Enlarge / World of Tanks will remain playable in Russia and Belarus even though developer Wargaming is leaving those countries. Wargaming, the developer behind the massively popular military MMO World of Tanks and its spin-offs, has decided to close its offices in Russia and Belarus amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. In an announcement on […]
Enlarge / A woman wearing a face mask leaves a pharmacy in the town of Podolsk some 40 kilometers outside Moscow on November 12, 2021. (credit: Getty | YURI KADOBNOV ) As Western countries continue to ratchet up sanctions and boycotts against Russia, the country’s citizens are panic-buying medicines, such as antidepressants, sleeping pills, and […]
Maksim Chmerkovskiy is back in Europe. Maks drew a lot of attention after spending a few traumatic days stuck in his native Ukraine at the beginning of the Russian invasion. He was thankfully able to escape and return to the US to reunite with his family, but admitted he felt “survivor’s guilt” and wanted to […]
Months after the tragic loss of Halyna Hutchins, the family is staring another tragedy in the face. The cinematographer, who was accidentally shot by a live round by Alec Baldwin on the set of the western film Rust, was a first generation immigrant. She was born 1979 in Horodets, Zhytomyr Oblast, in the former Soviet Union — which […]
Enlarge For decades now, Vladimir Putin has slowly, carefully, and stealthily curated online and offline networks of influence. These efforts have borne lucrative fruit, helping Russia become far more influential than a country so corrupt and institutionally fragile had any right to be. The Kremlin and its proxies had economic holdings across Europe and Africa […]
Mila Kunis’s heart is with her homeland. The actress recently spoke out against Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, her native country. Alongside husband Ashton Kutcher, she launched a fundraiser for relief efforts that has already raised more than $20 million of their $30 million goal. And that’s just the beginning of her advocacy for the […]
Hayden Panettiere is stepping up. The actress has already been outspoken about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — moreso than anything about her own life the past few years. As you probably know, the Scream 4 star shares her 7-year-old daughter Kaya with a native Ukrainian, former heavyweight champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko. Not only that, his brother […]
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, insight into those most affected — the Ukrainian people — has come from unexpected places. In the United States, powerful statements on the conflict have been made by everyone from Dancing with the Stars ’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy to Mila Kunis to Saturday Night Live . But the most […]
After Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s long and harrowing journey out of Ukraine, the last thing we’d expect would be for him to go back. But that’s exactly what he plans to do. Of course, it was clear from his advocacy for his native country that the Dancing with the Stars pro would continue to speak up and […]
Enlarge (credit: Elena Lacey | Getty Images) On Thursday, hackers defaced a Russian Space Research Institute website and leaked files that they allege are stolen from Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Their message? “Leave Ukraine alone else Anonymous will f*ck you up even more.” Meanwhile a DDoS attack pummeled Russia’s .ru “top level domain,” with […]