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"Let's revive the Soviet school of education. It was the best in the world, everyone has always recognized this, and this is what our legislative proposals should be aimed at. After all, the Unified State Exam is just some kind of torture for young people."

–  Chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, reminiscing about how the Soviet system of education really made the grade.

A clever hunter made a move to pluck himself out of an unbearable fate nearly a month ago. This week, his friend explained how he managed to help.
 

Russian national energy company Rosneft has begun a project to create a database of genomes of Russians, which is definitely something a state-held corporation should be doing.

In which we learn about the strong-willed and brilliant Anna Dostoyevskaya, the wife of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Catherine the Great's injunction to get vaccinated has recently emerged from a private collection.

In this week's Odder News, good luck finding your bus, good luck getting your caviar order, and the cosmos is about to get boring.

In which a runaway pair of labradors prove that puppy love is real. 

"They are waiting for conversations from us, but not concrete actions.”

– Andrei Alekseenko, the new mayor of Krasnodar, seems to have confused the demands of his citizens.

A robotic turtle with spider-like abilities could be Russia’s next crowd control.

A man disturbed the quiet slumber of the dead while looking for a place to catch himself forty winks.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novels may be so psychologically complex for a reason you might not expect.

Despite how weird it looks, birchpunk is a fun and talented hip hop group asking important moral questions.