Although the rest of the world is denouncing the recent occupation of Russian forces in Ukraine, things took a turn for worse as bullets from Russian troops fly over the heads of Ukrainian soldiers. Escalation. Russian troops in control of…
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WASHINGTON — After Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine, the G8 might become the G7 again. Russia is set to host the next summit of the Group of Eight — the (mostly) western economic powers of the U.S., UK, France, Germany,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama warned Russia on Friday that military intervention in Ukraine would lead to “costs,” as tension with old foe President Vladimir Putin rose in a Cold War-style crisis. “We are now deeply concerned by reports…
Strident anti-LGBT activist Peter LaBarbera said on Wednesday that the U.S. should adopt its own Russian-style “gay propaganda” law that would outlaw any positive representation of non-heterosexual relationships. According to Right Wing Watch, LaBarbera was incensed at the inclusion of…
Shaun White pulled out of the Olympic slopestyle contest Wednesday, about 24 hours after being banged up on a course that riders are criticizing as unduly harsh. White issued a statement, saying that after much deliberation, he has decided to…
And when I say “cock”, I’m not talking about a rooster. She and her co-author spent most of that day trying to get police to take the incident seriously, but they — and some onlookers — were too busy laughing…
The city of Sochi has hired a private company to kill as many stray dogs as possible before the Winter Olympics, it has been claimed. Describing the animals as ‘biological trash’, the owner of the company has reportedly admitted being…
Via Yelp Turns out the mastermind behind the software leading to a massive Target breach that swiped credit card information from 110 million customers last November may have been none other than a (brilliant) teenager,according to investigators. Authorities suspect that an unnamed…
Two suicide bombings on consecutive days killed at least 31 people in southern Russia city, highlighting the terror threat Russia faces as it prepares to host the Winter Games in six weeks. A suicide bomber on a bus early Monday…
Russian actor/ex-Orthodox priest Ivan Okhlobystin, who’s famous for playing an ill-mannered recovering alcoholic on the medical sitcom Interny (a show sometimes described as “the Russian Scrubs”), has an interesting take on gay rights. He isn’t for them. In fact, he’d…
This is a big deal! Russia and Syria has not only agreed that Syria has chemical weapons, a huge deal was reached on Saturday calling for these chemical weapons to be accounted for and destroyed by the middle of 2014!…
President Obama continued his call for action in Syria whether it be military or diplomatic, and he called on the leaders of Russia and Syria to continue talks with Sec. Kerry on securing and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons. “We’re making…