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A statue to the founder of the Soviet secret police has been erected in Khabarovsk.

A Khabarovsk gym teacher's charity provides kids with sports gear. 

The world's youngest female pilot to circumnavigate the globe recently stopped in Russia's Far East.

In this week's Odder News, Etsy is a threat, a reindeer tries to race a Russian train, and "The Nutcracker" is much harder to see in Russia than in the U.S.

This week, boats take to land; dogs get the recognition they deserve; and human bones are found in an unlikely place.

How one sparsely-populated region in Russia's Far East became a hotbed of protests in 2020.

What unites Khabarovsk and Minsk?

“Are all these really mercenaries? // In Moscow, their voices are heard already! // The column went more and more powerfully. // They do not ask or pray, // They want the will to reach // All the ears of the people. // And there is no task to borrow, // No, it’s not their roof that is sliding. // ‘We are not stupid, we are not stupid!’ // Ah, those who don't want to hear them.”

– Sergei Shnurov, leader of the band Leningrad, and a politician and producer, who used a poem on Instagram to announce his arrival in Khabarovsk to check out the protests occuring there in response to the arrest of governor Sergei Furgal