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Russian oligarch Vladimir Marugov was killed in an outdoor sauna in a bizarre attack on Monday morning, and he isn’t the first.
41 people on board a Russian passenger jet were killed after the aircraft crash-landed at a Moscow airport on Sunday.
A man walked into an art gallery in Moscow, casually removed a painting from the wall, and strolled out. He didn’t enjoy a happy ending, though.
No, it wasn’t this picture of our lovely Candice, which is a good thing because then there would have been a lot more people not paying attention to the road.
This is a little embarrassing for the Russian police. A Russian blogger recently decided to try a little experiment – he took a replica AK-47, hung it around his neck, and walked through the centre of Moscow to see if anything would happen. Not one police officer stopped him. See the pictures from his experiment after the jump.
Russian historian, Anatoly Moskvin, has been arrested after Russian police discovered 29 mummified bodies in his home. The remains were dressed in brightly-coloured clothes and arranged in doll-like poses, making up a “gruesome tableau.” Moskvin has been charged with desecration of graves, because it turns out being insanely creepy isn’t a crime in Russia.
In the most stunningly apathetic move since Marie Antoinette told the dirty kids to shove off and eat their cake, Moscow’s regional governor suggested that residents should buy a helicopter if they’re suffering with road traffic congestion. “I fly in a helicopter. (You) should also buy helicopters instead of cars – then you do not […]