Section: Mashable (USA)
Russia burned 50 ducklings because it’s pissed at Ukraine
Fifty ducklings are the latest casualty in the political spat between Russia and its perceived enemies According to the Moscow Times, Russian officials confiscated and burned alive 50 ducklings that had been smuggled over the border from Ukraine. The move was part of a wider ban on foods coming into Russia from countries that have placed their...
Vladimir Putin embarks on an undersea treasure hunt
Russian President Vladimir Putin took a bathyscaphe — a self-propelled bubble-shaped submarine — deep into the Black Sea on Tuesday to view remnants of a Byzantine-era shipwreck discovered just off the coast of Crimea. Putin was photographed lowering himself into the “C-Explorer” submersible alongside members of the Russian...
Stigma and pain surround cancer patients in Russia
In Russia, cancer has become synonymous with scandal, exposing fundamental problems within both Russian healthcare and the wider society See also: Here’s what happens when 2 men hold hands in Russia and Ukraine Patients with late-stage cancer are reportedly often neglected by the medical establishment, which is accused of pouring most of...
Investigators find possible Buk missile parts at MH17 crash site
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have found what they believe could be parts of a Buk missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down last year. See also: Field of death: Unraveling the mystery of MH17 The announcement represents the first time prosecutors have confirmed...
Red Bull under fire for featuring racist video showing men in blackface
Red Bull is in hot water featuring a controversial, overtly racist video from a recent Moscow event on its website. The highlight reel, filmed at Red Bull’s Flugtag event in Moscow on July 26, opens with two men in blackface and one in a Barack Obama mask chasing a banana in front of a Red Bull banner. See also: Here’s what happens...
Russia vetoes criminal investigation of MH17 crash
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago. The foreign ministers of the Netherlands, Australia and Ukraine attended a meeting over the downing that killed all 298 people on board...
Russia expected to veto UN call for criminal investigation of MH17 crash
Russia is expected to veto a new U.N. Security Council resolution that would set up an international criminal court to uncover who was behind the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine last year. The vote, scheduled for Wednesday, would establish a special court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down Flight MH17 from the...
Here’s what happens when 2 men hold hands in Russia and Ukraine
Editor’s note: The videos above and below contain strong violence. A YouTube video uploaded Tuesday shows a gay couple being attacked by a group of young members of a far-right group in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev after they were spotted canoodling on a bench. “It looks like they’re mistaking this place for America,”...
Ukraine separatists, likely culprits in downing of MH17, hold memorial ceremony at crash site
HRABOVE, Ukraine — The images left you with a queasy feeling in your gut Here, in this field of wildflowers, 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed to Earth after being shot out of the sky one year ago. But today’s memorial ceremony, coordinated by separatist leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic...
New video shows the moment rebels learned MH17 was a passenger plane
A new video obtained by News Corp Australia shows the moments after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine as the pro-Russian rebels who first arrived on scene learn it was a passenger plane. See also: Field of death: Unraveling the mystery of MH17 “This is a passenger plane,” one man says in Russian, according...
