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Here are the most expensive places to drink beer around the world
What can better determine the cost of a city than the price of a nice cold beer? Go Euro recently released its 2015 Beer Price Index, which combined data from 75 cities around the world, using the cost of the most popular local beer and top five most commonly imported ones. Just like you want to avoid eating a club sandwich in Geneva,...
Step inside the tiny Soviet country that doesn’t technically exist
We all take pride in our roots, but photographer Anton Polyakov has a unique love for his homeland. Polyakov was born and raised in the breakaway province of Transnistria, an approximately 125-mile-long sliver of territory along the Dniester River running between Moldova and Ukraine. In the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse in the early 90s,...
One Belarusian company reportedly started paying its employees in sour cream
One milk-processing factory in Slonim, Belarus reportedly started paying its employees in sour cream rather than in Belarusian rubles, according to the Belarus Digest. But this isn’t the only case of economic troubles in the former Soviet Republic. On Thursday hundreds of Chinese migrant construction workers were protesting after not...
Attitudes toward the US have never been worse in post-Soviet Russia
It’s no secret that Russian-American relations have severely cooled over the last year. In fact, an opinion poll led by Moscow-based Levada Center revealed that over 80% of Russians have a negative view of the United States, almost double what it was like a year ago, the Washington Post reports. The attitudes of Russians toward Americans...
Russia’s big gas plan hit a setback
Russia’s big plan to build the Turkish Stream might have hit a snag as Russia and Turkey can’t agree on gas prices. Russia’s Gazprom and Turkey’s BOTAŞ had a six-month period to agree on the prices for gas supplies. That time frame expired on Monday without a deal. “The dispute over prices means there’s no...
Russia halts gas supplies to Ukraine
Moscow (AFP) – Russian gas company Gazprom said on Wednesday it was halting all natural gas supplies to Ukraine after Kiev announced the immediate suspension of Russian gas purchases the day earlier.”Ukraine did not pay for July gas supplies,” Gazprom said in a statement. “Gazprom halted gas supplies to Ukraine from 10 am...
What World War III would probably look like
An array of science-fiction-like technologies would likely make their debut U.S. and Chinese warships battle at sea, firing everything from cannons to cruise missiles to lasers. Stealthy Russian and American fighter jets dogfight in the air, with robotic drones flying as their wingmen. Hackers in Shanghai and Silicon Valley duel in digital...
A Russian military base has been spotted in eastern Ukraine
A Ukrainian pro-government militia has released drone footage showcasing the creation and expansion of a Russian military forward operating base (FOB) along a crucial front line in eastern Ukraine, Pierre Vaux reports for The Daily Beast. The footage compiled by the Ukrainian volunteer militia Dnipro-1 was filmed during two separate drone flights...
Russia is reviewing the ‘legality’ of Baltic states’ independence
Russia is going to review whether or not it was legal for the Soviet Union to recognize the Baltic states as independent nearly 25 years ago, according to a report by Interfax. A “source familiar with the situation” told Interfax on Tuesday that the Russian Prosecutor General’s office began checking the legality of the...
Ukraine suspends Russian gas purchases in new price row
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine announced on Tuesday the immediate suspension of all Russian gas purchases following a breakdown of price negotiations aimed at keeping supplies running for the next three to six months.The state energy company Naftogaz said in a statement it would still continue transporting Russian gas supplies westward to its other...
