September 1 is not only the start of the school year in Russia, but also a time to celebrate knowledge and wisdom.

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

This week's we feature a smattering of things that are somewhere they shouldn't be, including drugs, tanks, mammoths, kids, and (of course) Lenin.

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

This week: soccer games return, cultural events go online, and an 11-year-old girl makes us all look like pansies.

If the All-Russian Teachers' Union gets their way, a fine could take the place of detention.

A family in Yekaterinburg raised 153 million rubles ($2.3 million) to save their five-month-old daughter's life.

Five Russian oblasts have schooled the rest in good socio-economic policy, according to recent awards from the Expert Institute of Social Research.

In this week's G-rated Odder News: Kid-friendly World War II history, kid-friendly educational TV, and kid-friendly swearing lessons.

“My personal opinion: any child loves running, jumping, drawing, singing, And maybe not everyone can do it ‘perfectly,’ but to give a student a ‘C’ (‘troika’) just because they lack a musical ear is, in my opinion, not right.”

– Education Minister Olga Vasilyeva

Russians send the Night’s Watch to New Jersey and bottles to Brazil; they welcome a Swedish girl to speak and immigrants to share their imya (name). 
 

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