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Chechnya, Land of Kidnappings and Tigers

Update: The bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov were found this morning, in the trunk of a car parked outside of Chechen capital Grozny. They had been shot. Chechen Human...

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WTF Friday, 5/21/10

In a sad conclusion to a story touched on in our Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition, a gay couple in Malawi has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for being, you guessed it, gay. Human rights...

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WTF Friday, 7/30/10

Found this list of dictator’s favorite movies. Pretty entertaining but I wish they would elaborate on Kim Jong-Il’s love for Barbara Streisand. Can’t leave me hanging on that! Also: Stalin tried to...

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WTF Friday, 12/10/2010

Sarah Palin will be visiting Haiti this weekend with the relief group “Samaritan’s Purse.” The name of this organization is equal parts brilliant and disturbing. I’m leaning towards disturbing as I...

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WTF Friday, 5/27/2011

Can we please do away with the term “man crush”? Otherwise this article is gold. “In between discussions of tiger poaching, Ernest Hemingway and the fragility of human existence…avatar of...

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In Which I’m Kind of Confused By Tyler Cowen’s Views on The European Court of...

Tyler Cowen calls the European Court of Human Rights “cowards” because of their recent Khodorkovsky decision. I am quite confused by this. Am I missing some sort of satirical point about the media...

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WTF Friday, 7/29/11

Props to Hugo Chavez for his Yul Brynner reference. No props for saying he’s gonna rule for another 20 years. Give it a rest, dude. Medvedev planning to rap about the budget. Somalis can apparently now...

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WTF Friday, 9/30/11

“Prime Minister Putin is the most authoritative politician in our country, and his approval ratings are somewhat higher.” Wow, nothing complex about that inferiority. I didn’t really read this article...

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Russians Being Amazing in the News: 11/16/11 Edition

Remember Albert Dayan, Viktor Bout’s crack defense attorney? Well, it turns out he was playing the long game. The New York Times reports that Dayan is attempting to challenge the verdict against his...

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WTF Friday, 12/9/2016

Everything is basically awful. We’re rapidly running out of giraffes, American life expectancy dropped for the first time in over two decades, and 2016 continues its merciless extermination campaign...

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