Four reasons not to answer our phone calls: an eXile harvest of PRANK VICTiMS
On Monday, we mainly sent out letters. Among those was a letter to the well-known public opinion firm VTsIOM-the first ripple in what we’d hoped would turn into a media groundswell indicting new deputy...
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Feature: New York Times Hack Eats Horse Sperm Pie
His name was Pobornik. He had never read The New York Times. He would never be able to recognize a classic “pyramid lead.” His hours were occupied by other pursuits: grazing, sleeping standing up for...
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Run Over by A VW Van
That was how he died, Professor Robert Beloof, my first mentor: crushed by a hippie van. In Portland, yet. It was a ridiculous way to die, and Beloof was, let’s face it, a ridiculous man. But it was...
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Russia’s Original Gangstas: Meet The Gopniki
This article first appeared in The eXile on June 1, 2007 For months now, our overseas readers have been asking us, “What’s a gopnik?” They have a vague idea of what a gopnik looks like, thanks to our...
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Serfin’ USA! Teenaged Russkies Duped Into Taking Low-Wage Summer Jobs From...
WARRINGTON, PA — The last thing you want to hear from a 21-year-old from Mariupol is that, really, there’s not much of a difference between Ukraine and the States. Mariupol is one of those featureless...
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Georgia In The Crunch
This article first appeared in The eXile on November 11, 2003 TBILISI, GEORGIA – If you want to understand what’s really going on beneath the current election crisis in the former Soviet republic of...
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The Bleak House: Meet The Children Of The Solnyshko Orphanage
This article was first published in The eXile on January 22, 2003 Dima’s eyes lit up when he first saw the Solnyshko orphanage’s toy collection two months ago. He had never seen anything like it. It...
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Donetsk Paper Fascists: Protest & Track Suits In Yanukovych’s Hometown
This article was published in The eXile on December 10, 2004 DONETSK – Donetsk is a fascist city. I’m not using this term in the cheap way that it gets bandied around at a dinner table discussion...
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Escape From Crimea: An Ethnic Russian Journalist’s Flight From Ukraine
This article was first published in The eXile on April 23, 1998 I am a convicted felon. I’ve never killed or raped anyone. I’ve never been involved in “commercial activities.” First I attended school,...
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