This delightful animated short by Anton Dyakov is our video of the week that we had a hard time waiting to share...

A Russian city's redesigned seal sports an anatomical typo.

No matter what Russia does, it can’t seem to dam up the flood of Anglicisms.

The Belarusian President followed his own coronavirus advice, Pomeranian in tow.

Putin's comparison of coronavirus to medieval nomadic invaders has tickled the internet.

Would Putin really release lions into Russia’s streets?

Russia's president discovers ancient pottery, goes spearfishing, and visits a coronavirus hospital.

After President Vladimir Putin admitted he wouldn't mind resetting his constitutional term limit, a new meme was born.

In this week's Odder News: Putin's smartphone habits, Russian homophones make a headache for the police, and a coronavirus serenade.

“I noticed that there are places here, shall we say, for contemplation.” said a Duma deputy, referring to… the bathroom. He continued: “And when important issues are being discussed, they should broadcast it there.”

The threat of coronavirus is not funny, but advertisements for tongue-in-cheek “remedies” are catching on among entrepreneurial Russians.

“We wanted to draw attention to the problem: a lack of medical masks in pharmacies, the lack of information on the coronavirus. We were not trying to scare our compatriots or laugh at a hot topic. We just set up a social experiment.”

– One of two men fined for their video pranking the coronavirus