All I want for Christmas is to smell like Putin. (Unboxing a mysterious Putin-esque cologne.)

Does that cat fit in your carry on? Russia mulls flying fat cat regs.

Ivan the Terrible, notorious not only for being terrible, but also for killing his eldest son, may have finally found his heir.

The wealthiest woman on the African continent is, apparently, a Russian citizen.

A camel in southern Russia, out for a jog, caused severe rail delays.

On the dangers of booking one's travel through a debt-strapped agency.

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

In the latest of many "active animal" stories, we learn of a pigeon home invasion.

Everyone’s a kid at Christmastime, and, beginning this holiday season, pensioners in Kostroma Oblast can be kids year-round at Russia’s first “kindergarten” for pensioners.

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

Moscow authorities want you to stop throwing your trees in the trash: they have a plan to re-gift them to the city and the environment. 

Desperate times, and the need to create a festive atmosphere, call for desperate measures.