Damn you, Black Friday! Target has confirmed that criminals attacked their customer information system Thanksgiving week, stealing credit card and personal data from nearly 40 million customers. The theft continued until December 15. The information stolen included customer names, credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates, and three-digit security codes. Online customers, however, were safe. Authorities […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making sure the world knows he’s not the one to be effed with. Aside from being named the most powerful person alive by Time Magazine, Putin was just awarded a ninth Dan ranking in Taekwondo by Choue Chung-won, the president of the World Taekwondo Federation. A Dan measures proficiency in a martial […]
A Russian performance artist who once stitched his lips together to protest the jailing of two members of Pussy Riot members had the balls to make a bold stand against Russia in the middle of Moscow’s Red Square. Pyotr Pavlensky stripped naked and nailed his testicles to the cobblestone on Russia’s national Police Day holiday to […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin has a message for the U.S. – striking Syria is totally not a good idea. In a NYT op-ed titled “A Plea For Caution From Russia,” Putin writes that the strike “will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria’s borders. A strike would increase […]
Well this is good news, but can we believe it? Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, offered his assurance that athletes who display a rainbow flag during the Winter Olympics in Sochi would not be punished by the country’s new anti-gay law. He even insisted that gays are not discriminated against in his country. “I assure you […]
If you don’t know by now, these two men are not besties. After Russia gave whistleblower Edward Snowden one year asylum, tension between the country and the United States has increased tremendously. Earlier this week, President Obama even canceled a one-on-one meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Needless to say, the Russians weren’t happy. However, there are ways […]
