This week inventiveness takes on coronavirus, men need red meat, and Victory Day is the pandemic's latest casualty.

There will surely be some great April Fools' news items this week. These, however, are some that we wish were jokes.

Russia’s latest power couple, from Kaliningrad, is headed to the semifinals of the Leaders of Russia contest.

A study finds that the majority of Russians don't understand AI, just like the rest of us.

Russian banks to start testing biometric ATMs. This is probably a good idea.

The Russian Postal Service made more than 170 millionaires in 2019.

Looks like Black Friday isn’t the only dangerous shopping day: a Kazan stampede over... bananas.

You won't believe how much a woman in Chelyabinsk is asking for her 1000R bill.

The first months of 1920 was a dark time in Russia. The Civil War was grinding to its grim conclusion and intellectuals were in the crosshairs.

After being made redundant as a lighthouse keeper on a remote White Sea island, Lyudmila has taken it upon herself to defend her dying village from government indifference.

Russia is a little out of touch with reality this week: gates lead to nowhere, cows get VR, and bankers think the economy is like Harry Potter.