A touching, short, CGI animated film looks at 20 years in the life of a Russian orphan.

This week, mammoths are ripe for the picking; fishy business practices turn violent; and a TV show is labelled a bad influence on Russian families.

A street in Kyiv is being renamed in honor of a journalist who helped expose Soviet Ukraine’s deathly famine.

An Armenian-Russian producer is the first Russian producer to be nominated for an Emmy, for his documentary Hate Among Us.

“This dish is eaten in almost every home. I don’t understand Russian people’s tastes at all.”

- Chinese blogger on herring under a fur coat, one of six items he listed as unusual Russian dishes

The reboot of a classic Russian cartoon features some modern updates.

In our video of the week, something from the realm of scifi: A Russian drone operator encounters a UFO, then must decide what is real and not.

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s famous book is being made into a movie. Here's the trailer.

As summer begins, a Russian doctor explains how to combat "weather pains."

This delightful animated short by Anton Dyakov is our video of the week that we had a hard time waiting to share...

This wonderful short animated film about a crocodile is our video of the week.

“I think that, first of all, viewers will want to watch something easy. Comedy, melodramas about love, and, of course, blockbusters, but they won’t start to be released right away, because the pandemic should not only end for us, but all over the world.”

– Kirill Razlogov, president of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics of the Russian Federation