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

In this week's Odder News, a city mayor uses TikTok and Grand Theft Auto to communicate with his constituents, the Teletubbies show up in Norilsk, and a Perm barn is sacrificed to TikTok.

“I also don’t know that they would be able to work in the President’s administration. I do not think there is a division in the administration that deals with sports nutrition.”

– Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov

Daily stretching and exercise are the secrets to a long and healthy life—and lots of gold badges. 

As spring heats slowly to the rapid days of summer, the canines of Russia are kept on their paws with special challenges of their own.

It's not very often that you see the mayor of a city get punished by a group of school-age children, but that's exactly what happened in Krasnoyarsk when mayor Sergei Eryomin lost a challenge.

The non-doping "Russia" won three out of four events at the recent world figure skating championships and swept the ladies' podium.

In this week's Odder News, Russia goes wild for Yuri Gagarin, a new law against potty mouths backfires, and a four-day workweek may be imminent.

The ultimate St. Petersburg film is coming to a Netflix account near you.

In this week's Odder News: the Play-Doh version of Moscow, the Russian version of Irish whiskey, and the Red Bull version of ice skating.

For all your zombie apocalypse / Texas boar hunting / frontier bank-robbing needs, we present the Russian revolver shotgun.

Russian Alexei Molchanov is in the spotlight as the world's best freediver.