Don't help your kids on Russian ski slopes; you could lose your lift ticket.

Yury Borisov, chief of Roskosmos, announced Russia's plan to abandon the International Space Station in 2024.

Usually staid cosmonaut fashion raises some eyebrows with suspiciously Ukrainian-tinted coloration.

In this week's Odder News, good luck finding your bus, good luck getting your caviar order, and the cosmos is about to get boring.

In this week's Odder News, don't drink and drive your tractor, ticket-taking grandmothers are surprisingly entertaining, and the Russians win the new space race by a hair.

In this week's Odder News, polling stations get wild, a family cat saves the day, and where in Russia is the head of the last Kazakh khan?

In this week's Odder News, a skydiver plunges into family breakfast, Russian and American actors fly into space, and robots are taking over.

While the U.S. Pentagon teases knowing the truth about UFOs, Volgograd continues to attract more of them... supposedly... than anywhere else.

“I think he has already been born. I think he is already in school studying or in kindergarten. And of course, he is not alone. A great country will certainly appear.”

– On June 5, Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, on where the Russian Elon Musk is.

In this week's Odder News, Russians are geeked about UFOs, past and present collide, and Steven Seagal becomes a real-life special agent.

“I think we're close to establishing Tesla's presence in Russia, and that would be great. And more broadly, also in Kazakhstan and neighboring regions.”

– On May 21, entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that the Tesla line would soon make it to markets in Russia, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries.

In this week's Odder News, visit Dracula's castle, Moscow's hidden subway stations, and the Russian cosmos.