Everyone is excited for the long-awaited Games this summer, especially the Russian Olympic Committee, who is taking the opportunity to reintroduce us to their two new(-ish) Olympic mascots.

The Tampa Bay Lightning just won the NHL championship, and there were definitely Russians involved.

A trip for rugged vehicles of many types and stripes, Russia’s “Silk Way” Rally began on July 1 in Omsk.

When an injury takes an MMA fighter out of the cage, he decides to take his talents into the kitchen instead. 

St. Petersburg hosts one-eleventh of the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament this summer.

In this week's Odder News, a noble Hermitage cat predicts the UEFA tournament in St. Petersburg, new rules for flying with pets, and Russia's three biggest problems.

In America, people go to country clubs to escape from the drudgery they bear. In Russia, bears escape from country clubs.

Citizens of Krasnoyarsk are figuring out how to make the best out of a pretty water-logged situation. 

Russia hosted the world's largest synchronized footrace at the end of May.

Omsk Avangard clinches Russian hockey's Gagarin Cup with some famous NHL faces.

In this week's Odder News, a city mayor uses TikTok and Grand Theft Auto to communicate with his constituents, the Teletubbies show up in Norilsk, and a Perm barn is sacrificed to TikTok.

“I also don’t know that they would be able to work in the President’s administration. I do not think there is a division in the administration that deals with sports nutrition.”

– Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov