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The journey between Moscow and St. Petersburg is about to get a lot faster.

Formerly an editor of “glossy publications,” Russian writer and editor Alexei Korolev has released his debut novel, Death of Pure Reason. The novel’s “hero” is one Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

In this week's Odder News, blind dueting, cats at work, and the mice who love COVID.

After twenty years outside the public eye, celebrated author Viktor Pelevin comes to Moscow to greet fans and sign books. Or does he?

"The world is absolutely clear to me :) CHEERS.”

– Elena, wine-bearing marathon runner in September’s Galaxy Vladivostok Marathon.

You can find lots of unique and unexpected things when you take a trip into the woods in search of edible mushrooms, but a camel in Nizhny Novgorod seems to be the most outlandish find yet.  

Archaeologists have just completed digging through layers of cultural strata in the middle of the Kremlin, unearthing some interesting finds they totally forgot were down there.

Russia's independent press faces innumerable pressures. Former Russian Life Editor Mikhail Ivanov (1995–2003) describes how economic issues have long plagued the Russian media system.

A decade has passed since an entire Russian professional hockey team was lost in a moment.

A normally quite peaceful board game took a violent turn in Krasoyarsk.

In this week's Odder News, polling stations get wild, a family cat saves the day, and where in Russia is the head of the last Kazakh khan?

A new ranking shows that 4% of the world's best chefs come from Russia.