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Monitoring Mission's Vehicles Torched in East Ukraine
A spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says people are directing their anger about the war towards the monitoring mission, forcing them to curtail operations.
Young People in Russia Explain What They Think of All the Stuff Getting Banned in the Country
"I'm completely against cultural isolation. Unfortunately, Russia is making a beeline for that at the moment."
A Village In Ruins, Defending Daily Attacks: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 91)
In this dispatch, VICE News travelled to Pisky, a village in ruins, to meet the soldiers and volunteers defending the village from daily DNR attacks.
Trying to Flee Debaltseve: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 90)
In this dispatch, VICE News travels to Debaltseve to meet some civilians hoping to evacuate the war-ravaged town, and others who are forced to stay in the city without water, gas, or electricity.
'Hard to Be a God' Is Director Aleksei German's Nihilistic Swansong
Words can't do justice to the repugnant milieu of German's adaptation of the Soviet sci-fi classic Hard to Be a God. It's filled with disease, blood, shit, and endless fighting, serving as a dark reflection of humanity's base proclivities.
Keep Your Helmet On When You Prepare the Herring
Phu Quoc Island is a fishing village famous for Vietnamese fish sauce—an item that airlines have banned for its stench. I came here expecting to find a wide variety of seafood dishes, but the underdog of all fish, herring, kept finding its way onto my...
In Moscow, Quantum Physics Meets the Visual Arts
An transglobal event run by FutureEverything and the British Council aims to showcase some of most interesting contemporary Russian and British artists.
Brighton Beach Is a Paradise of Pickles and Cow Feet
To learn more about the salty fish and cabbage that I'd briefly flirted with in my youth, I headed to Brighton Beach—a middle-class, heavily Jewish, and Russian-speaking neighborhood deep in the southern part of Brooklyn—for a bit of former Soviet...
'Forbidden Identities' Documents LGBT Russians' Dangerous Lives
Greek photographer Leonidas Toubanos grew up in Athens and lives in Scotland, but recently he's been spending time in Russia photographing the country’s LGBT community.
Russian Separatists Shot Down a Ukrainian Plane and 49 People Were Killed
Russian Roulette: Dispatch 50.