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Well, this is nuts: THR is reporting the United States Attorney in Manhattan has brought charges against 34 individuals tied up in Russian-American criminal organizations that partly facilitated secret gambling rooms catering to big Hollywood names l...

This isn't the first and it certainly won't be the last time I reference a lousy Sting song in these recaps, but after the knockout that was "Trust Me," I feel I have to dream the Dream of the Blue Turtles once more. "I hope the Russians love their c...

In Russia, Andrei Kirilenko says, there's an old maxim about changing jobs every six years. He's not sure where it comes from, but since 2008, it's applied to even the office of the Russian president. It doesn't matter who you are — six years, ...

Admittedly, we here at Hollywood Prospectus don't spend much time on the fine arts. And, honestly, as long as there's some last tribesman of the Kardashian in existence somewhere (even if it requires a trek into the uninhabitable frozen forests of Si...

An ode to Russian and Eastern European women's tennis players you've vaguely heard of but can't entirely keep straight.

Star Scarlett Johansson Is Depressed: "She was totally out of control in Moscow recently" at a champagne brand's promo event. "She was drinking nonstop and barely slept. It was obvious that she was trying to numb her feelings." She's sad about her b...

In February of this year, the Russian punk band Pussy Riot — 24-year-old Maria Alyokhina, 22-year-old Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and 29-year-old Yekaterina Samutsevich — staged a performance/protest at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, ...

The XXXth Olympic Games are well under way, and much like the previous Games, this one is booooring. You'd think by now that watching a Russian teenager shooting an arrow wildly off target would get the blood going — but no. Not on YouTube and ...

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At Wimbledon, Venus Williams and Kim Clijsters negotiate the ends of their historic careers.

Chelsea Finally Got Some Luck Chelsea have long been blamed for committing modern football's original sin. Just replace the forbidden fruit with a soft drink. As the story goes, in 2003, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich nearly took control of ...

This season, Kenny Powers met his match in Russian pitcher Ivan Dochenko (played by Ike Barinholtz), a mulleted young punk who throws heat and pumps raves. Ivan seems like an obvious callback to Rocky IV's Russian villain Ivan Drago. Here is a series...

Twitter, the race to be "FIRST!" and the changing face of sports news.

Alexander Radulov and Nashville, the battered Bruins, and the rest of the week in the NHL

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To paraphrase the great Russian novelist and 46 defense pioneer Budski Ryanovich: All good football teams are alike; all bad football teams are bad in their own way. This is particularly applicable to the Philadelphia Eagles, who take a 1-4 record to...