Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today.
Pitchfork reported on Wednesday that feminist Russian performance collective Pussy Riot is preparing to tour the…
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A U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance plane, flying over international waters, was harassed by a Russian Su-27 Flanker…
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Veep creator Armando Iannucci’s latest film, the Cold War-era satire The Death Of Stalin, has been getting rave…
Over the weekend, 36 Russian athletes withdrew from a track-and-field competition in Siberia at the last minute…
Despite being down two jobs at this point—three, if you count his dried-up Hollywood career—Steve Bannon is in high…
Sergey Lavrov, the longtime foreign minister of Russia who was once photographed pressing a literal relationship…
Late Thursday evening, the Huffington Post published a draft of the Trump administration’s 2018 Nuclear Posture…
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Look, we’ve all been there: It’s late and we get a hankering for some wine, but sadly there isn’t any in the house.…
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Around 13 years ago, the site of the sinking of the U.S.S. Thomas Donaldson, a World War II-era transport ship, was…
We’ve unfurled ourselves from the fetal position we’ve been in since Trump revived his threats of nuclear war on…
By this point, it’s pretty much understood that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 Presidential election in the…
Jiri Dvorak was once FIFA’s chief medical officer. For 22 years he worked for soccer’s governing body, and in that…
I feel quite safe, don’t you?
Kirill “Likkrit” Malofeyev received a six-month ban from all League of Legends tournaments after comments he made…
There’s a great article over at Eurogamer about the development of Dendy, Russia’s knockoff version of the NES. It also goes into how the console helped develop a market for gaming in the former Soviet Union and paved the way for Nintendo to begin selling its original hardware.
On a crisp November morning in Moscow, Steven Seagal found himself within the walls of the Grand Kremlin Palace,…
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Earlier this week the IOC banned Russia from the 2018 Olympics, but only in symbolism. The athletes will still be…