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 The War Nerd talks about babies, the greatest weapon of the 20th century.
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 A website for Russian kids to learn all about President Medvedev's passion for school, sports and family.
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 If this girl was exposed to Jeffersonian democracy...
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 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...
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 We took the Pepsi Challenge here...
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Yasha Levine56 ARTICLES
 March 28, 2008 Yair Klein: Russia's "Other" Viktor Bout World
Never heard of an arms dealer named Yair Klein? He's no Viktor Bout, but he's equipped and trained some of the most notorious paramilitary outfits out there—from Nicaraguan death squads to the child armies of Sierra Leone. eXile editor Yasha Levine attends his extradition hearings and tells his story.
 March 13, 2008 Interview With A Russian Serial Killer Russia
Alexander Pichushkin, the silver-medal serial killer known as “The Bittsevsky Park Maniac” recently gave the Russian tabloid Tvoi Den an exclusive interview, which we’ve translated for your reading pleasure.
 March 10, 2008 Driving Russia's Dangerous Roads Automotive Section
Buckle up, dear reader, and join me as I tour Russia's notorious highways with the critical eye of a Western journalist...
 February 18, 2008 Zen and the Art of Volga Ownership Automotive Section
Two months ago, an eXile editor became became a proud owner of his very first Volga. Here's what he had to go through to get there.
 January 24, 2008 Revisiting 12: Mikhalkov's "Oscar-Worthy" Remake Kino Korner
The morons at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have nominated his unwatchable remake of Twelve Angry Men for an Oscar. Everyone knows the Oscars are a freakin' joke, but even they're too good for a no-talent fluffer like Mikhalkov.
 December 10, 2007 Sushi Badness Restaurant Review
I forgot about my chick's birthday last weekend and found myself in a real bind. I needed to come up with something quick, and I could only think of one option: expensive sushi.
 November 21, 2007 Taxi Driver: Gypsy Cab Confessions in Moscow Automotive Section
An eXile editor embarks on an assignment to learn what life is like for one of Moscow's most familiar, and most under-appreciated species: the gypsy cabbie.
 September 25, 2007 Hell On Wheels: 24 Hours Without Legs In Moscow Feature Story
What does it feel like to be disabled in Russia? There are many ways to tackle an issue as painful and disturbing as this, so I chose the most painful, yet lightning-quick angle possible: get my own Russian wheelchair, go native, and do the Disabled Like Me story.
 September 25, 2007 A Case Study Of A Disabled Person Russia
Since my approach to the "Where Are Moscow's Handicapped?" mystery was itself handicapped by its own inherent flaws, I put the question to the experts at Perspektiva, the disabled-rights NGO.
 August 10, 2007 TOXOPLASMA Unfiled
TG influences every nuance of your personality. It determines how you feel when you wake up in the morning, your career path, how you relate to others, the quality of you mating partner - you name it, TG controls it. And there's no cure. Once it sinks into your brain, you're a slave for life.
August 10, 2007 Preview Review: The Kingdom Kino Korner
he Kingdom in the title doesn't refer to the Kingdom that gave us Pat Robertson, but the Kingdom that gave us bin Laden. A cross between CSI, Team America, and Blackhawk Down, the movie revolves around a can-do American forensic team in the heart of Sunni darkness, Saudi Arabia.
 July 13, 2007 Russia's Mullet Revolution Feature Story
You thought the mullet would never come back. That it had passed into the dustbin of hairdo history, forever
July 13, 2007 Katz 2 U: I'll B Back... Club Review
Last week, Hannah Katz temporarily resigned as The eXile's club reviewer. We are sorry to report that she was diagnosed with a serious illness
June 15, 2007 Reintroducing: The Democratic Party Of Russia Unfiled
In this first installment of Election Coverage, Yasha Levine looks at the strange ups and downs of a shell company called "The Democratic Party of Russia"...
 June 1, 2007 Who Whacked Kozlov? Russia
This one is big. Not as big as the UK charging Lyskovoi for the world's first radioactive contract kill, but big nonetheless.
May 4, 2007 Radioactive Flotsam Russia
Russia is about to begin building a fleet of floating nuclear power plants. But the risk of meltdowns at sea is just the most obvious problem with the program. Among the eager customers is Indonesia, home to numerous terror groups and...
