A pro-Ukrainian arms exchange between Ecuador and the United States has led to a steep decrease in banana imports to Russia.

According to the Russian state, produce prices are currently at "normal" levels.

Thousands of endangered birds and other animals have been poisoned with an illegal pesticide in Stavropol Krai.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country has lost approximately 400,000 tons of grain to theft by Russian troops.

Russian combatants occupying Melitopol, Ukraine, have fallen ill after eating poisoned cherries.

The chairman of the African Union has announced a trip to Kyiv to discuss the world food crisis caused by the invasion.

The price of an Eastern European staple has doubled in Ukraine.

4.5 million tons of grain cannot exported from Ukrainian ports. 

Police search for perpetrator guilty of killing an entire herd of horses in a deadly rivalry between farmers. 

In which, after not a small bureaucratic scuffle, a thirteen-year-old boy receives the gift from Putin that we all are really hoping for this Christmas: a brand new cow. 

On December 12, 1801, 23-year-old Tsar Alexander I issued an ukaz. This particular decree was not something historians have considered extremely significant in the scheme of Alexander’s reign, but it merits attention for a few reasons.

In this week's Odder News, a wedding that sends the cast of a French musical to Africa, Moscow's new tiny flats, and Russia's trash is piling up.