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Old Believers Hiding From Stalin In The Taiga – Until 1978
by Nick Glossop on February 15, 2013
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
The four scientists sent into the district to prospect for iron ore were told about the pilots’ sighting, and it perplexed and worried them. “It’s less dangerous,” the writer Vasily Peskov notes of this part of the taiga, “to run across a wild animal than a stranger,” and rather than wait at their own temporary base, 10
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FEMEN In Exile
by Nick Glossop on September 6, 2012
Caution: sacrilege and mammaries (NSFW)
A member of Ukrainian feminist group, Femen, who cut down a wooden crucifix while being topless in Kiev in support of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has fled Ukraine, the group said on its website.
Femen said Inna Shevchenko had been under 24-hour surveillance by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine for two weeks and the group feared she might be arrested.
“The
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Pussy Riot On Inside Story
by Nick Glossop on July 31, 2012
Inside Story asks: Why does the Russian government see Pussy Riot as a threat? Could Pussy Riot spark a rebellion in Russia? And is the church a “propaganda wing” of Putin’s government?
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Pussy Riot In Cell Block Number Nine
by Nick Glossop on May 11, 2012
And today, with tens of thousands of people routinely taking to the streets, the state will think twice before trying to fabricate a criminal case and putting us away. There are loads of Pussy Riot fans in Russia’s protesting masses.
We don’t know which member of Pussy Riot made the above statement as they wore their trademark balaclavas and used pseudonyms at the interview with Vice in February. But it …
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