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There are 24 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Yekaterinburg".

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1. Giant Snow Penises Erected Everywhere

Yekaterinburg students are decorating the city with giant phallic snow sculptures, angering authorities and residents alike.

Tags: internet, ice sculpture, winter, snow, Yekaterinburg
2. Airwaves Hacked, Again

A new hack into Russian radio and television stations reveals a vulnerable spot in the nation's airwaves.

Tags: Yekaterinburg, Moscow, television, radio, war in ukraine
3. Security Guard Doodles

A security guard at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center was fired after defacing a $1 million Soviet-era painting. 

Tags: art, soviet era, painting, Moscow, Yekaterinburg
4. Good Deeds, Gas, and Gasless Cars

In this week's Odder News: Kanye comes to town, free gas for eternity, and a young language prodigy.

Tags: eternal flame, cat rescue, rap, china, gas, novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg
5. Grinches, GPS Art, and Gordon Ramsay

In this week's Odder News, Russians are not happy with their gifts, an underwater winter wedding, and cooking for President Putin.

Tags: olympics, hockey, new year's eve, New Year, Irkutsk, lake baikal, Yekaterinburg
6. Charcuterie à la 1984

Fiscal sanctions may be devastating for an economy, but food sanctions are a punch to the gut.

Tags: fine, Yekaterinburg, sanctions, sanction, embargo, sausage, ham, cheese
7. Phallic-Shaped Ice Rinks, Flying Dyed Morozes, and Frightening Elevators

In this week's Odder News, stay out of the elevator, be careful where you ice skate, and Ivan Urgant says goodbye to 2021 in grand fashion.

Tags: dyed moroz, Leningrad Region, novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, ice skating, urgant, pereslid
8. Ageless Youth

The new head of Yekaterinburg's youth commission is perhaps a little older than one might expect.

Tags: city, government, kids, sports, Yekaterinburg, health, childhood, youth
9. Holier Hockey

In which a Russian priest becomes a hockey referee and begins to transform the sport. 

Tags: winter sports, sport, sports, Orthodoxy, Orthodox, Yekaterinburg, hockey
10. Bribes Aren't Funny

Roskomnadzor seems to have a funny bone to pick with the Sverdlovsk government publication Oblastnaya Gazeta, blocking their website in delayed reaction to a questionable text.

Tags: blocked, ban, law, bribes, satire, Yekaterinburg, roskomnadzor

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