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Reality TV on Vodka

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From “Mother Russia,” at Tablet today, on the latest reality show to hit Brighton Beach:

The astute viewer will notice that, in both of these interludes, Kosov is wearing a large Star of David pendant that dangles above her dramatically pushed-up cleavage. In a phone interview this week, she said the message she heard was clear: “I’m looking for a Russian Jewish guy.” But, on the show, the word Jewish never enters the dialogue—not in an aside to the camera, not with Kosov’s mother, and not, eventually, with Paul, who gets the heave-ho over a plate of tuna tartare.

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Exporting the “Pro-Life” Movement to Russia

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Last month the Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement that supported Moscow’s squashing of the gay pride parade there.  But it seems limiting the rights of gays isn’t the only issue on which the church has found a chance to work with the state.  The New York Times reports that the Russian government and the ROC are working together to keep the native Russian population from being overrun by immigrants by fostering a US-like “pro-life” movement. Continue Reading →

Exporting the "Pro-Life" Movement to Russia

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Last month the Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement that supported Moscow’s squashing of the gay pride parade there.  But it seems limiting the rights of gays isn’t the only issue on which the church has found a chance to work with the state.  The New York Times reports that the Russian government and the ROC are working together to keep the native Russian population from being overrun by immigrants by fostering a US-like “pro-life” movement. Continue Reading →

The Cost of Eternal Life

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“Cryonics is my only hope that I will ever meet my grandmother again.”  A new company in Russia, KrioRus, will freeze the brain ($10,000) and body ($30,000 for both) of the dead in the hopes that advancing technology will bring them resurrection some time in the future.  KrioRus is the first cryonics company outside the US, reports BioEdge.  So much for seeing grandma in heaven.

Cryonics Institute (“Your last best chance for life…”) provides an analysis of operating cryonics companies here.  You can read more about cryonics at the American Cryonics Society (“Is there light at the end of the tunnel?”) website. Continue Reading →