We sent our Russian war photographer to a haunted house in New York City

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Brian Ries
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We sent our Russian war photographer to a haunted house in New York City
A deranged man with a gun encounters visitors to Nightmare NYC, a haunted house in New York, NY, on Oct. 19, 2014. Credit: Evgeny Feldman

NEW YORK -- Evgeny Feldman has dutifully documented the conflict in eastern Ukraine for much of the past year for Mashable. His photos -- which have captured the Russian occupation (and eventual annexation) of Crimea, Soviet-era parades in Moscow and what life is like in Ukraine's rebel-held city of Donetsk -- have vividly shown our readers the conflict through his camera lens.

Earlier this month Evgeny took some well-deserved time off to visit us here in New York City. First, we bought him lunch. Then we did what any other media outlet would do when a war photographer tells you he has his camera and some free time while on his very first trip to the United States. We sent him to a haunted house.

Upon entering Nightmare NYC, a Manhattan attraction that reimagines what NYC was like before the hipsters took over, we asked Evgeny: "Do you have haunted houses in Russia or Ukraine?"

"No," he replied. "We just have Donetsk."

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