Culture & Customs

Are you a Moscow Maniac or a Petersburg Patrician? It's time to take a side!

A Yakut school's graduating class consisted of only one student, which means he receives all of our congratulations.

Grow parsley for the wrong reason and you could land up in jail.

In this week's Odder News, Russia jumps on the organic bandwagon, Russians get circus tickets and stickers for vaccinating, and quadruplets are more common than you would think.

The Sandfest returns to the shores of St. Petersburg with global travel themes.

How to counter the "shameful" designation of "foreign agent"? With some bling, of course.

Omsk Avangard clinches Russian hockey's Gagarin Cup with some famous NHL faces.

A court case in the city of Perm unveils a story combining three quintessentially Soviet things: bathhouses, religious oppression, and an (extremely) intrusive surveillance state.

In this week's Odder News, a city mayor uses TikTok and Grand Theft Auto to communicate with his constituents, the Teletubbies show up in Norilsk, and a Perm barn is sacrificed to TikTok.

“I also don’t know that they would be able to work in the President’s administration. I do not think there is a division in the administration that deals with sports nutrition.”

– Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov

Russian tea isn't always what you might picture it to be... neither is it always really tea. Let's have a taste of some of the unique varieties of herbal tea found in Russia. 

In this week's Odder News, Victory Day surprises, ideas to increase vaccination, and a mass wedding in the sky.