Peculiar Viewing Statistics; False I Guess

A blogger I had helped set up told me about this phenomenon a year or so ago, and now it is happening to me. Suddenly my "stats" are showing an obviously false number of "visitors" from Russia and other places.

Here's this morning's stats from this blog:

Pageviews by Countries*

Entry	Pageviews
Russia	2369
United States	495
France	367
Mauritius	117
Germany	98
Israel	76
Ukraine	25
Australia	19
Canada	12
China	12

And here's this morning's stats from Shiloh Musings:

Pageviews by Countries*

Entry	Pageviews
Russia	10025
United States	2475
France	472
Germany	382
Israel	286
Mauritius	119
Ukraine	73
Canada	60
China	47
Australia	45

There's no way that it is accurate. The numbers just don't make sense.

I guess at some point this will end. Does anyone understand how it happens? Have you experienced anything like it?

* for the week