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In this week's Odder News: Putin's smartphone habits, Russian homophones make a headache for the police, and a coronavirus serenade.

Russian history is interesting. Not always beautiful, not always glorious, but almost always... interesting.

“Maybe we should change our perspective on how to communicate with patients? What technologies and working methods should we use?”

– Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko

Guard duty sends an old villager back to school, and down a broad and dusty lane full of memories.

A family in Yekaterinburg raised 153 million rubles ($2.3 million) to save their five-month-old daughter's life.

On the occasion of the great writer’s 160th birthday, we offer up one of his lesser-known classics, newly translated.

A group of intrepid preservationists toil quietly in Russia’s northern realms to preserve old wooden churches and izbas that are just a snowstorm away from perishing.

Ah, spring, when nature wakes from its winter slumber, and the farmers markets come alive with fresh greens like spinach, sorrel, and green onions.

If a vessel is unlucky enough to be berthed as a river ferry in Yakutsk, it will spend most of its life frozen into the surface of the Lena River.

Here’s the thing about history: you can’t see everything that is going on when you are living it, and then, when you try to dredge up what really happened, all you’ve got is your frail memories.

As if trapped in a time warp, a remote village school in the Mari El Republic preserves a largely forgotten style of schooling, mostly cut off from the twenty-first century.

If you believe the papers, Russia is in the grips of протестное настроение, which literally means a mood for protest, but which might be better translated as “loaded for bear.”