In what is becoming International Blame Videogames For Everything Day, sections of the Russian media have linked Monday's terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport in Moscow to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
The 2009 shooter famously featured a ...
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I'm not sure this is what people behind reality augmentation using the Web and technology had in mind when they came up with augmented reality but increasingly it is being used in new and interesting ways.
In this ...
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Damn those Russians are industrious folks which you can see in these pics of a home-made Hummer that apparently can do everything from climb mountains to drive underwater. Not menation make a hellva cup of tea it ...
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Blogs are buzzing today about the odd, suspiciously perfect spiral shape seen in the night sky over Norway on December 8th-9th.
Although many people cried "shopped!" almost immediately, the image was carried across the Norwegian news from several ...
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They don't do anything by halves in Russia, including drink driving. This driver is case in point:
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[UPDATE: Turns out this story came from a dodgy translation, and that Modern Warfare 2 has not been banned in Russia after all. Activision clarified the matter with VG247, stating, "Reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ...
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The following video is real life frogger. The part though where you shouldn't watch comes when he doesn't quite win at the sport. Safe for work, but not for the rest.
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On Monday a burst water conduit that leads to the turbines at the Russian Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in Siberia has left 12 confirmed dead with an additional 64 people still missing. Vitaly Zubakin, an ...
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A Russian Navy ship fired a shell at an apartment block in Vladivostok Friday, the second friendly fire incident for the Russian Navy this year.
The shell landed just feet from a 9 story building in a residential ...
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A Russian woman has set a new world record for vagina lifting....and yes, before you ask, we're not making this up, and yes, the Guinness Book of Records keeps a tally on the record.
42 year old Tatiata ...
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Russia has produced some interesting things over the years, and bears playing ice hockey would be fairly high up on the list.
This footage of bears ice hockey match shows how...well....bears play ice hockey. I'm not really sure ...
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The popularity of the show Britain's Got Talent has spawned a range of licensed local versions and knock offs, and Russia is no different.
Like its western counterparts, Russia's Got Talent involves a large variety of contestants trying ...
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Steampunk can be fun, renovating a bathroom can be an enjoyable challenge but all this type of do-it-yourself projects pales in comparison to this psychotic Russian who built his own electric chair. Not only ...
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Just about everyone these days has some idea of what the term FAIL whale means when it comes up in conversation. It is one of those rare terms that while meant for something specific, in the case ...
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The above chart is said to be an entry level test for the Russian army. According to English Russia, the instructions read:
Six questions that help to identify any hidden psychological diseases young soldier might. If the ...
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This Russian ad for a chocolate and vanilla icecream flavor has a few people upset, like Alex Leo at the Huffpost:
This, of course, is an ad for an ice cream bar that swirls chocolate inside of vanilla. ...
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A Russian man had choked to death on a pancake shortly after winning a pancake eating competition.
The 48-year old Boris Isayev won the competition as part of celebrations for pancake week (Maslenitsa.) The festival celebrates the end ...
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It is always a good idea when trying to give someone who speaks a different language a cute little gift that has a saying in their language on it that you get the translation correct. It is ...
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Canadian fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers near Canadian air space last week, only hours prior to a visit from US President Barack Obama.
The Canadian F-18's intercepted two Russian TU-95 Bear bomber aircraft 118 miles (190 kms) ...
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No country is fully immune from the global economic crisis, but some places react differently to others.
In Russia, the economic crisis has meant that less people are drinking Vodka, the national drop. Stockpiles of Vodka in ...
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Reports in Russia are suggesting that Russian giant Onexim Group is in talks to acquire Forbes.
Yakov Sadchikov of Quintura who translated the reports notes that Onexim Group is one of Russia’s largest private investment funds with investments ...
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In what is being reported as the worst submarine accident in nearly a decade 20 people died on the Nerpa, an Akula-class attack sub, during sea trials in the Pacific.
According to the report from BBC News the ...
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