From Russia With Pain XI

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 [...]

From Russia With Pain VIII

(This is how Russian kids celebrate the end of their high school career – it looks like this youngster’s graduation present consisted of alcohol and anabolic steroids) It’s time for me to pull back the iron curtain, and unveil the newest batch of crazy stories from the Kremlin: “Pancaked“ The winner of a pancake-eating contest [...]

From Russia With Pain VII

Mr. Smith has the morning off while he makes like Judge Dredd, so I am going to take this unwanted opportunity to fill you in on the latest bizarre news stories from our братья and сестры in northern Eurasia: A Fake Tooth For an Eye A fight between two medics in Moscow ended with a tragedy.  The [...]