A new series has taken Russia by storm this summer. Set in a provincial Caucasian town, Chiki (Chicks) is about four girlfriends trying to escape their lives as sex workers and launch a fitness club – the first in the area.

Public transportation in Moscow is getting an electric facelift, but one trolleybus line will remain, in homage to this mode of transportation.

Forbes recently released a list of the highest-earning Instagram bloggers in Russia, several of whom use their account to share details of motherhood.

The musical group is facing a 12 million ruble lawsuit for plagiarism.

This week, mammoths are ripe for the picking; fishy business practices turn violent; and a TV show is labelled a bad influence on Russian families.

“I have nothing to share.”

– Comedian Maksim Galkin in response to journalists asking him about rumors of divorce between him and his wife, the musical icon Alla Pugacheva.

Was it aliens? Secret nuclear testing? Bigfoot? The Russian Prosecutor-General's office claims to have solved one of Soviet Russia's most perplexing mysteries.

Russian pop experimentalist Kate NV had her video voted the #1 best music video of May by Pitchfork.

This week's Odder News features monuments for dead villages, ancient memes, and a mirror for Putin.

A lovely short film on Brighton Beach's Your Highness Babushka Beauty Contest.

“On the day of his 80th birthday, Brodsky returned to Pestel Street—he is looking directly at his balcony in the house where he lived, those same one and a half rooms from where he left forever. But poets always return.”

– Creators of a large graffiti display depicting the poet Joseph Brodsky

One of Russia’s beloved comedians wrote a song about quarantine, and performed it in an unusual manner.