As far as I can tell, there hasn’t been much in the way of crazy Russian news stories recently. Since my go-to site (MosNews) hasn’t updated their content in a couple of months, I have been searching the news wires on Google and Yahoo! daily for anything remotely amusing and/or outrageous involving our comrades across the pond. I did manage [...]
I’m happy to say that my favorite outlet for Russian current events (MosNews) has apparently paid their web host enough Rubles to get their site back up. From what I can tell, they haven’t had enough time to add any new stories since their hiatus, but luckily there are plenty of stories from the recent past to fill the void. Here are [...]
It’s time to take another look into some of Russia’s wild and crazy news stories from the past couple of weeks, courtesy of MosNews: Russian “coolant glutton” dies trying to break record After drinking 300 grams of anti-freezing liquid and chasing it down with coca-cola, Dmitry Butakov from the central Russian town of Lipetsk had only time to give a few interviews [...]
For the longest time, I didn’t think there was any culture crazier than the Japanese; their sense of humor and idea of entertainment is quite strange – and a little creepy. But in terms of crazy in the traditional sense, I think the good people in Russia have no equals. A little over a month [...]
