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As many expected, Donald Trump has begun issuing a series of pardons ahead of the end of his presidential term. On Tuesday, the lame duck announced pardons for several Trump loyalists, war criminals, and other questionable characters. According to CNN, Trump is pardoning his former campaign aide George Papadopoulos and Dutch lawyer Alex Van der […]
A Russian woman died after her iPhone fell in the tub while she was bathing, the Toronto Sun reports. Olesya Semenova was found dead by her roommate in their Arkhangelsk apartment. The woman tried to revive her before contacting emergency responders. “I screamed, shook her, but she was pale, not breathing, and showing no signs of […]
A Russian TV station has generated outrage over a skit it aired in which an actress donned blackface to play Barack Obama. The caveat to that statement is that most of that outrage seems to be based in America, which is to say it’s unlikely to matter in any way to the actual station. According to TMZ, the […]
The labels on the back of hand sanitizer containers should definitely be taken seriously, especially after seven people reportedly died in Russia after drinking the sterilizing serum during a party. According to TMZ, a group of 9 were partying in the country when they ran out of alcohol and turned to literal rubbing alcohol instead. The hand sanitizer that […]
On Monday, the term “Clue” trended on Twitter because a Russian oligarch being shot with a crossbow conjured up (fun?) memories of the occasionally kind-of-interesting board game from Hasbro. The BBC reports that the now-decesased oligarch, Vladimir Marugov, was in an outdoor sauna cabin with a female partner when a pair of masked assailants are […]
A cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been arrested in Siberia, Newsweek reports. Footage captured when the man, born Sergei Torop, was cuffed and taken away in a helicopter from his Church of the Last Testament compound in the southern district of the Krasnoyarsk region. According to The Moscow […]
A woman in Russia was just trying to catch up on her rest but a snake had other plans. Per TMZ, an unnamed woman from Dagestan was rushed to the local hospital after complaining about not feeling well. When she arrived, she told the doctors that a snake had crawled into her mouth while she was […]
Security officials in the U.S. and elsewhere have accused Russia of a hacking effort linked to COVID-19 vaccine research, Vice reports. On Thursday, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre shared an advisory message discussing the alleged activities of a group known by the names APT29, Cozy Bear, and the Dukes. In an accompanying statement, Paul Chichester—Director […]
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, claiming the former Secretary of State attempted to derail her presidential campaign by suggesting she was being supported by the Russians. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, about three months after Clinton appeared […]
