Culture & Customs

A hospital in Kursk is under investigation after a woman awoke post-surgery in the morgue.

This week: Soviet-relic bunkers burst forth with new life; Soviet-relic vehicles get new life; and Soviet-relic apartments crack under the pressures of life.

The smallest ethnos in the Russian Federation is an Avar sub-culture in the Caucasus.

A recording of Viktor Tsoy’s last concert with his group Kino has recently been rediscovered.

This week: cereal jingles go viral, animal crossings save critters, and paratroopers take a swim in a fountain in celebration. Sounds pretty run-of-the-mill.

St. Petersburg saw over 2,000 attendees at its stand-up-paddleboard (SUP) festival this year, many in costume and with pets in tow.

“You risk getting an upset stomach, but there is no scientific evidence for this fact.”

- An announcement from Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, on the incorrect way to eat melons

How the work of one of Soviet Russia's greatest poets found new life through modern music.

A herd of camels, released by an 83-year-old pensioner, is wreaking havoc in Astrakhan region.

This week, mammoths are ripe for the picking; fishy business practices turn violent; and a TV show is labelled a bad influence on Russian families.

“I have nothing to share.”

– Comedian Maksim Galkin in response to journalists asking him about rumors of divorce between him and his wife, the musical icon Alla Pugacheva.

A street in Kyiv is being renamed in honor of a journalist who helped expose Soviet Ukraine’s deathly famine.