Playing personal music through speakers in public has got to be one of the clearest indicators of low intelligence.
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The video is apparently from Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, but some areas of Buryatia & Transbaikal look very similar. Nothing but the vast blue sky as far as the eye can see, with clouds so large & low to the ground it feels like you can touch them with your hand. I miss it so much.
This looks like it belongs in a studio ghibli film nitter.app/ashkirvs/status/168777…
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The Mongolian clothing brand “Michel & Amazonka”, known for designing the Olympic team uniforms, has unveiled their Lunar New Year collection.
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Also the idiotic assumption that just because someone is recording themselves doing anything other than pulling out dead bodies from rubble or burying their family members means they are faking it.
Time doesn't stop in a warzone. This could be the man's last meal, & he knows it.
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Mentioned this before, but one of the funniest moments to me in Tatarstan was seeing a blond, blue-eyed kid running around the restaurant, and his dad (whom I had initially mistaken for a Russian) calling him out: “Stop and come here, Tamerlane!”
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Sure, but there's nothing even remotely rich about the picture in question. It's bread, olives, and crushed herbs with some oil.
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Vignettes of daily life in Mongolia by documentary photographer Ayuna Shagdurova.
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Underrated fact that 99% of Soviet and Russian films are easily available online. Case in point: Mosfilm, one of Russia's largest and oldest studios, has been uploading its entire film archive on Youtube for free:
piped.video/c/Mosfilm_eng/
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The ultimate forbidden dish is kopalhen, a delicacy of the Russian Arctic. The natives would pick a large and fat deer, starve it or several days to cleanse the intestines, then strangle it and leave the carcass to ferment in the swamp for at least half a year. Would you risk it?
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If you can't draw a distinction between blasting music INSIDE your car vs on the streets, parks, and public transit then I can't help you here lady
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Tibetan names for Russia, India, and China:
Russia (Yellow country, རྒྱ་སེར, rgyaser)
India (White country, རྒྱ་དཀར, rgyadkar)
China (Black country, རྒྱ་ནག, rgyanag)
Question to Tibetans: were other countries assigned colours as well, or just these three?
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Mongolia has the biggest selection of dairy products I've seen. Dried curd cheese, camel ghee, various types of yogurt, sour cream, milk.
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A Georgian horseman from the Caucasian Squadron of the Imperial Convoy poses with a Native American from the Sioux tribe.
From Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich's journey to the United States. Nebraska, 1871–1872.
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A thread of works by Gennady Pavlishin, a criminally underrated Russian artist & ethnographer from Khabarovsk:
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Thread of works by Mongolian artist Baatarzorig Batjargal:
ALT Law of Nature, 2019
ALT White Lion, 2018
ALT Smoke, 2017
ALT Wolf Totem
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The cat's demeanour is more graceful and dignified than that of some humans. Seeing it restricted to a life indoors just feels so wrong.
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Asked for an obscure book, the owner took me to the basement
"We have 10 more storage units that look exactly like this"
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Yesterday I was reminded to write about a long-forgotten but nonetheless remarkable event that had taken place during the Russian Civil War in Eastern Sibеria.
A thread about the first (and last) Buddhist theocratic state in Trаnsbaikal and the man behind it:
ALT Lubsan-Samdan Tsydenov, the self-proclaimed "Tsar-Despot" of the Kudun theocratic state with his heir Dorzhi Badmaev. Kizhinga, c. 1919
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This is a Finno-Ugric/Tatar man from the Volga region
16th century crimean vizir watching the ruthenian serf he captured in a slaving raid become chief consort to suleiman the magnificent and the most powerful woman in the ottoman empire while he still has to manage tax collection in the northern steppe
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That's fine lol I was talking about dudes who play music on maximum volume in parks and public transport. It's usually shitty hip hop and pop music too.
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Khan Tengri Peak in Kazakhstan. Unreal that it looks exactly like a Roerich painting.
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My grandma only recognizes three races in the world: “the Buryat” (any Asiatic), “the Russian” (any Europoid), and “the Jew” (anyone a shade darker than the Russian and who does not fit into the other two categories)
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Born to be a sensitive young man, forced to be ZOG's #1 enemy....
