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.

Traffic was stopped in Moscow to investigate a suspicious bag, but what was inside wasn’t quite what authorities expected.

A Russian company is partnering with KFC to produce a new type of nugget.

The world-famous billionaire reached out to the family of a Soviet rocket scientist to visit SpaceX.

Russian flight attendants were surveyed to determine the characteristics of an ideal passenger.

The Kremlin said that the president's dirty laundry is not for sale on the internet.