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June 11, 2008 in eXile Blog
The War Nerd talks about babies, the greatest weapon of the 20th century.
May 28, 2008 in eXile Blog
A website for Russian kids to learn all about President Medvedev's passion for school, sports and family.
May 22, 2008 in eXile Blog
If this girl was exposed to Jeffersonian democracy...
May 20, 2008 in Face Control
Yet another hot Russian babe imitating the Catpower look...
May 20, 2008 in Face Control
Sure, the Ottomans shut down the Istanbul Slavic slave markets centuries ago...
May 15, 2008 in Face Control
The priest is going, "Father Sansei is very impressed with grasshopper Sasha’s...
May 15, 2008 in Face Control
We took the Pepsi Challenge here...
May 15, 2008 in Face Control

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Alexander Zaitchik34 ARTICLES March 27, 2008 There Will Be Krov: Oil-soaked Travels Through Azerbaijan Russia
eXile editor Alexander Zaitchik travels to Azerbaijan and finds The Holy Post-Soviet Travel Grail: a deathscape of trash fires, abandoned oil derricks, ghost processing plants, crumbling concrete structures and the decaying carcasses of Baku street dogs.
March 27, 2008 Photo Essay: Balakhani, Azerbaijan Russia
Nowhere does Azerbaijan look less like a 21st-century energy powerhouse than in the township of Balakhani, just north of Baku. Here hundreds of rusted and decrepit pumps suck the last remaining barrels out of the nearly exhausted fields.
January 26, 2008 Russia and the West in the Year of the Rat The Cold War Report
Two thousand and eight is the year of the Rat, but 2007 was the year of Fun when it came to Russia and the West. Oh, how we laughed! Daily new threats were hurled, dark comparisons made, and old treaties shredded and replaced with new weapons programs. In the biggest yuck of all, Ed Lucas got a book deal...
December 11, 2007 The Cornerstone Crumbles The Cold War Report
This week Russia suspended its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe. Why? And who cares?
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December 6, 2007 Megatons and Memory Holes The Cold War Report
A couple of months ago I did something I’ve always wanted to do: I co-starred in a date-scene film montage...
November 19, 2007 Edward Lucas' Cold War Hustle The Cold War Report
If you're reading this from the apparent safety of your Western country, then the Economist's Edward Lucas has bad news for you: You are not safe. Vladimir Putin is on the verge of conquering and enslaving you.
November 5, 2007 Retro MADness The Cold War Report
Alexander Zaitchik kicks off a new column that looks at U.S.-Russian relations in the tense twilight of the Bush-Putin era.
October 8, 2007 Inside the Zone Feature Story
Fifty years after the world’s first major nuclear accident, radiation is still leaking into the Southern Urals — and beyond.
September 18, 2007 Preview Review: Rambo IV Kino Korner
Who is Rambo going to battle this time? One thing is for sure, he isn't going to get even within 5,000 miles of the Middle East. And, anyway, who says he's going to fight?
September 13, 2007 Destricted: But is it Porn? Kino Korner
Destricted would be a lot easier to take if the producers had titled it, Pretentious Pricks. But this is supposed to be Very Serious Stuff—it opened at Tate! There was even jumbo shrimp at the reception!
July 13, 2007 The Squawk-ic Avenger Kino Korner
Troma-on-the-Moskva: Lloyd Kaufman is still the hardest farting man in show business
June 29, 2007 The Chickens Of Chelyabinsk Unfiled
Most of the world has never heard of Chelyabinsk. New to the country, I hadn't either until last
June 15, 2007 The Primacy Primate Unfiled
An invisible 500-pound gorilla haunts the missile-defense debate.
June 1, 2007 Preview Reviews Kino Korner
EAGLE VS. SHARK Directed by Taika Waititi Anyone remember a small budget mid-90s Australian
May 18, 2007 Kino Korner Kino Korner
INLAND EMPIRE Directed by David Lynch "It won't be much longer now," says the rabbit-suit lady...
May 4, 2007 The Bored Whore Of Kyoto Feature Story
Kyoto gave Putin all sorts of environmental credibility, which suited the Russian president like a negligee on Andre the Giant.
April 20, 2007 Preview Review Kino Korner
28 WEEKS LATER Opens Moscow May 10 Remember the fighter plane that roared so low over the survivors at the
March 23, 2007 Russia Goes Ballistic Unfiled
Tactical nukes may soon be returning to Eruope, thanks to plans for missile defense bases in Eastern Europe. Alexander Zaitchik examines the state of U.S./NATO-Russia relations and sees nothing but more bad mojo ahead.
November 17, 2006 Jesus Tweak! Unfiled
Forget the gay hooker; was Pastor Ted a full-on tweaker?
March 24, 2006 Part VI: Nerdicide Gandhi Porn
Indian students are not only studying, they're also dying...
March 7, 2006 Part V: Bride Burning Gandhi Porn
A special International Women's Day look at all the ways women die in India...
February 24, 2006 Gandhi Porn Unfiled
How many ways do Indians kill themselves? Let Gandhi Porn count the ways...
January 27, 2006 Indian Blotter Gandhi Porn
Getting crushed in India, from every imaginable direction...
December 15, 2005 Indian Blotter: Caste Conflict Gandhi Porn
The Indian Blotter returns with a look at the violent mess in Bihar province, where dirty cops, landowners and Maoist rebels compete to up the body count...
December 2, 2005 Indian Blotter Gandhi Porn
The first installment of a new column examining all of the ways there are to die in India.
August 23, 2002 Bozos in Budapest Book Review
As a publishing industry event, Arthur Phillip's Prague had to happen. As literature, the book has no reason to exist...
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Dyev's Diary By Lyolya Androsova
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Pourquoi L'Exile
Feature Story By eXile Staff
The time has come for the eXile to shake off its decrepit English-language shackles and appear in glorious French—just in time for Bastille Day! Editor Matt Taibbi and Special Guest Translator Thierry Marignac explain why...
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The Sociopath examines the gradual transformation of the traditional American image of the average Frenchman from impossibly snobbish buffoon to an anti-market saboteur who is nothing short of the inheritor of the rank of the Soviet Union's as the United
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The Paris Bureau of the eXile Sports Desk looks into the recent "triumphs" of the French soccer team and the fate of "doping" at the Tour de France...
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Kino Korner By Kevin McElwee
Krazy Kevin looks into the under-appreciated GoodFellas-influenced BLOW, while also finding a few spare moments to casually dismiss the idiotic MISS CONGENIALITY and ALONG CAME A SPIDER...
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Forward-looking French businesses are primed and ready to storm the Bastille of the Russian market... just as their revolutionary counterparts did in Paris back in 1789......
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