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The head of Russia’s media – a man basically hand-picked by Vladimir Putin to fulfil the role of unofficial propaganda minister – mentioned somewhat casually during a news show on Sunday night that Russia could “turn turn the U.S. into radioactive dust.” You know, hypothetically speaking.
Liverpool paints Man U. Crimea vote result. Anti-Putin websites blocked. Local father turns in daughter for naked selfies. Aga Khan’s pricey divorce. Gates comments on Zuckerberg’s Whatsapp purchase. Stooges drummer dies. Germany loves Hitler again.
It is still unclear what Putin’s real ambition is in regards to Ukraine, but former United States National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, claims Putin “wants to rebuild the Soviet Union.”
The Sochi Winter Olympic games have up until now been a peaceful event. But the apparent calm on the surface was broken when Pussy Riot held an impromptu protest performance. Before they could even start to play, Cossack militia members interrupted the performance by beating the activists with whips.
Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov are free-hand urban climbers from Russia, and yes, they have bigger balls than you do. The following five minute video is a demonstration thereof, and the proper technique needed to illegally access and scale a 650 metre building.
Much has been made of Russia’s homophobic policies in the lead up to the 2014 Olympics.The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion have therefore taken it upon themselves to piss the Russians off with the stunning combination of lycra body suits, synchronised thrusting, Human League, and an Olympic sport.
Athens takes bronze with $15 billion. Beijing gets bumped down to silver with $40 billion. And the gold medal goes to Russia with $50 billion, making the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics the most expensive Olympics ever. Let’s meet a couple of Russia’s wealthiest individuals responsible for the bill.
If you aren’t planning on boycotting the Sochi Olympics this year amidst the many human rights issues and PR disasters, then feel free to bookmark this interactive calendar. This little thing allows you to sort the Sochi goings-on by sport and date. But don’t be duped by the Yank time zones.
With each passing day, what started as a simple protest in Kiev is swiftly morphing into a full-blown revolution. Anti-government protestors, initially protesting against widespread corruption, are now angered by a trade deal that tilted Ukraine back toward Russia and away from further integration with the European Union
Just about how many times have you had to go to toilet mid-conversation with your buddy, only to sit on the toilet and feel desperately alone?
The Winter Olympics in Russia have not yet begun, but the scandals surrounding the games in Sochi started a while ago. One would think that hosting an international event in a country run by a despotic, homophobic regime would be a bad idea. Washington Post journo, Charles Lane seems to think so – he called the olympics a “corrupt quadrennial exercise.”
Snowden became one of the world’s most wanted men when he leaked information about the extent of the surveillance power of the NSA.
Originally created as an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war, the Doomsday Clock still hangs on a board in the University of Chicago – and still ticks over with doomsday predictions.
The likelihood is that you will never need to practically re-create what you see in this video.
Why has this old guff resurfaced? An alien craft that landed in Russia in 1969 – and people are talking about it again now?
Russia may have a lot of political baggage – but this is just silly. A giant, two-storey designer Louis Vuitton suitcase was erected on the red square, just metres away from Vladimir Lenin’s sacred mausoleum – where the mummified body of the mastermind of the Bolshevik Revolution remains.
This video serves to confirm that Russian children, at least in 1997, are hard as nails. Here, two siblings take part in a friendly game of ‘see who can take down the deadly mammal’.
While a protestor nailed his testicles to a some cobblestones in Moscow, the same city hosted the Miss Universe 2013 pageant. In a night that glittered with tiaras, sequins and female objectification, Miss Universe Venezuela, Gabriela Isler, took home the grand prize.
Talk about putting your balls on the line. A Russian performance artist was hospitalised this Sunday, after he stripped naked and nailed his testicles to a cobblestone in a protest against the Kremlin’s crackdown on political rights.
There have been rumours about this sort of transaction happening for a while now – but sources in Russia have just confirmed that a deal has very definitely been sealed. What’s more, police have given the lucky lady the green light, claiming that the transaction, “does not fit into a description of the ‘Prostitution’ clause.” Really? It doesn’t?
Authorities in Russia claim a female suicide bomber attacked a bus in Southern Russia on Monday, killing at least six people in the deadliest bus blast in the region for nearly three years. The blast, which injured 28 people and killed six was captured by a nearby driver’s dashcam, and shows the blast almost instantly obliterating the bus.
Eight months ago, a massive meteor exploded over Russia (what with Russia being so frikkin’ massive, it was bound to happen), and the world was enraptured by images and videos of the alien rock streaking across the Russian sky. Locals were beside themselves, scouring the snowy landscape to find any little fragments of space-rock. But recently, a team of divers hit the motherload – and hauled up one of the biggest meteorites of all time.
A 20-year-old man has been discovered living alone in a mud hut in the wilderness of Siberia, three kilometres from the nearest settlement. The man states that until the date of his discovery, he had never known any humans apart from his parents, who are alleged to have brought him to the forest when he was four years old
Vladimir ‘Poots’ Putin has written an article for the New York Times. In it, he says the Syrian rebels are to blame for using chemical weapons. Interesting. Click to read his article..
So this is quite interesting. Out of nowhere Russia suggested that instead of attacking Syria, the international community should take control of Syria’s chemical weapons. Obama didn’t mind that. Neither does Syria, it seems..
Syrian war: all the latest. Russian lawmaker proposes banning gays from donating blood. 17-year-old causes massive US Open upset. African lions poisoned. Concourt dismisses DA’s ‘no confidence’ debate.
Booze advertising ban heads to cabinet. Zuma’s secret deal with dictator. Russia warns US to chill. Lance Armstrong settles with paper. Newspaper told to apologise to Pistorius. Facebook tops $40.
American reporter, James Kirchick played a clever trick on the the Russian RT news network, and was kicked off the air. He was supposed to be talking about Bradley Manning, and instead offered his opinion on the Russian government’s anti-gay laws.
Meanwhile in Russia, a 550-ton military hovercraft lands on a beach full of people… and everyone’s chilled. The craft in question one of the world’s largest hovercrafts, the Zubr. It can carry tanks and up to 400 troops when its fully loaded. But what it was doing on a crowded and apparently public beach, no […]