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“For now I’m going skiing for a couple days, I’ll return and will work."

– Dmitri Medvedev, on his relaxation plans now that he’s no longer prime minister.

What would you rather visit: a cathedral or a distillery?

The Russian Postal Service made more than 170 millionaires in 2019.

All I want for Christmas is to smell like Putin. (Unboxing a mysterious Putin-esque cologne.)

Does that cat fit in your carry on? Russia mulls flying fat cat regs.

Ivan the Terrible, notorious not only for being terrible, but also for killing his eldest son, may have finally found his heir.

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.