Wife And Bounty Hunter

A Russian woman who murdered her would-be rapist was recently given a 50,000 ruble gift (that's about $1500, for those of you without the ruble-dollar exchange rate at your fingertips) in appreciation of the act. The money, collected by the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (MAII) from its members, was called "a noble outburst of the soul" by the woman's husband, and the pair happily pocketed the cash.

While this whole thing at first glance fills me with a sort of "Woo Hoo, Chicks! Yay Russians For Loving Tough Women!" swell of pride, it turns out that MAII is a Russian nationalist group whose members were perhaps more impressed by the fact that the dead guy was an ethnic Armenian than anything else. You see, these pure-bred Russians feel that people from the Caucuses "do not respect Slavs enough," and should be kept out of Russia. Or, apparently, killed. Oh dear.

No word yet on if they've paid any other bounties.