The inventor of the assault rifle Mikhail Kalashnikov has died at the age of 94 according to various reports coming from Russia. Mikhail Kalashnikov is know his design of the automatic rifle that become the world’s most popular and widely used weapons. Mikhail design was so simple that it was also relatively cheap to manufacture. Also since it was simple ... Read More »
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Eduard Khil aka Mr. Trololo dies in Russia
Eduard Khil was a beloved Soviet crooner who only won sudden international stardom two years ago when a 1976 video of him singing “trololo” instead of the song’s censored words became a global Internet hit. Khil, best known as Mr. Trololo, died Monday at age 77. He had been hospitalized in St. Petersburg since a stroke in early April that ... Read More »
No survivors found after Russian jet crashes in Indonesia
A rescue team found several bodies but no survivors on Thursday in the wreckage of a Russian plane that crashed into a mountain in Indonesia during an exhibition flight with 45 people on board. Russia said it would take part in the investigation of the crash of its first all-new passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union, a ... Read More »