Tag Archives: Russia

The latest “thing” on YouTube seems to be people risking death from super-high places. All of these clips make my nuts ache.

Russian authorities have shut down a single scamster who was estimated to be responsible for 20% of all the spam on the internet. You may not have noticed, but since late last month, the world supply of Viagra ads and other e-mail spam has dropped by an estimated one-fifth. With 200 billion spam messages in circulation each day, there is …

Yesterday the president of Russia fired Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luhzkov, who has described gays as “satanic,” blocked gay pride parades, and has been the subject of numerous protests by LGBT activists, including one just a few days ago. The firing, however, had nothing to do with Luhzkov’s bigotry. Officially, the Kremlin attributed Mr. Medvedev’s decision to his “loss of trust” …

Eight Russian LGBT activists, including Moscow Pride head Nikolai Alexeyev, were arrested yesterday at a protest rally outside the office of Moscow’s anti-gay mayor. At least eight protesters were arrested when police moved in to disperse the rally outside the mayor’s office. Among them was Russia’s best-known gay rights campaigner, Nikolai Alexeyev, who accused security agents of abducting him last …

Noted Russian LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseev was taken away by authorities yesterday he attempted to board a flight to Geneva. According to Alekseev, Russia’s government is angry over a complaint he filed with the European Court Of Human Rights over Moscow’s five year old ban on gay pride events. Officials are also demanding that he call off a picket of …

(Via – Copyranter)

Russian bookmakers have offered €100,000 for Paul the Octopus, who accurately predicted the winners of six consecutive World Cup matches. “100,000 euros (about $129,800) was our starting price,” Oleg Zhuravsky, co-owner of Liga Stavok — “Bet League” in Russian — told CNN. He said the offer could be increased if need be — “We are bookmakers, after all.” Paul currently …

Five activists were arrested today at small gay pride rally staged in St. Petersburg, Russia. About two dozen gay and lesbian activists gathered in the tourist-packed courtyard of one of the world’s most famous museums, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, carrying banners and chanting “Homophobia is the country’s shame.” One of the organisers, Maria Efremenkova, said the Russian …

The IGLA-Europe (European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) has ranked Sweden as the continent’s most gay-friendly nation. Via Rex Wockner @ Pink Paper: The new edition of the group’s Rainbow Europe Country Index says Sweden is the only European nation that passes all the group’s tests in areas such as anti-discrimination protections, recognition of …

Although the mayor of Moscow has banned gay pride parades for the last five years, today activists defied riot police and staged two small “flash” parades without incident. Strategic planning by the activists managed to keep the events below the radar of anti-gay nationalists and neo-nazis. For once. Two Gay Pride parades were held without arrests in Moscow on Saturday, …

For the fifth year in a row, Moscow Mayor Yury Lushkov has banned gay pride. Not unexpectedly, the homophobic Mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov, has banned the march planned in Russian capital as part of Moscow Pride on May 29. It is the fifth successive year that the Mayor, who infamously described Gay Pride parades a “satanic happenings”, has invoked …

JMG reader Russ tips us that it appears that homocon site Gay Patriot has been hacked today. The top post on the quite discombobulated site now features a message in Russian and a link to an Eastern European straight porn site. (No link as I’m getting a virus warning there.) A fresh wave of hack attacks on LGBT sites began …

Ukraine’s parliament dissolved into fistfights, smoke bombs, and egg throwing as members argued over allowing Russia to extend their lease on a Ukrainian naval base. And you thought our health care debate was tough.

The president of Russia tells George Stephanopoulos that Barack Obama actually “thinks when he speaks,” unlike a certain other person that he doesn’t care to name for fear of offending.

Poland has declared a week of mourning after President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were killed in a plane crash in western Russia this morning. All passengers and crew died in the crash. As mayor of Warsaw, Kaczynski had repeatedly banned gay pride marches and had been quoted as saying that same-sex marriage would bring about the destruction of the …

ChatRoulette, the webcam program that randomly connects you with people all over the world, has gotten a lot of press in the last few days. NY Magazine’s Sam Anderson gave it a try: The site activates your webcam automatically; when you click “start” you’re suddenly staring at another human on your screen and they’re staring back at you, at which …

Repeating his annual description of gay Pride as “Satanic,” Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has called for the enforcement of laws prohibiting the event, which has taken place in years past despite being banned. “A gay parade… cannot be called anything but a Satanic act,” Yury Luzhkov told an education conference, quoted by Interfax news agency. “We haven’t permitted such a …

Harlem-based Pastor James David Manning says that President Obama is “pure evil borne of the womb of 16 year-old white girl.” (Obama’s mother was actually 18 when she had him.) He also claims that the Marxists in the black Suburbans are coming to get him for saying so, blah blah blah. I doubt that Pastor Wacko is very well known …

Harmless silliness, safe for work. (Via – Towleroad)

The mayor of Moscow has vowed to spend millions on cloud-seeding technology to ensure that this winter’s storms drop the bulk of their snow outside of city limits. For just a few million dollars, the mayor’s office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to …