"We did not have a fox in the monastery, definitely not ours, but it’s probably someone’s pet. They write that someone [at the monastery] was scared, but the fox was the most scared of all – a hundred people chased after her with their phones;  she is the main victim.”

– A resident of the Srtensky Monastery in Moscow denied that a young fox accused of terrorizing parishioners had come from the premises.

"The world is absolutely clear to me :) CHEERS.”

– Elena, wine-bearing marathon runner in September’s Galaxy Vladivostok Marathon.

You can find lots of unique and unexpected things when you take a trip into the woods in search of edible mushrooms, but a camel in Nizhny Novgorod seems to be the most outlandish find yet.  

"The App Store portal: who regulates it? Artificial intelligence, people from Mars?”

– Andrei Klimov, seeking to understand what’s going on behind the scenes with Apple’s App Store on September 17.

As policy dictates, election staff must now dispose of unused ballots in Russia's State Duma elections – and you’ll find that some have been cutting corners. Chainsaw, anyone?

Roskomnadzor seems to have a funny bone to pick with the Sverdlovsk government publication Oblastnaya Gazeta, blocking their website in delayed reaction to a questionable text.

It seems that vampires aren't the only creatures who choose to sleep in coffins; drunk Russians do, too.

“Snrrf.” *crunching sound* *laughter* “Pant, pant…”

– A fox as it thieves a camera from tourists in Kamchatka on September 8.

How does Baba Yaga celebrate her special day? Head to Yekaterinberg to find out.

A young Russian blogger and his accomplice published a video of vehicular hooliganism on September 1.

Covid’s got a sun sign, and Russian television personality and astrologer Vasilisa Volodina is out to break the virus some bad news.

A new village police station, unveiled with much pomp, occupies what appears to be a repurposed corrugated metal shed.