May 4, 2007 Preview Reviews Kino Korner
DIE HARD 4: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD Opens in the US on June 27th Judging by the title, you'd think this movie was
April 20, 2007 The H-Bomb Unfiled
If you don't have herpes (yet) you probably know somebody who does. In his new health column, Dr. Yasha Levine offers a sobering 101 in the most common and underrated STD out there.
 March 6, 2007 Top 10 Most Likely First Ladies! Feature Story
This International Women's Day, the eXile compiles a list of the post-Putin Era's possible First Ladies. Photos, stats, gossip and more...
February 23, 2007 Did Frenkel Kill The Reformer? Unfiled
The man accused of ordering a contract hit on "reformer" Central Bank deputy Andrei Kozlov is releasing letters to the Russian press casting doubt on Kozlov's "reformist" credentials, and on the entire Russian banking system...
 February 8, 2007 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
Soon, tourists with enough cash will be able to stay in the room where Putin was born.
 January 26, 2007 Indie In Moscow? Feature Story
For years Moscow has been known as the cultural Cheese Capital of Eastern Europe, but is it changing? Yasha takes a dip in Moscow's indie scene and tells you all about it
January 26, 2007 Shity Wok Restaurant Review
This new mall-style all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet opened up across the street from Smolenskaya on the ground floor of a
January 26, 2007 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
From the Russian rumor-mill: Contemporary art in St. Petersburg. Mayor Valentina Matvienko's painting talents exposed!
December 29, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
You heard that Russia plans to shut down, isolate and regulate its booming gambling business in 2009. But did you know that Moscow plans to do it next year?
 December 15, 2006 Platzkart Hell Feature Story
Yasha Levine takes an 18-hour ride on the infamous platzkart -- and barely survives to tell the tale...
December 1, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
Can intentional poisoning explain the surge in Russia's alcohol-related poisonings
November 17, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
More kompromat from Russia's black-suitcase rumor mill...
October 20, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
Rumors and realities about the American runaway bride in Kyrgyzstan, and an assassinated Central Banker's strange hitmen...
September 22, 2006 Moscow's Mysterious Booze Unfiled
How is it that Moscow's clubs and restaurants are able to stock your favorite booze at the old prices, while in supermarkets, the price has skyrocketed? Yasha Levine slurs...
September 22, 2006 Ass Wiping with the eXile Unfiled
The eXile is a great paper. Not only does it make for a good read, but can also be good for the occasional
September 22, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
One United Russia deputy refuses to hand in her blue siren...while recently-murdered Central Bank deputy Andrei Kozlov's unsavory past is revisited...
September 8, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
Meet Yeltsin's "lost" grandson, Gleb "Special Ed" Dyachenko...
August 11, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
A DEDOVSHINA MYSTERY A LA AGATHA CHRISTIE? Everyone remembers Andrey Sychev, the young Russian army private who
August 11, 2006 Hot Afternoons in Armenia's Frozen Zone Unfiled
While the rest of the eXile is on vacation, Yasha was sweating his ass off in a frozen conflict. Here's a preview of the next issue that's bound to come out next week
July 15, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
What's the skinny on G8 preparations?
June 29, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
Are multistory apartments out of fashion in Moscow
June 16, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
Are cops sweeping undesirables from Petersburg's streets before the G-8 Summit?...
June 2, 2006 Horse Cents Unfiled
How betting at the Hippodrome works...
June 2, 2006 Kompromat Korner Unfiled
A special extended Russian Journalism Porn edition...
May 19, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
From the Russian rumor mill: what's behind the recent customs firings? Plus a lawsuit against Zhirinovsky...
April 21, 2006 Kiosk Krawl Russia
The Krewl Kiosk Krawl: six Moscow food kiosks in six days.
April 21, 2006 Kompromat Korner Unfiled
A brief roundup of Russia's rumormill...
April 7, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
The latest from Russia's hyperactive rumor mill...
March 24, 2006 Kompromat Korner Kompromat Korner
The latest from Russia's hyperactive rumor mill...
March 7, 2006 Enter The Tanning Salon Unfiled
Yasha Levine enters the mythical Tanning Salon to understand the ways of the over-browned Russian dyev...
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Pourquoi L'Exile
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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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The new Cold War smells like shit, tastes like shit, and, as our stool sample shows, makes us gag like shit...finally, proof that a billion flies are wrong.
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