While the U.S. Pentagon teases knowing the truth about UFOs, Volgograd continues to attract more of them... supposedly... than anywhere else.

In this week's Odder News, marked up sandwiches, magic suitcases, and Chadian soldiers as alarm clocks.

“Simple and reliable, like a Kalashnikov assault rifle.”

– Putin's assessment of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, broadcast on television channel Russia 24 on May 6.

In this week's Odder News, a military band delights a kindergarten class with songs from cartoons, Russian food might be able to make it in New York, and a Moscow nurse has had enough of this pandemic.

For all your zombie apocalypse / Texas boar hunting / frontier bank-robbing needs, we present the Russian revolver shotgun.

Looking for work? Moscow authorities have posted an opening for a police sniper on the aptly-named HeadHunter.ru.

Leningrad Oblast's military commissioner has a solution to those pesky exes: send them to the army.

This week, we mark the end of 2020 with transportation stats, social media monitoring, and preparations for wild celebrations.

A Russian military aircraft designed to withstand nuclear war has met its match: burglars.

This week, politicians are caught red-handed; surrogate motherhood and gambling are (apparently) the same; and Putin isn't as hip with the youth as you'd think.

A birthday party turned deadly when a man was run over by a tank.

This week, the Russian army gets new toys; a university administrator doesn't quit while he's ahead; and Lukashenko keeps doing his thing, much to our chagrin.