It mows and fertilizes. What could possibly go wrong?

In this week's Odder News: post-Soviet leaders propose innovative treatments for coronavirus, phone chargers go bad, and Russian buyers have an opening in the European real estate market.

Sakhalin Island deputies introduce legislation to revive a shrinking livestock trade: reindeer herding.

Russia is a little out of touch with reality this week: gates lead to nowhere, cows get VR, and bankers think the economy is like Harry Potter.

Russian scientists have restored the steppe of Kulikovo – just as it was when the country's seminal battle was fought in 1380.

Vladimir left the big city to set up a farm in rural Lipetsk Oblast. And he doesn’t regret it one bit.

The Caucasus had a fast-growing plant that the Soviets wanted to plant up north to use for animal feed. What could possibly go wrong?

An uptick in fox domestications leads us to consider a landmark experiment in Novosibirsk that upended assumptions about evolution.

In the summer of 1922, Ruth Epperson Kennell, a children’s librarian, left New York City for the far reaches of Siberia. She travelled with her husband Frank and 132 other ‘pioneers' who were eager to establishing industrial and agricultural communes to aid the ‘new Russia’.

A look back at the proclamation of Collectivization, in November 1929, leading essentially to the reinstatement of serfdom in Russia.

American bees are dying from mysterious causes, putting our agriculture at risk for lack of pollinators. Russian bees might be part of a solution.