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.

As if trapped in a time warp, a remote village school in the Mari El Republic preserves a largely forgotten style of schooling, mostly cut off from the twenty-first century.

He was a talented artist but an even more gifted itinerate photographer. What he captured 120 years ago is remarkable.

In Russia, a bus ride is always more than a bus ride, especially when it stops over at Klava’s patty shop.

Life and folklore in the remote Russian Far North

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

Some off-the-cuff dacha recipes for you (summer seems like too relaxed a time for exacting recipes).

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

Even when you do a good deed, you need to pay attention, or you may chart a new road to humility.

Belarusian Alexei Usikov has invented a new vehicle – a horsemobile, with the mighty horsepower of one horse.

Nikita Khrushchev’s great granddaughter, Nina Khrushcheva, and an expat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Jeffrey Tayler, offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth.

The post-holiday doldrums must not exist in Russia, where we find stories of hope, change, and a mayor that cares.