While city vehicles go for a stroll, death comes knocking — twice.

Russian women: give birth in Syrian prisons, drive metro trains, make news (and borsch), and welcome children home from the dead.

There are two kinds of fast learners: robots and schoolchildren. Meanwhile, an odd cosmonaut tradition comes under siege.

How do you win over the village beauty who has a thing for animals? Kolya is determined to find out.

Presidents eating ice cream, kids reporting toy theft to police… summer is almost over, thank Allah. 

A former lawyer saves 233 lives, and a guy finds hell in Yaroslavl. Also, your next delivery guy might deliver on horseback.

Suing Putin (not over the protests) and selling a babushka's jam.

This week, Russians are caught in the act by means of butter, watermelon, and a controversial color

This week’s “criminals”: politicians with dead souls, chocolate Robin Hoods, kid-conductors, and a woman who just wants to go home.

Tinder, fish soup, and wakeboarding — these make both entertaining pastimes and fantastic publicity stunts.

A funeral for a trolley, a near-funeral for a pianist, and scared birds: all this and more on this week’s TWERF.

It was Nikolayev’s birthday, which in ordinary years would always start bright and early... but this was no ordinary year...