What’s more surprising, fake feminists or fish with bad teeth?

To selfie or not to selfie? That is the question, or at least one of the questions, addressed this week.

The weather in Russia this week was chilly with a hint of thaw, at least regarding science and political relations.

Climate change is destroying Russia and people still want to duel, but at least someone’s getting free pizza.

Falling from a Russian sky near you: airplanes, bags of money, and well-timed lightning bolts!

Who really killed the Romanovs? Read about the survivors of the royal household.

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov is on the 15th day of a hunger strike in a northern-Siberian prison. Anton Dolin explains how Sentsov's case is a sad miscarriage of justice, and what one can or cannot do about it.

What goes up must come down: tales of flags, currencies, and seaworthy laundromats.

Grudinin shaves the ‘stache, the other election results are in, and New Zealand struggles to offend Russia.

Putin has again been elected president. This post was originally written/aired in November 2007. Apparently, it still seems relevant.

All this year, in connection with the centennial of the 1917 revolutions, Calendar has offered readers a view of that year through the eyes of contemporaries. This issue we conclude the series with a look at what was going on in the pivotal months of November and December 1917.

A good mystery begins unexpectedly in the unlikeliest of places. And then it takes you where you never imagined. This one took the author halfway around the world and more than a hundred years back in time.