editors Forum in Goteborg, Sweden, Garry Kasparov, leader of The Other Russia, an opposition political party, addressed subjects such as press freedom and the political climate for journalists in today's Russia. Immediately following his address, Vladimir Sungorkin, the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, the number one tabloid in Russia stood up and invited Kasparov to speak in Russia about these issues. The video shows Vladimir's offer being translated by Eugene Abov, the general manager of GIPP, the Association of Independent Russian Publishers. According to Kasparov, the atmosphere in Russian newsrooms is one of caution because of the current political situation in Russia. The murders of Russian journalists such as Anna Politkovskaja have received great media coverage outside of Russia. But according to Kasparov, these cases did not receive the same attention in the Russian press. You can also see the coverage on the website of The Other Russia, which picked up the video. More video reports from the World Editors Forum at http://www.editorsweblog.org

71-608K №4107 (route №50) driving on Komsomolskaya Sq. This tram has taken part in competition of professional skill of Moscow's tram drivers (command of Oktyabrskoe depot).

Tatra T3 №2846 on Komsomolskaya Sq.

71-608K №4055 driving on Komsomolskaya Sq.

The workday morning. Enormous crowd is creeping to the escalator, entering Moscow Metro station Komsomol'skaya from the Yaroslaw'skiy railway station. The enter to the escalator is too narrow, and the crowd is too great! It's a real hardcore!!

Tatra T3 №2836 tram driving on Komsomolskaya Square.