I'm not into cinema and visual arts but when it comes to poetry and novels, I'm not just a typical audience. #Books
#AvidReader
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I can't imagine a politician from literally any other country admitting to something as insane as this
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Since this got quite a bit of attention, I cannot help but share some more of Michel & Amazonka work. They do minimalist style well too. Here's the traditional Mongolian dress, deel, adapted for modern wear.
The Mongolian clothing brand “Michel & Amazonka”, known for designing the Olympic team uniforms, has unveiled their Lunar New Year collection.
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Wait until you read Çelebi's account of the annual witch fight between the Circassian and Abkhazian vampires:
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In the Donbass war in 2014, people were still going out to bars and internet cafes, even despite artillery shelling:
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“Temptation of Christ” by Manish Soni, 2013-2014. An interpretation of the biblical account of Christ's temptation by Satan.
Part of the “Issanama” series, which draws inspiration from the 16th-century Mughal “Hamzanama”. Satan here is depicted as a ferocious white dragon.
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This dude is like that Japanese soldier who hid in the Filipino jungle for 30 years, refusing to believe that the war was over.
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Racist anthropology twitter has done more for the preservation & popularization of Amerindian cultures than all the decolonization activists combined.
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RedNote is making me wonder what kind of app the Soviet Union might have produced if it had survived into the 21st century somehow
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We live in an era characterized by complete mediocrity, where the highest possible aspiration for a man or woman is to “be a good human”. There are no grand dreams or ambitions beyond that — just “be good”.
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rode the Moscow subway once and witnessed every single phenotype that has existed on the Eurasian steppe from ancient times until now
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You know how when you go to a MENA country and they have hundreds of spices at the bazaar? Siberians are like that with tea.
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Some recommended readings for those interested in learning more about Mongol-Muslim relations. I've included these and more in the ‘further reading’ section at the end of the essay.
The greatness of a civilisation is measured not by the absence of challenges, but by its capacity to identify, respond, and adapt to them. Islamic civilisation adapted to the Mongol conquests and reached greater heights just a few centuries later.
Read more in our latest essay on Kasurian. Link in profile.
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16th-century sandstone from Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia. Can someone help me decipher the Arabic inscription on this one?
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Entrance to the Great Mosque of Lhasa, built during the reign of Emperor Kangxi in 1716. The mosque's name is inscribed in Arabic, Tibetan, and Chinese characters.
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Fun fact: for the longest time, the lake did not have a name, so the locals called it “Kheled-Zâram” after a lake in the Lord of the Rings.
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I do this periodically because it's so much fun
dated a guy once who instead of insta scrolling he'd open maps, zoom in randomly, tap on a location and browse through: about photos and reviews
random day on the metro he shows me a petrol pump in Moldova says woah that's how petrol pumps and highways are in Moldova???
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A bus stop in the shape of the traditional Kyrgyz hat (ak-kalpak). Kyrgyz ASSR, 1980s.
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People losing their minds and accusing the guy of all sorts of mortal sins over what is probably a horse head Mongolian swastika tattoo is so funny to me
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Sergei Yukhimov's medieval-style illustrations of The Lord of the Rings:
ALT Gandalf and the Witch King at the gates of Minas Tirith
ALT Gandalf arriving at Hobbiton
ALT The Death of Boromir
ALT The White Tree of Minas Tirith
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The way Kazakhs and other Central Asians must feel when they are labeled as ‘Mongol’ because their culture is also steppe-coded is probably similar to how Slavs feel when they are mistaken for Russians
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My friend complains about Indians dancing in a park next to her apt at 3 a.m. so I know what you mean lol
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I've seen Eastern European families who are guaranteed ten times poorer than this American woman, yet they still manage to feed their children decent meals instead of this disgusting looking slop
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Nurd Kamal is the world's northernmost mosque, situated in Norilsk. It was commissioned by Tatar Muslim in 1993.
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Turkish waiter knew I speak Russian even before I opened my mouth lol. Said that there's something about Russian-speaking Asians that distinguishes them from the rest - manners, certain facial features, etc.
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