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Meet the Ukrainian Activist Who Raises Money to Buy Supplies for the Ukrainian Army
Meet Yuri Kasyanov, a Ukrainian activist who raises money from ordinary people to buy supplies for the Ukrainian army and risks his life to deliver supplies to the front lines.
Raiding an Online Archive of Weird Russian Photographs
Snooping around the back alleys of the web last month, I found myself in a Russian unsecured directory, where the residents of a region called Karelia back up all their files.
Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine (Dispatch Thirteen)
Residents of Crimea went to sleep in the Ukraine and woke up in Russia
Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine
Russian commandos stormed the Moskva Hotel in Simferopol, and nobody really knows why. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky tries to figure out if the troops were sent on a manhunt, or on a mission to intimidate members of the press.
Why Are the Russians Taking Greenpeace's "Pirates" So Seriously?
A pirate is typically one of two things: either a sailor with bad dental hygiene whose likeness is occasionally used to market rum, or a Somali with an RPG and a predilection for robbing the crews of international cargo ships. They are not normally...
Meet the Gay Russian Teenager Using Twitter to Combat Homophobia
Apart from activists protesting in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, most gay Russians have attempted to mask their identity, making it difficult for Westerners to know what it’s really like to be gay in Russia. But one gay Russian teenager is changing this...
God's Gift: The Eerie Soviet Military Complex Hidden in the Czech Republic
There’s a little bit of the Soviet empire left in the middle of the Czech Republic, but it’s abandoned, decaying, and almost completely forgotten.
The Asteroid Flyby and Russian Meteorite Conspiracy Theories Are Terrible
There's just something about asteroids and meteorites that really brings out the weird beards and sensationalist news reports.
Ones and Zeros: Ethics of Hacking Insulin Pumps and Child Pornographers
_Somewhere soon the world's most expensive money shot will be filmed_ h3. ONE: "Using stem cells, artificial sperm has been created":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8682142/Stem-cells-used-to-make-artificial-sperm.html (Telegraph...