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The thirteen tales in this volume – all written by Russian émigrés, writers who fled their native country in the early twentieth century – contain a fair dose of magic and mysticism, of terror and the supernatural. There are Petersburg revenants, grief-stricken avengers, Lithuanian vampires, flying skeletons, murders and duels, and even a ghostly Edgar Allen Poe.

After a year of education through computer screens and the internet, one Russian school looks to bring the screens back into the physical classroom with a robotic teacher. 

Russian kids are caught up in a toy craze, and the government is worried about how it might be influencing them.

Are you a Moscow Maniac or a Petersburg Patrician? It's time to take a side!

A Yakut school's graduating class consisted of only one student, which means he receives all of our congratulations.

Grow parsley for the wrong reason and you could land up in jail.

In this week's Odder News, Russia jumps on the organic bandwagon, Russians get circus tickets and stickers for vaccinating, and quadruplets are more common than you would think.

The Moscow City Duma is proposing safety regulations that will help prevent Muscovites from scootering into peril. 

“I think we're close to establishing Tesla's presence in Russia, and that would be great. And more broadly, also in Kazakhstan and neighboring regions.”

– On May 21, entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that the Tesla line would soon make it to markets in Russia, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries.

The Sandfest returns to the shores of St. Petersburg with global travel themes.

How to counter the "shameful" designation of "foreign agent"? With some bling, of course.

A century-old wrecked icebreaker was just found north of Russia.