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Curious about vodka stats? Russia's Research Center for the Federal and Regional Alcohol Markets has you covered.

“Accordingly, the temperature will be seven to eight degrees higher than the climatic norm, which gives reason to say that the current winter will turn out to be the warmest over the last 140 years of instrumental observations in Moscow.”

- Chief Specialist of the Moscow Weather Bureau Tatyana Pozdnyakova

Russia is taking on violence against pets.

Russian priests in Sverdlovsk Oblast are upset that they could start seeing local license plates numbered 666, a number often associated with Satan.

From salty baths to salt caves, sanatoriums throughout Eurasia have, over the centuries, changed in form, but not in spirit. 

Online duty-free purchasing is taking over Russian airports. Rejoice, fans of designer cologne.

Two sisters lost contact as teenagers in 1942, during their evacuation from the Battle of Stalingrad. They never lost hope they would find each other.

Tuesday was 75th anniversary of the start of the Yalta Conference, the first step in rebuilding the post-War world.

Bear with us: this week's Odder News lacks a theme. Instead, we have tomato paste, emotion workshops, and Russian pandas.

You’ll have to pay full price for that burger.

“Alcohol is the most harmless component of beer. The remaining minor components that give the beer its properties - foam, color, taste - are extremely unhealthy compounds for human health.”

- Expert in narcology, Daniil Pokrovsky

Approximately 600 fishermen were stuck on an ice floe, despite being warned about the dangerous ice.