In which, after not a small bureaucratic scuffle, a thirteen-year-old boy receives the gift from Putin that we all are really hoping for this Christmas: a brand new cow. 

A clever hunter made a move to pluck himself out of an unbearable fate nearly a month ago. This week, his friend explained how he managed to help.
 

Russian national energy company Rosneft has begun a project to create a database of genomes of Russians, which is definitely something a state-held corporation should be doing.

In which we learn about the strong-willed and brilliant Anna Dostoyevskaya, the wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Catherine the Great's injunction to get vaccinated has recently emerged from a private collection.

In which a runaway pair of labradors prove that puppy love is real. 

A robotic turtle with spider-like abilities could be Russia’s next crowd control.

A man disturbed the quiet slumber of the dead while looking for a place to catch himself forty winks.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novels may be so psychologically complex for a reason you might not expect.

Despite how weird it looks, birchpunk is a fun and talented hip hop group asking important moral questions.

You no longer need to travel to platform nine and three-quarters to get to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Russia now has her very own Hogwarts Express. 

Bad news for Russian language students: it looks like there might soon be some new spelling rules to memorize.