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

Saturn, a Mississippi alligator, saw Hitler and survived the Battle of Berlin. A tribute to the Moscow Zoo's greatest reptile.

Maxim is a blogger and photographer who helps everyone to see the charm of St. Petersburg historic apartments.

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

This week we explore Soviet throwbacks, social media trends, and coronavirus fugitives.

The nuclear research city of Sarov has been closed to outsiders since the 1940s. What is it like to live in a city with no future of opening up?

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

This week we have a little bit of everything: new cars, freshly-paved streets, and, of course, plenty of coronavirus.

Given all that has been going on, we thought it would be a good time to check in with some of the people we have profiled in Piter's People and see how they are doing.

Few Russians know who Julia Child is. Yet Darya still chose to name her restaurant after the iconic American chef.

Moscow police have finally arrested a traffic-ticket fugitive.

A St. Petersburg municipal politician has resigned after the discovery of an underground casino in his apartment.