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“You risk getting an upset stomach, but there is no scientific evidence for this fact.”

- An announcement from Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, on the incorrect way to eat melons

Be careful what QR-codes you scan in Russia, you may be opening yourself up to fraud.

Russia's iconic domestic car has been the highest-selling automobile in the last six months.

Yandex, Russia's Google almost-equivalent, is making moves to expand with products including "YaBank," "YaSafe," and "YaCash."

How the work of one of Soviet Russia's greatest poets found new life through modern music.

A herd of camels, released by an 83-year-old pensioner, is wreaking havoc in Astrakhan region.

A touching, short, CGI animated film looks at 20 years in the life of a Russian orphan.

Data from Rosstat indicates that the median Russian monthly salary is R35,000 (approximately $480).

This week, mammoths are ripe for the picking; fishy business practices turn violent; and a TV show is labelled a bad influence on Russian families.

“I have nothing to share.”

– Comedian Maksim Galkin in response to journalists asking him about rumors of divorce between him and his wife, the musical icon Alla Pugacheva.

A street in Kyiv is being renamed in honor of a journalist who helped expose Soviet Ukraine’s deathly famine.

An Armenian-Russian producer is the first Russian producer to be nominated for an Emmy, for his documentary Hate Among Us.