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Friday, September 25, 2026

Russia Allegedly Went Shopping for a Hitman

 IN THE GRAND OLD TRADITION OF STALIN ORDERING TROTSKY MURDERED IN MEXICO: Russia Allegedly Went Shopping for a Hitman in America. The Price Was $40,000. 

“An indictment unsealed in Manhattan charges five people with working in a network tied to Russian intelligence services. Prosecutors say the network recruited people in America to surveil Russian dissidents and, in at least one case, tried to recruit someone to carry out a killing here. All five defendants remain at large.”


The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prizeinclude papers on “a more precise definition of kissing”, “An Aerodynamic Study of the Nose Blowing”, and the discovery “that milk proteins from cockroaches pack 3X as much energy as milk proteins from cows”.