Here’s the most exciting thing the Russian people have ever seen outside their window since that tornado passed through Moscow that one time. Behold: It’s a crow… snow-tubing off the roof… repeatedly. Watch it and be amazed! Read more »
Of all the insane daredevil antics we’ve seen Slavs pull for YouTube attention wanks, this might be the nuttiest. See young droogs and a lanky vixen scale the shaking steel ropes of Kiev’s Moskovskyi Bridge. No safety. Just a POV fish-eyed cam for nauseating views from 390 ft. Read more »
It’s been too long since some crazy Russian kids chucked that screeching chick off a projects building with a DIY bungee cord. Thankfully, this prime cut of videotaped insanity has surfaced and it looks like a hundred showboating daredevils are jumping off a bridge somewhere in Russia, in unison. Read more »
German police recovered a 400-year-old Caravaggio painting estimated at $100 million, sloppily sliced out of its frame two years ago from Odessa’s museum by a gang of “international” (mostly Ukrainian) art thieves. It was Ukraine’s most expensive painting, authenticated by the Soviets in the ’50s, but might not even been a “real” Caravaggio. Either way, it’s all tattered and chipped to hell now.
No amount of literary pretensions can ever make a plug of the Slav ‘Jersey Shore’ sound non-moronic, unless our preferences of dill, bumper stickers and non-translatable slang are somehow profound cultural revelations. Sorry, New Yorker. You fail. Read more »
So, about that Russian la-la-la-la-la-ling animatron you’ve been seeing everywhere: It’s actually quite a normal music video in proper Soviet context and Christoph Waltz has done a lovely version to send the meme off to rest. Please, get out of my head now. Read more »
Schlepping to attention among this year’s Tribeca Film Festival‘s documentary picks is a film featuring several major show-boating Russian mafioso. Read more »
Wow. The Financial Times has a ridiculously interesting article in today’s edition about the stray dog epidemic in Russia. Did you know that an estimated 35,000 strays roam the streets of Moscow? Yeah, neither did I! But wait, that’s not the interesting part. These strays are actually pretty damn smart and revered by locals. Hell, they even wander around in the city’s subway system. Read more »
So you think you’re having a bad day/week/life? Well, it can’t be any worse than the one this Russian guy is having after he crashed his forklift into a warehouse shelf, bringing down $150,000 worth of vodka and cognac in the process. Watch this and feel better about yourself in an instant: Read more »
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