2021 is drawing to a close, which means that we have fascinating data on popular streaming trends in Russian-language music. 

One brave Russian journalist has done great service for the world’s population of domestic cats by taste-testing their vittles.

A Russian tree retailer lends some tips on how to land the perfect spruce you've been pining for. 

Belugas captured off Russia's Pacific coast since 2018 swam off into the sunset just like the hero of  the 1993 film Osvobodite Villi (Free Willy).

In an unusual turn of events, students in Chelyabinsk protest for more snow in the upcoming year.

A Krasnodar man, sentenced to serve time for theft, marked his release by doing what he does best.

The stories behind three iconic pieces of Russian art.

Winter is here, and ice swimmers are diving in across Russia.

Good news for anyone with a solid right hook! The Russian Ministry of Sports has deemed fist fighting as an official sport. 

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.