russia Russian Gun Show debuts a new robot dog with a missile launcher backpack Thom Dunn

Russians Russian FSB agents confuse "The Sims" with SIM cards in alleged Nazi evidence plant Thom Dunn

russia Guitar amp tubes are an unexpected victim of Russia's invasion on Ukraine Thom Dunn

russia Russian cats have officially been banned from international cat competitions Thom Dunn

graphic design These weird old Soviet anti-alcohol posters are wild Thom Dunn

russia Someone in Russia tried to steal a bunch of cryogenically-frozen human brains Thom Dunn

russia Russia announces new plans to use forced prison labor, promises it "won't be a gulag" Thom Dunn

assassinations Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, spoofs call to his FSB assassin and he confesses Gareth Branwyn

russian dystopia Mikhail Bulgakov's 'The Fatal Eggs' Jason Weisberger

Games Jeff Probst and Exploding Kittens collaborating on a game Gail Sherman

tucker carlson Here's what it looks like when Tucker Carlson moonlights on the eerie set of Russian state TV Carla Sinclair

dystopia Another Strugatsky masterpiece: The Inhabited Island Jason Weisberger

footage Russian cyberpunk farm Rob Beschizza

Business Many Chinese manufacturers are behaving as though they have no future Cory Doctorow

picks What 'Independence Day' Is Like In Transnistria, An Unrecognized Country Inside Moldova Katherine Leipper

tories 8 years of austerity have turned the UK into a bleak Victorian dystopia, where pensioners without electricity die from fires ignited by their candles Cory Doctorow

russia 'The Unbitten Elbow' by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Jason Weisberger

fake news Bible predictions: talking pets, the Mark of the Beast, and an exploding pop star, in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan

science fiction Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction Jason Weisberger

climate change Climate change: Apocalypse by 1000 cuts Maureen Herman