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Pictures: race of Putin’s guards
englishrussia.com — These are photos from the race of Russian president ’s guards racing competing to each other in order to prove who can drive governmental guard cars better. In winter, with little to no visitors they ride on circles, fully armed with machine guns and flashing lights on, on the same cars they use to guard Mr. Putin.
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- flowaus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16No vid :(
- dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13yeah but im going to go ahea and guess the vw did not place first
- snakesonasam, on 10/12/2007, -19/+9in soviet russia car drives you
- Fateftw, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
- snakesonasam, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5dont put in a dugg mirror link if the site hasnt crashed yet
- SickFinga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9For anyone who is wondering, that boxy 1980-ties looking limo is a Russian ZiL-41047
http://www.amo-zil.ru/zil_eng/66.html#view - laplacian, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2some of the worst pics i've ever seen of a "race" in my life. probably spam.
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1@laplacian
Go to YouTube if you won't to see a race. Pictures can record the motion required to see a race. - r0b0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@scott1
How do you confuse want for won't? The don't even have a similar meaning, also the pronunciation is very different. - ricksite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There is a video. You just have to import the 800 photos into a video editing package as an image sequence. For the old school types, print them out and make a flip book.
- coit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Are all the cars german? Quite a few Mercedes for sure.
- LonesomeFighter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36one car had a guy with a AK-47 sticking out of the top, is that cheating?
- DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Russia is so cool. Anyone up for a trip to Moscow? I'll buy.
- kefs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Hi there. My name is Chris Hansen.. Would you care to explain what you're doing in Moscow with a 13-year old girl...
- visigodo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Chris Hansen you're name is familiar. by any chance did you ever live in New York?
- ummagummas08, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Woah cool! Pictures of cars that were possibly racing, without any way to discern who won or not, Awesome.
/sarcasm- tpaine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3my thoughts exactly ... if there was ever a story that need videos instead of pictures this was it .... proper grammar would have been nice too.
buried as lame - 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6There is no proof they were moving, let alone racing!
- snakesonasam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1except for teh fact that mud was being kicked up your right there is no proof
- FiP0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm begin to hate those "/sarcasm" bit... it's akin to "yeah I'll do it... NOT!", which is, as everybody knows, the best joke in the known universe.
fake HTML, or whatever "/sarcasm" means, doesn't qualify as rhetorics.
- tpaine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3my thoughts exactly ... if there was ever a story that need videos instead of pictures this was it .... proper grammar would have been nice too.
- spyd3rweb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8why cant our president do something cool like have a offroad race with our military hummers for the benifit of aids or something.
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6too useful.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10He can't because he has to deal with "democracy" and "the free press". He's trying his hardest, though.
- SnowBladerX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Because the Hummers wouldn't make it to the end of the course :)
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yeah. Gas mileage is a bitch.
- Naughtyme, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1In Russia the cars race you
- SunDestroyer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Wow! Who would have thought the Russian Mafia were so competitive.
- Arkonnan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13What happens to the loser of the race, does he get poisoned as a warning to the others? ;p
- nigh7dagger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I don't know but I really wouldn't want to crash one of those doing that.
- l33tspam, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2http://englishrussia.com/images/guard_race/63.jpg
Does that look modified to any one else?- iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yes.
- snakesonasam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1it just looks staged not edited
- ryodoan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Other than a guy with a big smile and a machine gun sticking out of the roof? No.
- swift1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0u know they have 2 be bulletproof.
- night141, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no wai
- SonicBoom1000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6When I first read the title, I thought it was implying Putin hired a group of guards of all one race, and he was a racist...
- egyber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm not sure I buy the caption... It looks more like training. Makes more sense.
- fabDisaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1My guess.... a bunch of drunk russians playing demolition derby
- DexDoomsday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think I see The Stig...
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they were firing real rounds...you see the shells flying out in the last picture?
- unida767, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Why is grammar dead in this world. Correct spelling too. Makes me sad.
- bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I guess you'll be disappointed to hear that you missed a question mark on your first sentence, and the last two were fragments. What a bummer.
- SerifTheRobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, nice 4 wheel dirft with the ML.
- gubin09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Michael Schumacher could use a day job... and like Putin will be driving though the mud on a circular course to a state dinner
- neutrascrub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1look at all the housing in the background, it must smell like cabbage all the time
- Daedalus275, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Everywhere in Russia smells like cabbage.
- 13B1303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mmmmm sour kraut
- avisotin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Drifting in a 1960s car. Awesome.
- SebMCR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i for one, am extremely happy to see a beautiful zil still running, and in use in these dirty capitalist times. hark to me comrades
- dennisbier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sure its a fun thing to do, but it does say something about the Russian psyche that seems to persist through the ages http://weekendeconomist.blogspot.com/2007/02/28-oil-tsars-part-1.html
- spazzm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love the fact that the captcha at the bottom of the page is always "stalin", no matter how much you reload the page.
- RussianPilot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These photos have been taken from here:
http://www.fotoforum.ru/gonfso/2007
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