Tag: Russia
Four domains were blocked by Russian ISPs this weekend, including LiveJournal.com. According to new amendments signed into law by President Putin on January 30th and enacted on February 1st, access to websites can be temporarily blocked for any singular reported post containing “extremist information threatening society and individuals” under the orders of Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for […]
Here are some photos from Samara, Russia of the 10th annual international winter motor-sled “Snowdogs” competition that we’ve never heard off. The motorized sleds vary from from what is basically a motorcycle minus one wheel plus some soldered-on metal ski appendages to retro-futuristic, minimal racing bikes to… is that guy riding an airplane engine? It’s […]
A 53-year-old former teacher was outraged when his 67-year-old friend insisted that “the only real literature is prose” in an argument, so he stabbed him to death, RIA reports. A poetry fan, the man fled the murder scene and was tracked down and arrested a few days later. He is being charged with murder. It was quite the […]
Keeping the fires of their post-prison fame alive, two members of Pussy Riot, recently released from labor camps, are coming to Brooklyn to play the Amnesty International’s Bringing Human Rights Home concert at Barclays Center on February 5. ‘We are happy to support Amnesty International’s work on behalf of human rights and political prisoners,’ said Nadezhda […]
Yesterday, oligarch mom, socialite and pretend art person Dasha Khukova has been featured in an editorial on a Russian site Bruno 247, highlighting her achievements in the art world and as editor of Garage Magazine. Also, her taste in art furniture, apparently. The editorial photograph shows Dasha Zhukova eloquently nested upon a chair made to […]
After the European Union criticized Russia for censoring the press and tenaciously jailing Kremlin opposition, the Russian foreign ministry retaliated with a report of their own, highlighting EU’s own “inadequacies.” It’s hilarious. As highlighted by Buzzfeed, the report (sloppily translated here) is full of double-speak and contradictions and accuses the European Union of “aggressive propaganda of homosexual love.” In re-translation: […]
“My story is about something really beast-like, wild and dirty inside these pretty creatures and how it suddenly comes out,” photographer Sasha Mademuaselle tells DAZED. There are hundreds of photos, many channeling that wild something, reminiscent of every big party in every big place, but what ties them together are the chosen details — the […]
Here are some photos of Russian military doing things with their drones, in a completely unposed matter, despite that second slide looking like a Wes Anderson still. Russia’s Ministry of Defense put them up on their website, with a glowing article boasting about their currently-Kolomna-based Center for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 30 years old and 180 military personnel strong. Ah, […]
“Krokodil” is the street-name for a concoction of gunk to democratize opioid-making. It’s in the news again because it made it to America and, allegedly, New York. We have the “Heroin Highway,” so why bother? Why try for yourself, when every news report is showing the stuff melting limbs? Why does Krokodil specifically cause people to rot? Chemically, we’re […]
Krokodil! It’s that drug you cook from cheap dirty opiates, gasoline and rubber, and then you inject it, and you feel like you did heroin sort of, and then your skin rots off, Vice films you, and then you die in Russia! Or is it… New York’s hottest new club drug? Reasonably, the DEA does not […]
