This week, we learn that drinking when working from home isn't so bad; it rains birds in Saratov Oblast; and Ramzan Kadyrov is saved from a sinister plot.

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

Russia has fallen under suspicion for testing what some say is an anti-satellite weapon.

A former KGB agent recently claimed that many Soviet celebrities, including multiple famous actors, were agents of the “special services."

Predators, prey, and performance artists take the spotlight in this week’s TWERF.

In which we review Amy Knight's Orders to Kill, Linor Goralik's Found Life, a new translation of Monday Starts on Saturday, and the new novel Gogol's Head.