Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets Apple CEO Steve Jobs

This happened today. How'd I learn about it? Why, from the Kremlin's new official Twitter account. Medvedev also visited Twitter, Cisco, and other Silicon Valley companies. Medvedev works on a MacBook, and recently began using an iPad.

Russian art group Voina "dicks" a St. Petersburg Bridge

Animal New York reports on the latest project by Russian art renegades Voina (War): dicking a bridge.
Over the years, Voina staged many actions: police station take-overs, anti-homophobic faux-lynchings in malls, stray cat throwing into swanky restaurants, anti-Medvedev public orgies and all kinds of ruckus. Their most recent target: the headquarters of FSB, the offices of Russia’s KGB incarnate Federal Security Service. Our source: Voina themselves.
In the early morn of Che Guevara’s birthday, the group psyched out bascule bridge guards and made their way to the center of Liteiny Bridge. In 23 seconds flat, Voina painted a 213-feet-tall, 89-feet-wide phallus dubbed “Giant Galactic Space Dick.”

Russia: Stalin-era mass grave discovered

In Russia today, approximately 500 skeletons—nearly all of which show head gunshot wounds—have been discovered in a mass grave believed to date back to Stalin-era purges in the 1930s.

"Practically all of the skulls have bullet wounds," said Yaroslav Livanksy, the head of a group of volunteers who helped to excavate the site. He said money and clothes from the 1930s had been found at the site. A crushed child's skull was discovered close to a bead bracelet and a small slipper.
Irina Fliege, a senior researcher with Russian human rights group Memorial, which collects information about Stalin-era killings, said she had no doubt that the victims were shot by Stalinist forces. She said far more bodies were likely to be found as adjacent sites are studied.

"This happens all over the country, it's impossible to say how often," Felige said. "All we can to is put up monuments to remember the dead."

Russian man becomes father at the age of 89

Dribbling, burping and nodding off in the middle of the day - and that's just the father. Aramais Nazarov, a decorated Second World War veteran, has become a dad for the fourth time aged 89.

He took his newborn son Artem - weighing in at 8lb 2oz - home from hospital yesterday. The former soldier, who served in Stalin's Red Army, brought a bouquet of pink roses to congratulate his wife Yevgeniya, who is 54 years his junior.



Mr Nazarov, whose eldest child is a 61-year-old pensioner, said: "What is the secret of my strength? When you've got a wife that much younger you just have to meet her demands - and so I do. All things being well, we will have a daughter to make the family complete."

His wife, 35, said: "I don't feel the age gap. We live like a normal man and wife. He is very strong." Her mother Lidia Alexeevna, who is herself two decades younger than her son-in-law, admitted that she tried to persuade her daughter against the match. "Of course I tried to talk her out of it," she said. "But she insisted. He's a faithful and loving husband to her."

Russian man kills himself with home-made guillotine

A Russian engineer killed himself using a guillotine he built in his bedroom.
47-year-old Albert Repin's mother said he had shut himself in his bedroom for days, saying he wanted to build a cupboard, according to a report in newspaper Tvoi Den, which also published photographs and sketches of the contraption.



His body was found jammed in the "strange construction" which used a metal plate - attached to a plank and weighted with large water bottles - as a blade.
The man, a divorcee from Moscow, lay on the floor beneath and triggered the guillotine himself. He had reportedly suffered psychiatric problems in recent years.

Tzar from the tiny village somewhere in Russia

he lives in a tiny village and makes his Palace by himself. All his nieghbours envy him terrible but he continiues to be a local Tzar with his own throne.


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