The wealthiest woman in on the entire African continent is, apparently, a Russian citizen.

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

On the dangers of booking one's travel through a debt-strapped agency.

Looks like Black Friday isn’t the only dangerous shopping day: a Kazan stampede over... bananas.

In the latest of many "active animal" stories, we learn of a pigeon home invasion.

Everyone’s a kid at Christmastime, and, beginning this holiday season, pensioners in Kostroma Oblast can be kids year-round at Russia’s first “kindergarten” for pensioners.

You won't believe how much a woman in Chelyabinsk is asking for her 1000R bill.

Moscow authorities want you to stop throwing your trees in the trash: they have a plan to re-gift them to the city and the environment. 

Desperate times, and the need to create a festive atmosphere, call for desperate measures. 

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

Is a meteorite fragment from the 2013 Cheyabinsk incident attempting to phone home? Not clear. But Stranger Things are definitely afoot.

The Siberian village of Okunevo is a "place of power." For literally hundreds of years, people have visited here, convinced that the lake has healing power, among other things.