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Ivan Kupala is a traditional Slavic celebration of the summer solstice, with many pagan and deeply symbolic rituals. How are these ancient customs celebrated and recreated today in modern Russia? 

Russia hosted the world's largest synchronized footrace at the end of May.

In this week's Odder News, Russians are geeked about UFOs, past and present collide, and Steven Seagal becomes a real-life special agent.

Get ready for workout videos, dance clips, and photos of avocado toast: Russia's Ministry of Education is considering adding blogging to some curricula.

“The political field lives and evolves, it boils during election campaigns.”

– On Tuesday May 25, Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov praises Russia’s political environment.

The world's luckiest ferret is set to go on the vacation of a lifetime in the Altai mountains. 

The thirteen tales in this volume – all written by Russian émigrés, writers who fled their native country in the early twentieth century – contain a fair dose of magic and mysticism, of terror and the supernatural. There are Petersburg revenants, grief-stricken avengers, Lithuanian vampires, flying skeletons, murders and duels, and even a ghostly Edgar Allen Poe.

After a year of education through computer screens and the internet, one Russian school looks to bring the screens back into the physical classroom with a robotic teacher. 

Russian kids are caught up in a toy craze, and the government is worried about how it might be influencing them.

Are you a Moscow Maniac or a Petersburg Patrician? It's time to take a side!

A Yakut school's graduating class consisted of only one student, which means he receives all of our congratulations.

Grow parsley for the wrong reason and you could land up in jail.