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Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev writes a "no war please" message on a camera after a match. 

A letter from a friend, from the front lines in St. Petersburg.

"Total donations to the APU in cryptocurrency have grown to $12.7 million. This is just two days! Most of all donations are made to Ethereum - $5.5 million, Bitcoin - $4.4 million, Tether - $2.1 million."

– Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation, speaking on cryptocurrency donations to the army 

News, states, quotes and notes from around Russia.

A comparison of Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014 vs. the invasion of all of Ukraine in 2022 (written two weeks prior to the invasion)

In recent months the Russian press corps has been honing its euphemistic language skills, wondering how to talk crap.

In which we look at Finno-Ugric words that have made their way into the Russian Language. (Click title to download PDF.)

Dubbed the “Mother Teresa of Dagestan,” Aishat Magomedova wanted something very simple: to give the women of Dagestan access to quality health care. Apparently, she did too good a job.

The life of a street musician is not an easy one. But it is one thing to busk with a guitar or pan flute, quite another to have to set up a complex vertical xylophone made of bottles.

The Novosibirsk Zoo in Siberia announced that, for 2022, its new mascot would be chosen by a public vote. It turned into a scandal.

Excerpt from a newly published memoir, an autobiographical account of an engineer swept up into Stalin's Gulag.

In a remote corner of Siberia, the last of a family of Old Believers lives her life in a state of time out of time. With a little help from some friends.