A village in Bashkortostan has opened a new gazebo as a gathering place for the community, and photos certainly make it look welcoming.

Life in a remote Siberian village can teach you a lot about adaptability, nature, food, and, most importantly, folklore. 

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.  

In this week's Odder News, enormous pumpkins, LARPing in honor of Alexander Nevsky, and horses in cars.

While that face might look sweet and innocent, recent allegations against Pushok the cat claim otherwise. 

You’ve not been fishing until you have explored the Volga River delta. And what better guide to take us there than the intrepid Andrei Borodulin?

There’s no doing without hay in the village. The cows eat it, and the sheep, and the hens need loads of it for their nests. And it comes in handy for people too, when they stuff their mattresses with it and lie on them forevermore, because the scent is just marvelous.

In which we visit a rather unique store in the Karelian village of Vedlozero. Which of course is far more than a store.

In this week's Odder News, elite cat care, the cutest reunion ever, and IKEA furniture is really from Russia.

Our old gals in the village cast a wary eye on all food from the store, because who knows what they’ve got in there?

A policeman had a bright idea for how to use his money to help his native village. 

Ivan Kupala is a traditional Slavic celebration of the summer solstice, with many pagan and deeply symbolic rituals. How are these ancient customs celebrated and recreated today in modern Russia?