(via @slate) This is horrifying.

"computer users are worried that Cyrillic domains will give rise to a hermetic Russian Web, a sort of cyberghetto, and that the push for Cyrillic amounts to a plot by the security services to restrict access to the Internet"

some Ugandan love for my dear friend Vladimir

WTF? "Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew.... Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun."

omg, like, i TOTALLY need my cappuccino, or life would, like, TOTALLY suck

"A state official must at least have brains," he snapped at a press conference earlier this month when asked about Clinton's comment that former KGB officers do not have souls.

"And so, with a swift change of garb, Raskol emerges into the night!"

"For anthropologist Margaret Paxson, a close encounter with Russian country life reveals an often astonishing blend of agricultural, Orthodox and Soviet traditions."

Anna Politkovskaya Award to recognize women who are defending human rights in zones of war and conflict