A few things were notably absent (and present) from this year's Victory Day parade.

A recommendation on how many pancakes you should eat during Maslenitsa.

A survey reveals the top gifts for Women's Day in 2024.

A Krasnoyarsk Zoo hedgehog has predicted an early spring.

Russians share their hopes for 2024.

Every September 3, and on nine other days of the year, the city of Volgograd will change its name back to Stalingrad.

Zelensky proclaims May 9 "Europe Day" before the WWII anniversary.

A United Russia legislator pretended to be in Vologda but was actually in Dubai. A picture with Ksenia Shoigu gave him away.

Ukraine, parts of Russia, and cities in Latvia banned fireworks for New Year's celebrations over concerns about the war.

The Russian military has assured local governments that they don't need to worry about canceling New Years' festivities because of the mobilization and conflict in Ukraine.

“Independence Day will have a different meaning this year. Us Ukrainians love our freedom. We can say what we believe. My friends in Russia say they have a democracy. What kind of democracy is it if you cannot call a war a war?” 

                                   – A Russian living in Ukraine, Tatyana Antonova

“This year’s Journalist’s Day has a special taste of bitterness. The fourth month of a full–scale war – and we lost 32 journalists… In eight years of war we lost even more. Eternal memory to our fighters of the advanced information front."

– Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko