The country of Russia recently made headlines after a riot sparked by the death of a Moscow soccer fan led to attacks targeting ethnic minorities, and thousands of arrests (but only a dozen actual charges). This civil unrest has prompted an increase in the police presence in certain parts of the country, and has also [...]
It has been over a month since I last shared some headline stories involving our Russian brethren, but this absence of news has not been for a lack of effort on my part. I check all my Russian news sources on a daily basis in search of the interesting, unusual, and unbelievable. I don’t know [...]
Today’s batch of feel-bad stories include a bill designed to deter corruption among government officials that sounds like a damn good idea, a crazy cannibal, a bad driver and even worse human being, and a sporting event that I never knew existed. Brand of Bribers Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party has suggested branding bribe takers with [...]
It’s time once again to check in with those mercurial Muscovites, and highlight some recent news stories that make our society seem normal by comparison. Grandmaul-y Hatchet A 73-year-old woman in Siberia, who hurled – is hurled the right word to describe a 73 year-old throwing an object? I could see toss or lob, maybe [...]
