Five men recorded themselves washing their shoes in a holy site in Kaliningrad. Then they overshared.

“This is a special lightweight shoe, which is currently the lightest possible in the world, so that there is no additional load (when it is delivered to orbit).”

– Press release from Faradei shoe company, which recently developed a special shoe for astronauts

A new video surveillance system in Moscow’s metro will enable passengers to pay with a scan of their face.

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

“If the government thinks that it [wearing masks] is necessary, it should provide them free of charge, just like shoe covers are provided free of charge in medical organizations.”

– Alexander Saversky, President of the Russian organization League of Patients' Defenders, who started a petition against wearing masks

In disappointing-but-not-altogether-unexpected news, a prominent Kremlin critic gets hit with tea-borne poisoning.

“Thank you, I have said everything. You can shout 'Leave'.”

– Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in response to workers at the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant

Be careful what QR-codes you scan in Russia, you may be opening yourself up to fraud.

“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.

A street in Kyiv is being renamed in honor of a journalist who helped expose Soviet Ukraine’s deathly famine.

An Armenian-Russian producer is the first Russian producer to be nominated for an Emmy, for his documentary Hate Among Us.

Two cats in Krasnodar are being praised after helping an injured dog cross the street.