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The Russia Issue

Playstation Pirates

Russia is one of the world's largest pirate markets for electronic media. From music and DVDs to video games and software, Russia is ranked right up with world-leaders in piracy China and Indonesia. Fake shit is sold everywhere here!
Koba Khan
4.1.06
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TB in Russia

Tuberculosis is a contagious disease that spreads through the air just like the common cold. Someone with TB can cough or sneeze and infect others (10 to 15 people a year on average) with the bacteria known as bacilli.
John James, Antonia Wright
4.1.06
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Whores On Wheels

Moscow is awash in whores. They come to Russia's capital, the lone island of wealth in a Eurasian ocean of wretched poverty, from all over the former Soviet Union.
David Wesley
4.1.06
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Russians Yawn At Death

Few countries can boast a death count as high as Russia's in the 20th century. Twenty million were killed by Hitler and Stalin each, and millions more were lost in the Civil War, WW1, and the Famine.
VICE Staff
4.1.06
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Ra-Ra Rasputin

The Favourite Sons are the reason Ken Griffith isn’t currently mopping vomit off the floor of a Brooklyn drinking hole. After Irish noise-pop demi-gods Rollerskate Skinny split in 1997 he decided to have one last go with Kid Silver.
Jaimie Hodgson
4.1.06
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Vice Fashion - Mail-Order Brides

The real Russia is in provincial cities and towns like Tver, where we found these girls. They are all members of a local bridal agency (tverromance.com) and would like to marry you.
Alexei Rezoff
4.1.06
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Bible Bashers

Sometimes, you’ll know a British band by how they make something poetic out of their experience of living in the UK. You’ll usually notice that their songs find some way to romanticize what is essentially a small, rainy country where summer lasts ten...
John Robinson
4.1.06
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Dubiina Box *

Fuck, Russian TV is bad. It takes "so bad it's good" into entirely new realms. The best (worst) of Russian TV is so utterly abysmal that it's completely amazing. Here are the worst (best) shows that it has to offer.
Cormac Chin
4.1.06
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Born to Run

Do you miss Russia?
VICE Staff
4.1.06
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Literary/I Want My DVDs

There was a time I was way over black-and-white photography. Now I seek it out and feel relieved when I am looking at it, like, “Ah, that’s nice.” Color photos were starting to burn my eyes.
CHRISTY MACKSON, MARTIN SPIRE, DENISE DENISE, MATT EL
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Games

This game expertly preys on the fantasies of all devoted gamers. No, we don’t specifically want to be black-ops guys with ninja clothes and guns from the future and shit.
Colonel Ed Sanders
4.1.06
The Russia Issue

Fuck Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was a total disaster and everything but for some of the people of New Orleans' projects, who are used to dodging bullets while slanging yay and shocking out to jittery 808 beats and O.T.T. synth-driven hip-hop, Katrina was nothing.
Clarence Stately-Holmes
4.1.06
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