A death in the family not only proves the maxim that you can’t go home again, but also that home is probably not what you remember it to be.

This week we have grants for bride-stealing, anthropomorphic cakes, prisoners (and guards) walking on glass, and important advice for your next trip to Chelyabinsk.

Everyone's favorite yearly tundra jubilee has been postponed, perhaps until April.

This popular holiday tradition has believers plunging into ice-cold water… voluntarily!

This week's Odder News, we cover everything from mummies to hogs, from cussing to bows and arrows. Oh, and skyscraper jumping...

The Siberian village of Okunevo is a "place of power." For literally hundreds of years, people have visited here, convinced that the lake has healing power, among other things.

While city vehicles go for a stroll, death comes knocking — twice.

If it’s hard to gracefully say “no” in English, how much harder is it in Russian, where dissembling requires linguistic gifts that you might not have yet developed?

It was Nikolayev’s birthday, which in ordinary years would always start bright and early... but this was no ordinary year...

Russians have a sense of time that can often leave foreigners puzzling. So we decided to look at some colloquial expressions about time.

There’s lots of ways to have fun, whether it be a patriotic holiday or an “unpatriotic” game.

How true-to-life is a favorite Soviet movie, and what does it tell us about the Caucasus?