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The wealthiest woman on the African continent is, apparently, a Russian citizen.

170 years ago this week, January 15, 1850, the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.

This week's Odder News features three survival stories: survival in the Russian wilderness, on the internet, and in a world filled with cell phones.

A camel in southern Russia, out for a jog, caused severe rail delays.

“My personal opinion: any child loves running, jumping, drawing, singing, And maybe not everyone can do it ‘perfectly,’ but to give a student a ‘C’ (‘troika’) just because they lack a musical ear is, in my opinion, not right.”

– Education Minister Olga Vasilyeva

On the dangers of booking one's travel through a debt-strapped agency.

Looks like Black Friday isn’t the only dangerous shopping day: a Kazan stampede over... bananas.

In the latest of many "active animal" stories, we learn of a pigeon home invasion.

Everyone’s a kid at Christmastime, and, beginning this holiday season, pensioners in Kostroma Oblast can be kids year-round at Russia’s first “kindergarten” for pensioners.

245 years ago this week, on January 10, 1775, the rebel Yemelyan Pugachev was executed in Moscow.

You won't believe how much a woman in Chelyabinsk is asking for her 1000R bill.

Moscow authorities want you to stop throwing your trees in the trash: they have a plan to re-gift them to the city and the environment.