This week we have grants for bride-stealing, anthropomorphic cakes, prisoners (and guards) walking on glass, and important advice for your next trip to Chelyabinsk.

This week's Odder News features monuments for dead villages, ancient memes, and a mirror for Putin.

This week's Odder News reads like a bad movie, full of forgotten headstones, zombies, and a disagreement settled with firearms.

This week: Putin cracks down on smartphones, some things go online that probably shouldn't, and new coronavirus advice seeks to preserve the peace (and health).

Moscow's metro stations rise to the occasion of coronavirus.

In which cats prove to be dangerous creatures (as if we didn't know that).

In this week's Odder News, cheerleaders and lawmakers band together, croquet culture spreads to Russia, and youthful exuberance leads to a joyride.

Cruising the streets of Moscow is better in a stylish car you made yourself.

Russia's "Echelon of Victory" train-borne museum prepares to educate this spring.

In this week's Odder News, regions work on ethnic villages, presidents get songs written about them, and coronavirus countermeasures take a surprising twist.

Russian priests in Sverdlovsk Oblast are upset that they could start seeing local license plates numbered 666, a number often associated with Satan.

A camel in southern Russia, out for a jog, caused severe rail delays.