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“This is war. The enemy is invisible, but some lines of the front are clear. Today's difficulties, of course, are far from the horrors known to our history, and that includes the Blockade. That was much worse than today, and scarier.... The noble experience and mysticism of the besieged Hermitage remains with us always and serves as an example.”

- General Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, in a Facebook post on how the Hermitage is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic

If Russia has its way, NATO training would be postponed. Not because of coronavirus, but to preserve the memory of the dead of World War II.

Since many people are stuck at home, cultural activities have to adapt.

Few Russians know who Julia Child is. Yet Darya still chose to name her restaurant after the iconic American chef.

"Russia's Indiana Jones" has been hard at work.

Masha and the Bear will return for a new season!

Russia’s Ministry of Health discussed ways vodka can affect the coronavirus (spoiler alert: not much).

In this week's Odder News, the Moscow Zoo tries a new marketing tactic; a consumer protection agency gives its condom recommendations; and high winds call for desperate measures.

Translation is an art, not a science. And translating Chekhov is a particularly challenging art.

“Should I stock up on buckwheat?”

– Headline of an interview with Mikhail Delyagin, Director of the Institute for Globalization

An Archangelsk police chief is in hot water for using his subordinates to build a banya.

A Russian woman makes 2 million euros through illicit means.