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.

For a few Muscovites, Christmas came early, in the form of free Metro rides.

Eight tips to make your travels throughout the former Soviet Union easy, fun, and low-budget!

Readers send us their stories of interesting train journeys and interactions.

There may be no better way to understand Russia than spending a few days chugging across the country by train. Here are our tips for how to make the most of it.

Russians may have found a new favorite form of wheels.

One of Russia's wealthiest women, Natalia Filyova, together with her husband built the country's second largest airline from the ground up. She died in an air crash over the weekend.