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In this week's Odder News, Russian highway drivers stop for a duckling crossing, a woman fakes her own kidnapping and pays for it, and what does it signify if two black sphynx cats cross your path?

A usual weather phenomenon called "Milky Rain" occurred recently in the Moscow region, but it wasn't nearly as delicious as it sounds. 

“We are strengthening the protection of banknotes from the effects of harmful microorganisms.”

– On July 5, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank Mikhail Alekseev explained plans for the modernization of Russia’s bank notes

A trip for rugged vehicles of many types and stripes, Russia’s “Silk Way” Rally began on July 1 in Omsk.

Russophiles delight! The motherland calls, and she's saying that American ex-pats are welcome to enter through her borders once again.  

The legend of Russia's heroic defender passed into Stalinist myth with some help from one of the 20th century's most famous filmmakers.

While the U.S. Pentagon teases knowing the truth about UFOs, Volgograd continues to attract more of them... supposedly... than anywhere else.

When an injury takes an MMA fighter out of the cage, he decides to take his talents into the kitchen instead. 

In this week's Odder News, marked up sandwiches, magic suitcases, and Chadian soldiers as alarm clocks.

Russian authorities have found a new way to boost the country’s sluggish economic growth while also solving the shortage of construction workers: prison labor.

Russian air travel has changed radically over the past two decades. While there are still grave security concerns, there has been a boom in aircraft and airport construction, with positive impacts for travelers into and within the country.

Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski was born in Poland, and helped rule Russia, for a time at least.