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Yevgeny Zamyatin’s famous book is being made into a movie. Here's the trailer.

This week's Odder News features monuments for dead villages, ancient memes, and a mirror for Putin.

“It’s not clear how he found himself at school: maybe someone threw him out or he crawled away. As our specialist said, the python is full. Such an animal is able to swallow even a cat. And it’s a great happiness that no one was hurt.”

– Alena Shibanova, a representative from the Good Home Animal Shelter, on a two-meter python found near a school in Kineshma

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has found a contemporary way to display classic works of art.

Human testing of a coronavirus vaccine is set to begin in Russia, and you, too, can fulfill your dream of being a guinea pig.

As summer begins, a Russian doctor explains how to combat "weather pains."

This delightful animated short by Anton Dyakov is our video of the week that we had a hard time waiting to share...

A group of friends from Russia and the former CIS states banded together to ensure a Russian restaurant stayed safe during US protests.

This week's Odder News reads like a bad movie, full of forgotten headstones, zombies, and a disagreement settled with firearms.

In these difficult times, let’s celebrate life. Specifically, five Russians (from a diplomat to an conductor to an activist) who happen to share today, June 4, as their birthday.

If you think American high school graduations have fanfare, wait till you see what Russians in St. Petersburg do.

“It’s all bullsh*t… It’s all exaggerated. It’s an acute respiratory disease with minimal mortality.”

-Alexander Myasnikov, appointed in April as Russia’s head of coronavirus information