This week, we mark the end of 2020 with transportation stats, social media monitoring, and preparations for wild celebrations.

The Moscow Metro plans to allow passengers to pay with Face ID.

Cars and alcohol don't mix, especially when your job is driving a military IFV.

Somehow, a blind man in Orenburg has been sporting a drivers' license for the last two years.

Public transportation in Moscow is getting an electric facelift, but one trolleybus line will remain, in homage to this mode of transportation.

This week: cereal jingles go viral, animal crossings save critters, and paratroopers take a swim in a fountain in celebration. Sounds pretty run-of-the-mill.

Russia's iconic domestic car has been the highest-selling automobile in the last six months.

This week, drivers' licenses get a much-overdue update, utility bills make headlines, and we learn that pirates abound in Russia. 

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.

This week's Odder News features monuments for dead villages, ancient memes, and a mirror for Putin.

This week's Odder News reads like a bad movie, full of forgotten headstones, zombies, and a disagreement settled with firearms.

This week: Putin cracks down on smartphones, some things go online that probably shouldn't, and new coronavirus advice seeks to preserve the peace (and health).