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Jake Rudnitsky56 ARTICLES June 29, 2007 Burnt By The Pun Kino Korner
BURNT BY THE PUN Nikita Mikhailkov's film festival is as sorry as he is. Last week at the opening ceremony of the
November 17, 2006 Apartment With A View Restaurant Review
Now that the eXile's debranded, I guess we're going to have to get used to this kind of restaurant fawning
November 3, 2006 Hasta La Hacienda! Restaurant Review
First, some disappointing news for all you provincial expat.ru folks who believe Mexican food is best
September 8, 2006 Slaves Of The Sadovoe Koltso Feature Story
Renters beware! Moscow's landlords are finally starting to wake up to the fact that the capital's real estate market is going berserk.
August 25, 2006 Cherkizovsky’s Da Bomb! Restaurant Review
With the eXile's infallible instinct for the scoop, Yasha and I were hanging out at Cherkizovsky Rynok the
August 11, 2006 Extreme Murse-Over Feature Story
The eXile im-murses itself in the uniquely Russian-male habit of carrying a man-purse, in an in-depth study...Of Murse and Men...
June 16, 2006 Moscow Land Grab! Feature Story
Well-connected vultures are feasting on choice real estate pickings from Strastnoi Bulvar to Butovo, and there's nothing regular Muscovites can do to protect themselves
June 2, 2006 Horsing Around Feature Story
The eXile takes you behind the scenes at Moscow's oldest gambling establishment, the Hippodrome!
April 21, 2006 Mayonaisse Nation Feature Story
Join Rudnitsky as he tours the Mecca of Russia - a genuine mayonaisse factory...
March 7, 2006 Perm-a-farce Feature Story
The eXile checks out mayoral elections in Perm for a reminder of what democracy was like in the Yeltsin era! PERM
February 24, 2006 Scared Skins Feature Story
Everyone knows about the skinhead problem in Russia. But what about Russia's version of SHARP skins, known as "AntiFA" skinheads? Jake Rudnitsky discovers that they're about as shy and rare as a dugong...
January 27, 2006 Freaky Bribenomics Feature Story
Two corruption scandals - Riemann in Russia and Abramoff in the US - prove one thing: Americans are cheap as hell to buy off!
January 27, 2006 Pre-teen Sandwiches Restaurant Review
One idea that's time is long overdue in Moscow is the neighborhood deli. It really shouldn't be that hard to
December 28, 2005 Birthing Pains Feature Story
Welcome to Roddom #25, one of the best maternity wards in Russia...and a cruel joke for the poor pregnant mothers it is supposed to take care of...
November 4, 2005 Shooting A Blue Elephant Restaurant Review
What with the unrelenting criticism the eXile's been catching at the hands of expat.ru fanatics,
October 7, 2005 Propaganda Marathon Feature Story
The eXile endures an entire week straight of Putin-era TV Propaganda...and it's not exactly what you'd expect...
September 23, 2005 Ahead Of The Times! Feature Story
An eXile investigative eXclusive: the story of how the Moscow Times failed to follow up on a possible fraud story about about its top advertisers because they were "in a state of transition at the time"...
September 9, 2005 Shanti-town Restaurant Review
It's only been a week since I returned from an extended vacation in the culinary paradise that is America, but I've found at least one thing to be
June 17, 2005 American History X Unfiled
Comparing Russia's bad ol' Russian textbooks to America's shining examples of how we force our children to confront all of our painful genocides...by pretending that they never happened...
February 11, 2005 Bananarama Restaurant Review
Indian food's always been the exception that proved the rule about ethnic food in Moscow. For some reason, maybe owing
December 10, 2004 Donetsk Paper Tigers Feature Story
DONETSK -- Donetsk is a fascist city. I'm not using this term in the cheap way that it gets bandied around
November 13, 2004 Blue Moon Restaurant Review
Despite Moscow's alleged restaurant boom, eating out at a new joint in this town is usually a chore. Even when the food's
September 17, 2004 Ukrainians In the Mist Feature Story
For anyone who's been paying an unhealthy amount of attention to the Ukrainian presidential election campaign, Aleksandr Rzhavsky is the "honest" candidate. T
August 19, 2004 Wreck the Wreckers! Unfiled
The legal process and our court system must be directed at crushing these wreckers
June 24, 2004 Toxic Felis Feature Story
Guinness Book of World Records lists Dzerzhinsk as "the most polluted small city in the world"
June 10, 2004 Easy Does It Book Review
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
May 27, 2004 Lincoln Log Livin' Feature Story
With the exception of electricity, the folks living there aren't much better off than the people who built the buildings 100 years ago...
April 29, 2004 It's the Drugs, Stupid Kino Korner
There's something particularly depressing about Jim Carrey's opening monologue in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
April 22, 2004 There and Back Again Unfiled
Nothing makes Moscow look better than spending nine months living in a northern Manhattan tenement with a bunch of Nigerians...
April 16, 2004 Facial Humilation Feature Story
Hulking, crew-cut gangsters have vanished from central Moscow, replaced by a far more dangerous breed: the feis kontrol goon.
March 18, 2004 Amerikanskie Siloviki Feature Story
The real "Rise of the Siloviki," began on September 11, 2001, and not in Russia but in the United States
March 4, 2004 Viva la Resistance! Unfiled
Welcome to Warsaw, hub of the exiled Belarussian opposition movement. All twenty of 'em.
February 19, 2004 Solidarity Forever! Feature Story
Just over a year ago, the US media rallied around labor activist Irene Stevenson when she was refused entry to Russia. Last week, the center where she worked closed shop.
September 4, 2003 Serfin' USA: Duped Russkies Feature Story
Russians imported to make Whoppers for the summer find out that the grass is in fact greener in America, but that doesn’t it make life suck any less.
March 20, 2003 Escape from Tynda Unfiled
Towards the end of my stay, perversion, paranoia and violence were circling closer than ever...
March 3, 2003 JunkYard Feature Story
All the bloody details about Tynda’s raging smack problem, including the address of the only place in town where you can score!
February 20, 2003 Fit to Print? In New York? Unfiled
It isn’t every day you catch a journalist blowing their own lie. I’m talking about incontrovertible evidence, a smoking gun...
January 22, 2003 Bleak House Feature Story
The Solnyshko orphanage seems pretty grim to the outsider, but for the children living there,it ’s the time of their lives.
January 22, 2003 Tynda Update Unfiled
Tynda’s got permafrost, which means, if you get buried here, your body forever stays as fresh as it was on the day you died.
December 11, 2002 Not Dead Yet Feature Story
A small nomadic tribe in the taiga is still keeping it real, despite Russia’s best efforts to break them.
June 28, 2002 Wanking Here Unfiled
Runitsky guides a Dutch TV crew around Moscow whore market
May 16, 2002 From Chelni To Guantanomo Feature Story
I arrived in Chelni with my CNN and Disney informed image of foul smelling Islamic fundamentalist psychos whose minds have been warped by an overdose of Koran-feeding. I hoped to get a glimpse into the culture that spawned such radicals.
March 6, 2002 Spy vs Spy Unfiled
On Tuesday, February 26, the disgraced Ukrainian Olympic team returned to Kiev’s Borispol airport neither a welcoming committee nor a bronze medal to show for their (admittedly mediocre) efforts. Had brass medals been awarded to fourth place finishes, Ukr
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The eXile mercilessly torments a little-known New Jersey internet consultant...
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