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Twitch
In Russia, government blocks you Yep, we went for a Yakov Smirnoff intro According to several sites today, Russian authorities have blocked off it's citizens from having access to Twitch, along with several other sites owned or operated by Google and Amazon The news started trickling in via social media and Reddit, the biggest one making[...]
Amidst Trump/Bezos Feud, Amazon Releases Rocky and Bullwinkle Trailer
"Americans should ignore fake news Moose and Squirrel cartoon and watch programming with more fair and balanced perspective on Russia, like Fox News." According to our sources, President Trump may be under pressure to stop the release of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle before it has a chance to spread its anti-Russian propaganda to a[...]
mark millar
Comics' greatest propagandist, Mark Millar, will be spending New Years Eve with Russia's greatest international propaganda network, according to a tweet from Sputnik, a show on RT, a Russian state-funded international television network. You may remember RT as the network to which Trump ally, former Minnesota  governor, and pro wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura went to[...]
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The upcoming Marvel Studios Ant-Man and the Wasp will be a romantic comedy, according to a report from Russian film website Kinometro, which the American clickbait media is taking and running with on this slow news weekend. The story comes via a single line in a report about upcoming films from a Russian film event which[...]
satirical cartoons
The Russian legal system has convicted 32-year-old Viktor Nochevnov and fined him for reposting satirical cartoons about Jesus Christ A Sochi court (near the Black Sea) has found him guilty of offending religious believers' feelings, specifically those of the Russian Orthodox Church. Radio Free Europe reports that he posted the cartoons on the Russian social media[...]
[RUMOR]: Wonder Woman 2 Has Her Fighting The USSR
He's Russian and adorned in Soviet-era iconography Though, they may stray from that character since he would draw comparisons to Iron Man and Iron Man 2 specifically with its Mickey Rourke Whiplash/Crimson Dynamo hybrid main antagonist Red Panzer is another obvious choice, and that would be greatly enjoyable as well. By the way, my pick for[...]
Colbert Taking 'Late Show' To Russia Because He Can
In a move that has absolutely nothing to do with his late-night war with President Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert is currently in Russia "on assignment" developing a segment for his CBS late-night series, The Late Show The late-night talk show is in repeats this Thursday and Friday, with Colbert expected to return to the Late[...]
'Pokémon Go' YouTuber Facing Prison Time For Gaming In A Russian Church
But one man in Russia is learning that the hard way over this video. Ruslan Sokolovsky is a YouTuber who, in that clip, showed a news story saying that anyone caught playing the game in a church could be fined up to half a million rubles and be jailed for up to three years under the[...]
Report: Russia Could Ban Beauty And The Beast Over Gay LeFou Scenes
Russia is considering banning the upcoming release of Disney's Beauty and the Beast due to the appearance of the company's first openly gay movie character According to BBC News, politician Vitaly Milonov has asked Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky to hold a screening of the movie to determine whether it violate's the country's messed up gay propaganda laws,[...]
Now Suicide Squad Gets Involved In Russia/Ukraine Politics (SPOILERS)
Such as the Suicide Squad short in the back of Convergence: Flash… set in Eastern Ukraine… Where the Russians have placed Rocket Red military tech. Ripped out of the headlines like a beating heart This is not your Paul Levitz DC Comics But there's no way this could actually spark an international incident is there? Probably not. Now[...]
Brian Bolland Talks Killing Joke, Past, Present And Future
The other day we ran a snippet of a then-upcoming interview with Brian Bolland in Russia, from the website spidermedia.ru in which he talked about a possible sequel to The Killing Joke, his classic Batman story with Alan Moore. The full interview has now run, including further mention of a Killing Joke sequel, and how Bolland has[...]
Archie Comics Cancels Russian Trip Over Anti-Gay Laws
Again, one of those headlines that ten years, I couldn't have even envisaged. In an interview with Back2Stonewall, Archie writer Dan Parent has revealed that the Archie gang will no longer be travelling to Russia in their upcoming foreign adventures, due to their newly announced anti-gay laws He told the site; "Yes Russia should be boycotted, so[...]