Russian kids are caught up in a toy craze, and the government is worried about how it might be influencing them.

Are you a Moscow Maniac or a Petersburg Patrician? It's time to take a side!

A Yakut school's graduating class consisted of only one student, which means he receives all of our congratulations.

Grow parsley for the wrong reason and you could land up in jail.

The Moscow City Duma is proposing safety regulations that will help prevent Muscovites from scootering into peril. 

The Sandfest returns to the shores of St. Petersburg with global travel themes.

How to counter the "shameful" designation of "foreign agent"? With some bling, of course.

A century-old wrecked icebreaker was just found north of Russia.

Omsk Avangard clinches Russian hockey's Gagarin Cup with some famous NHL faces.

A court case in the city of Perm unveils a story combining three quintessentially Soviet things: bathhouses, religious oppression, and an (extremely) intrusive surveillance state.

These competitors will gladly dig their own graves, but only if it means victory.

While manufacturers generally don't recommend you fly your drone at temperatures below freezing, that didn't stop videographer Vadim Sherbakov from shooting this amazing film depicting a frozen Lake Baikal.