St. Petersburg's Grand Maket Rossiya presents a droll and humorous self-reflection of Russian life.

The Fighting Classic Club (Боевая классика) is an informal group of teens who love old Zhigulis. They purchase the aged (often non-functioning) cars for kopeks, restore them, souping them up in their lilliputian garages, and then improvise nighttime races and rallies through city streets, in shopping complex parking lots, or on frozen lakes just outside the city.

A viral video documents an out-of-control tram in Barnaul, and its hapless driver. 

While some countries are considering doing away with coin money, this Russian citizen is still making the most out of their rubles and kopeks. 

In which a raccoon is returned safely back home— but not to the habitat you might expect. 

The hoopla surrounding a new monument at a controversial location in central Moscow highlights the importance of history for Russia – and ourselves.

Surprisingly, a two-bedroom Russian apartment does not make an appropriate habitat for this 13-foot long python.  

News and readings of note from all around Russia.

Just outside St. Petersburg, a small, ancient ethnos comes to terms with its history, its language, and with its inevitable end.

Work in the mines, play on the slopes. This is the life of some sun-starved youth in the Arctic. Oh, and they also ski/snowboard off buildings.