30 restored T-34 tanks have arrived in Moscow and now await Victory Day.

In this week's Odder News, cheerleaders and lawmakers band together, croquet culture spreads to Russia, and youthful exuberance leads to a joyride.

A new exhibit dedicated to the history of tattoos is opening in Moscow.

283 years ago today, Vassily Bazhenov was born. Russian architecture would never be the same.

In this week's Odder News, regions work on ethnic villages, presidents get songs written about them, and coronavirus countermeasures take a surprising twist.

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“Accordingly, the temperature will be seven to eight degrees higher than the climatic norm, which gives reason to say that the current winter will turn out to be the warmest over the last 140 years of instrumental observations in Moscow.”

- Chief Specialist of the Moscow Weather Bureau Tatyana Pozdnyakova

Muscovites are no longer in the dark about the amount of sunlight they got in December: just eight hours.

A panda in the Moscow zoo destroyed a pine tree. It was anything but an accident.

Moscow authorities want you to stop throwing your trees in the trash: they have a plan to re-gift them to the city and the environment. 

Desperate times, and the need to create a festive atmosphere, call for desperate measures. 

Artist Aleksandr Tsypkov and a handful of other artists feel everyone, not just church-goers, should be able to see religious art. So naturally they are tagging bridges and underpasses with "iconic" images.