This week, stealing a ridiculous amount of butter leads to punishment; Chechen nepotism knows no bounds; and Russians hope for an end of the pandemic (don't we all?).

A determined artist, photographer, and activist takes on the restoration of some wooden homes in a village just outside of Samara. In the process, she learns much about angle grinders, her fellow Russians, and, of course, herself.

This week, your mother turns out to be right all along; Aeroflot adapts to COVID; and the European Commission says you can get good, free movies from Russian social media.

The Moscow Metro plans to allow passengers to pay with Face ID.

This week, Lada outdoes itself; emergency services fall short; and cows (and men) finally get the appreciation they're due.

A group of people in Sakha died from drinking hand sanitizer.

“A man caught the pillow. As it later turned out, it was the driver of the Tomskoe Pivo [Beer] enterprise, and he tried to hastily hide it in his car… The driver was detained.”

– A source in Tomsk region’s law enforcement on the latest developments in the arrest of the town’s mayor

The position of mayor in the Far East town of Magadan is apparently so undesirable that no one wants the job.

This week, boats take to land; dogs get the recognition they deserve; and human bones are found in an unlikely place.

How one sparsely-populated region in Russia's Far East became a hotbed of protests in 2020.

Recent research by HeadHunter has shown that a significant number of Russians want to move to a different region in the country.

News from around Russia, on everything from bicycles to Bunin, from mystery graves to trolleybuses.