“Snrrf.” *crunching sound* *laughter* “Pant, pant…”

– A fox as it thieves a camera from tourists in Kamchatka on September 8.

How does Baba Yaga celebrate her special day? Head to Yekaterinberg to find out.

A young Russian blogger and his accomplice published a video of vehicular hooliganism on September 1.

Covid’s got a sun sign, and Russian television personality and astrologer Vasilisa Volodina is out to break the virus some bad news.

A new village police station, unveiled with much pomp, occupies what appears to be a repurposed corrugated metal shed.

In Moscow, a pair of legs with hot red stilettos on one end and a plush purple QR code at the other flounced down a Moscow street and into a restaurant.

In this week's Odder News, Russian highway drivers stop for a duckling crossing, a woman fakes her own kidnapping and pays for it, and what does it signify if two black sphynx cats cross your path?

In Russian, as in English, it isn’t nice to call someone “stupid.” But sometimes you just have to say it.

News of Britney Spears’s recent appearance in court has crossed the globe, and a well-meaning group of supporters in Russia have taken offense at her plight.

“Everything in the world displeases me, but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.”

– “Darth Putin” on Twitter parodies Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments after his meeting with Joe Biden on Wednesday, June 16

In this week's Odder News, we have mutant dolphins, wild rappers, and (of course) vintage Zhigulis.

Honk honk! There's a swan in the middle of the road.