Vladimir Putin turned 58 earlier this week. To celebrate, female students from Moscow State University posed for an erotic calendar for the second year in a row. Some students have protested the publication by taping over their mouths. THANK YOU! Now, we can not only enjoy the calendar, but also these other Russian calendar girls. We’ve never been happier to see time fly! Bring on November!

We all know that Russia has been f**king up in the last few months. This ridiculous business with Georgia during the Olympics (pretty convenient timing if you ask me), the angry comments made towards the NATO countries while discussing the cease fire and paranoia about anti-missile defenses in ex-soviet States has the whole country giving off a ‘mad… Click to read more

Russians will go to the polls on Saturday, March 2, to elect a new president. Unlike our suspenseful US elections, in Russia it is all but a foregone conclusion that Dmitry Medvedev will be the winner.
Why such a farce? While hardly anybody claims to “get” the Russian political system, it’s generally agreed that Putin’s power over the Russian public st… Click to read more