Russian women: give birth in Syrian prisons, drive metro trains, make news (and borsch), and welcome children home from the dead.

There are two kinds of fast learners: robots and schoolchildren. Meanwhile, an odd cosmonaut tradition comes under siege.

How do you win over the village beauty who has a thing for animals? Kolya is determined to find out.

Presidents eating ice cream, kids reporting toy theft to police… summer is almost over, thank Allah. 

A former lawyer saves 233 lives, and a guy finds hell in Yaroslavl. Also, your next delivery guy might deliver on horseback.

Suing Putin (not over the protests) and selling a babushka's jam.

This week, Russians are caught in the act by means of butter, watermelon, and a controversial color

This week’s “criminals”: politicians with dead souls, chocolate Robin Hoods, kid-conductors, and a woman who just wants to go home.

Tinder, fish soup, and wakeboarding — these make both entertaining pastimes and fantastic publicity stunts.

A funeral for a trolley, a near-funeral for a pianist, and scared birds: all this and more on this week’s TWERF.

It was Nikolayev’s birthday, which in ordinary years would always start bright and early... but this was no ordinary year...

News and brief items from around Russia.