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A touching, short, CGI animated film looks at 20 years in the life of a Russian orphan.

Data from Rosstat indicates that the median Russian monthly salary is R35,000 (approximately $480).

This week, mammoths are ripe for the picking; fishy business practices turn violent; and a TV show is labelled a bad influence on Russian families.

“I have nothing to share.”

– Comedian Maksim Galkin in response to journalists asking him about rumors of divorce between him and his wife, the musical icon Alla Pugacheva.

A street in Kyiv is being renamed in honor of a journalist who helped expose Soviet Ukraine’s deathly famine.

An Armenian-Russian producer is the first Russian producer to be nominated for an Emmy, for his documentary Hate Among Us.

Russia has fallen under suspicion for testing what some say is an anti-satellite weapon.

The President of Russia's neighboring Belarus says he had coronavirus, but even that didn't keep him down.

Two cats in Krasnodar are being praised after helping an injured dog cross the street.

This week, we're warned once again to be careful on the internet; priests use their powers for good; and criminals have never been so dang cute.

“Are all these really mercenaries? // In Moscow, their voices are heard already! // The column went more and more powerfully. // They do not ask or pray, // They want the will to reach // All the ears of the people. // And there is no task to borrow, // No, it’s not their roof that is sliding. // ‘We are not stupid, we are not stupid!’ // Ah, those who don't want to hear them.”

– Sergei Shnurov, leader of the band Leningrad, and a politician and producer, who used a poem on Instagram to announce his arrival in Khabarovsk to check out the protests occuring there in response to the arrest of governor Sergei Furgal

A batch of cherniki was found to contain high levels of dangerous radiation.