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195 years ago today Russian literature was born when a certain Yevgeny showed up.

Where do Russians have it the best? Rostat sought to find out.

The weather has been all over the place in Russia, and future forecasts predict more of the same.

“Maslenitsa week is usually accompanied by all sorts of food excesses, including plentiful blini eating. And in this regard, any overeating is harmful to the body.”

– Member of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection Dr. Boris Mendelevich on the potential pitfalls of eating too many blini

Sakhalin Island deputies introduce legislation to revive a shrinking livestock trade: reindeer herding.

Five Russian oblasts have schooled the rest in good socio-economic policy, according to recent awards from the Expert Institute of Social Research.

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The threat of coronavirus is not funny, but advertisements for tongue-in-cheek “remedies” are catching on among entrepreneurial Russians.

Thirty-four years ago this week, the Mir Space Station was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Two young Russians fall in love in the midst of a Coronavirus quarantine.

This week's Odder News: Belarus, the "Switzerland of the East," quiet hours, and tank-fueled wedding proposals.

“We wanted to draw attention to the problem: a lack of medical masks in pharmacies, the lack of information on the coronavirus. We were not trying to scare our compatriots or laugh at a hot topic. We just set up a social experiment.”

– One of two men fined for their video pranking the coronavirus