Here are a few short and not sweet articles from the land of vodka and mail-ordered honeys. Man Goes Ham on His Wife A Russian pensioner is facing up to two years in jail for accidentally shooting his wife dead as he was preparing to kill a pig, the Investigative Committee regional directorate said on [...]
It’s been a struggle over the last week or so because I have been without Internet service, and it looks like that will continue for the next couple of weeks. When you’re subjected to a life with no cable or Internet, it starts to make you feel like you’re living in a desolate wasteland where [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
