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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.

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.