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Russia Building 'Star Wars' Defense

Moscow plans major improvement to launch in 2017

(Newser) - Russia might not be thrilled with US plans to build a NATO shield in Europe , but that's not stopping Moscow from beefing up its own missile-defense system, AFP reports. It plans to launch a long-range system in 2017 capable of knocking out targets in space. The S-500 system would...

Russia Cops Seize Painting of Putin in a Nightie

Govt. not laughing, shuts down gallery that mocked anti-gay law

(Newser) - Looks like Russian authorities will no longer allow mockery to be used as a weapon by those opposed to the country's anti-gay law. Police swooped on a newly opened art gallery in St. Petersburg yesterday and removed several paintings, including one depicting Vladimir Putin wearing a nightie as he...

Russian Lawmaker: Ban Gays From Giving Blood

But he offers free 'conversion therapy'

(Newser) - As a follow-up to Russia's internationally condemned anti-gay law, a senior lawmaker wants to bring back the country's ban on gay people giving blood. Mikhail Dyegtyaryov says the move would help stem the country's HIV/AIDS epidemic, reports Reuters , though experts say the vast majority of the country'...

Russia Meteor Had Steamy Past

Scientists suspect it had near-miss with sun

(Newser) - The colossal meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this year had been with other celestial bodies before, scientists say. Analysis of fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor—the biggest to hit Earth in more than a century —have revealed signs of melting that researchers believed was caused by either a...

Gay Reporter Stuns Kremlin-Funded Network

He dons rainbow suspenders, blasts anti-gay laws

(Newser) - An American reporter brought onto the state-funded Russia Today network to discuss Bradley Manning decided the chance to blast Russia's repressive anti-gay laws was too good to pass up. As cameras rolled, James Kirchick donned rainbow suspenders and said, "Being here on a Kremlin-funded propaganda network, I’m...

Russian Runners on Kiss: 'Someone's Sick Fantasies'

Yeah, doesn't sound like it was a protest

(Newser) - It was the kiss seen 'round the world: Russian runners Ksenia Ryzhova and Yulia Guschina seemed to touch lips twice while kissing each other on the cheek on Saturday, first after managing to beat the US team to take gold in the 400m relay at the World Athletics Championships,...

Perfect Bolt Claims 3 Golds
 Perfect Bolt Claims 3 Golds 
Aug 18, 2013 10:30 AM CDT

Perfect Bolt Claims 3 Golds

Jamaica sweeps sprinting events at World Athletics Championship in Moscow

(Newser) - Usain Bolt is perfect again. And with three gold medals in Moscow, the Jamaican great became the most successful athlete in the 30-year history of the world championships. The 4x100-meter relay gold today erased the memories of the 100 title he missed out on in South Korea two years ago...

Female Russian Runners Kiss—Very Publicly

Kseniya Ryzhova, Tatyana Firova smooch atop podium, set tongues wagging

(Newser) - Maybe it was just affection or maybe a blatant political statement, but as the debate heats up over Russia's anti-gay policies , two female Russian runners yesterday shared a very public smooch—atop the winner's podium at the World Athletics Championship in Moscow. Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova had...

Two Public Figures Come Out, One Loses Job

WWE wrestler Darren Young gets friendly reception, but...

(Newser) - Two gay men came out publicly this week and received totally different reactions. With Russia's anti-gay law making headlines , Russian TV personality Anton Krasovsky made his declaration on air, the Independent reports. "I’m gay, and I’m just the same person as you, my dear audience, as...

Andy Cohen Won't Return to Miss Universe: I Could Be Arrested

It's being held in Russia this year, and the former co-host is gay

(Newser) - Missing from this year's Miss Universe pageant: regular co-host Andy Cohen. The competition is being held in Russia on Nov. 9, and the country's anti-gay laws "make it unsafe for the gays who live there and gays coming to work or visit," Cohen tells E!'...

Snowden Dad: I've Got Visa to Go to Russia

Unclear when he'll go visit

(Newser) - Edward Snowden's dad says Russia has given him a visa so that he might visit the NSA leaker, reports the AP . Speaking this morning with ABC's This Week, Lon Snowden confirmed that he's got the necessary paperwork, but was mum on when he might make the actual...

Man Tweaks Credit Card Offer; Bank Doesn't Notice

Russian customer amended a mail-in credit offer, sues bank for ducking terms

(Newser) - Why not amend a credit card offer and send back your version? That's what one man did in Russia, and it kinda worked out for him, the Telegraph reports. Dmitry Argarkov, 42, scanned an offer from Tinkoff Credit Systems and changed the terms to his liking: no credit limit...

To Boost Economy, Russia Frees Jailed Entrepreneurs

110K 'economic criminals' are currently in prison

(Newser) - Faced with economic malaise, Russia needs some entrepreneurs, and it knows just where to find them: in prison. Putin administration official Boris Titov has made it his mission to scour the prison camp system once known as the gulag for businessmen that could be granted amnesty. He's got no...

Obama Axes Putin Meeting
 Obama Axes Putin Meeting 
Aug 7, 2013 8:24 AM CDT

Obama Axes Putin Meeting

Over asylum granted to Edward Snowden, among other gripes

(Newser) - President Obama is canceling plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month. The move is retribution for Russia's decision to grant temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and reflects growing US frustration with Russia on several other issues, including missile defense and...

Russia Going After US Band for Flag Stunt

Member of Bloodhound Gang shoved it in pants; criminal investigation follows

(Newser) - Edward Snowden hasn't done great things for US-Russia relations . Now meet the Bloodhound Gang. The American rock band was performing in Ukraine last week when bassist Jared Hasselhoff grabbed a Russian flag thrown from the audience, shoved it down the front of his pants, and pulled it out again...

Man Steals ... a Road?
 Man Steals ... a Road? 
Aug 3, 2013 10:25 AM CDT

Man Steals ... a Road?

Alas, he doesn't get far in Russia

(Newser) - We've heard of people stealing a bridge , but stealing a road? Such is the case in Russia, where a resident in the city of Syktyvkar confessed to doing just that and now faces two years in prison, reports RIA Novosti . He probably didn't have much of a choice...

Russia: Anti-Gay Law Will Apply to Olympians

Violators 'will be held accountable,' could face arrest, deportation

(Newser) - Russia's sports minister has said the country's law banning "homosexual propaganda" will be in full effect during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi—and will apply to foreign athletes. "No one is forbidding a sportsman with a nontraditional sexual orientation to come to Sochi," Vitaly Mutko...

Snowden to Live With American Expats

He wants to rent apartment in Russia, get a job

(Newser) - What will Edward Snowden's life (or, at least, one year of it ) in Russia be like? The NSA leaker will be living with American expatriates in their home until he can rent his own place, his Russian lawyer says, and he'll be looking for a job. "...

Snowden Gets Asylum, Leaves Airport

He can now stay in Russia for one year

(Newser) - Edward Snowden has finally left the Moscow airport he's been calling home for more than a month now, after getting papers granting him temporary asylum in Russia. "I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service," Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Russian...

Gay Bars Boycott Russian Vodka

Verdict still out on White Russians

(Newser) - Many have been calling for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics, but gay bars across the US have figured out a more immediate way to show Russia how they feel about the country's anti-gay laws: stop buying its vodka. The move was spearheaded by journalist and sex writer...

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