In this week's G-rated Odder News: Kid-friendly World War II history, kid-friendly educational TV, and kid-friendly swearing lessons.

Two sisters lost contact as teenagers in 1942, during their evacuation from the Battle of Stalingrad. They never lost hope they would find each other.

Tuesday was 75th anniversary of the start of the Yalta Conference, the first step in rebuilding the post-War world.

A former KGB agent recently claimed that many Soviet celebrities, including multiple famous actors, were agents of the “special services."

Military reenactors mark the 76th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad with plenty of pyrotechnics.

Russia has everything, including Amazonians.

They could not have been more different, but both these Vladimirs had a huge impact on Russian history.

Ivan the Terrible, notorious not only for being terrible, but also for killing his eldest son, may have finally found his heir.

170 years ago this week, January 15, 1850, the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.

245 years ago this week, on January 10, 1775, the rebel Yemelyan Pugachev was executed in Moscow.

The first months of 1920 was a dark time in Russia. The Civil War was grinding to its grim conclusion and intellectuals were in the crosshairs.

The first earthling to perish in space was the Soviet space dog Laika. Soon thereafter, the first earthlings to orbit the planet – 60 years ago this summer – were Belka and Strelka.