Muscovites are no longer in the dark about the amount of sunlight they got in December: just eight hours.

Moscow authorities want you to stop throwing your trees in the trash: they have a plan to re-gift them to the city and the environment. 

Desperate times, and the need to create a festive atmosphere, call for desperate measures. 

A collection of news items, quotes, and tidbits of interest from around the Russia space.

A cold flag, a resolved cold case, and the not-cold-at-all hearts of Russian children

This week, eagles rack up data bills while Putin pontificates about AI and a restaurant operator starts Meatless Mondays.

Defense against  walruses, shamans and climate change

Russian scientists have restored the steppe of Kulikovo – just as it was when the country's seminal battle was fought in 1380.

In the public mind, Russian forests have always been an unlimited resource. Not any longer.

On the language of fall and a changing climate.

In this issue's language learning page, we consider Russian songs about trees.

Lakes vanish, free food appears, and a priest speaks to the dead.