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“Don't believe it, don't click it, don't pay!”

– Sergey Volodkhin, director of the Russian company “Antiphishing,” explaining how online scammers bait their hooks,

Subarctic summer Siberia is hosting snow and wildfires at the same time.

The highest mountain in Russia has a bit of a trashy problem. 

Not-Russia took home more Olympic medals than it thought it would, placing third in the overall medal count race.

A Russian woman is suing McDonald's for producing advertising so effective she gave up on Lent.

In this week's Odder News, the biggest pot of borscht you'll ever see, a new birthday gift idea, and piranhas hit Sakhalin.

Who needs headlights when you have flamethrowers instead? This Russian mechanic decided to find out. 

“There is not a single builder in Paradise.”

– Stanislav Lisichenko, Russian restaurateur, providing an anecdote for Russia’s “Builder’s Day," August 8.

Russia's “Promobot” is more efficient than the teacher with eyes in the back of her head.

Cats and bears are (arguably) Russia's two favorite national animals. What would happen if the two animals were to come head to head? Apparently, not much. 

Russia isn't known for being a warm-water country, but during the summer months there are more than enough accessible rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans within and around the country to have a little fun.

Trash-panda no more, this raccoon has developed a hankering for fine wine.