Russia News

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (basically its internet watchdog) has been in the news quite a bit l...

Reddit Will Block Content in Certain Countries, Has Already Done So in Germany and Russia

Reddit has confirmed that it will locally block content if it receives a "valid request from and authorized entity." The policy confirmation comes after the company blocked a sp...

Russia Unblocks Reddit After Dustup over Shroom Post

On Wednesday afternoon, Russia added reddit to its registry of blocked sites. And as of early...

Reddit Is Now Banned in Russia

Well, it looks like they weren't lying. After warning that it was considering it...

Russia Threatens to Block Reddit over Drug Post

Russia, which has a history of threatening to block access to certain...

Russia Is Thinking About Blocking Facebook Over Gay Emoji

A little while back Apple and many other platforms adopted a new Unicode standard for emojis that included, among other thing, emojis featuring same sex couples. More specifically,...

Apple’s U2 Album Giveaway Turned Kids Gay, Say Russian Wingnuts

According to some right-wing Russians, this is probably going to turn your kid gay:...

Anna Duritskaya, Girlfriend Of Murdered Putin Critic, In Hiding And Fearing For Her Life

Anna Duritskaya was standing right next to Russian opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov when he was gunned down just steps from the Kremlin. In fact, Anna Duritskaya and Nemtsov...

Google Facing Another Antitrust Probe – in Russia

Google is facing another antitrust investigation, as Russian search company Yandex has asked the country's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service to take a look at Google's practices – spec...

Hitler Beauty Pageant in Russia Gets Shut Down

In a move that is at least as historically confused as Kirk Cameron’s Halloween revisionism, Russian women were queuing up to compete in what has been called a “Miss Hitler" beauty...

Oil Prices Could Weaken Vladimir Putin’s Resolve

Oil prices stand at a three year low of $81 per barrel. That's significantly less than the $100 per barrel that was in place when Vladimir Putin first invaded Ukraine. While fa...

Fish With “Human Teeth”? You Won’t Believe The Explanation

A fish with HUMAN teeth? This is what a fisherman in Russia claimed to...

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