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This week's Odder News, we cover everything from mummies to hogs, from cussing to bows and arrows. Oh, and skyscraper jumping...

Desperate times, and the need to create a festive atmosphere, call for desperate measures. 

“Statistics are a stubborn thing, and even with my diagnosis you have a chance to get better! Just believe in it! I was just unlucky :)"

– A beloved and influential Russian oncologist, in his last Facebook post before he died of cancer.

For a few Muscovites, Christmas came early, in the form of free Metro rides.

Is a meteorite fragment from the 2013 Cheyabinsk incident attempting to phone home? Not clear. But Stranger Things are definitely afoot.

The Siberian village of Okunevo is a "place of power." For literally hundreds of years, people have visited here, convinced that the lake has healing power, among other things.

Artist Aleksandr Tsypkov and a handful of other artists feel everyone, not just church-goers, should be able to see religious art. So naturally they are tagging bridges and underpasses with "iconic" images.

Russian Life wishes you a happy new year, complete with movies and marriages.

Discussion in Russia about domestic violence has gotten more serious over the past few years, and a showdown seems to be on the horizon.

The first months of 1920 was a dark time in Russia. The Civil War was grinding to its grim conclusion and intellectuals were in the crosshairs.

Poor, unfortunate Vasily Vasilyevich Korvin-Krukovsky. He worked so hard to help his family flourish, and, at least in his eyes, it all went to waste.