This week: soccer games return, cultural events go online, and an 11-year-old girl makes us all look like pansies.

A new report finds that, for the first time, Russians are drinking more coffee than tea.

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

A Russian man has been arrested for selling alcohol out of his apartment window.

А фestive Napoleon Cake that is plenty complex to offer lots of stress baking relief.

This week: Russian telecomms habits shift, a St. Petersburg entrepreneur gets crafty, and being stuck at home means more alcohol intake.

This week inventiveness takes on coronavirus, men need red meat, and Victory Day is the pandemic's latest casualty.

What to drink in quarantine? Fortunately, a Russian expert has the answers.

This week we explore the upsides and downsides of self-isolation, strange new laws, and virus testing.

"Because of the coronavirus, I voiced the idea of considering the possibility of not conducting the Unified State Exam this year…”

- Oleg Smolin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science

Nothing is sacred when it comes to fighting coronavirus. Not even vodka.

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.