This week's Odder News features monuments for dead villages, ancient memes, and a mirror for Putin.

“It’s not clear how he found himself at school: maybe someone threw him out or he crawled away. As our specialist said, the python is full. Such an animal is able to swallow even a cat. And it’s a great happiness that no one was hurt.”

– Alena Shibanova, a representative from the Good Home Animal Shelter, on a two-meter python found near a school in Kineshma

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has found a contemporary way to display classic works of art.

Human testing of a coronavirus vaccine is set to begin in Russia, and you, too, can fulfill your dream of being a guinea pig.

As summer begins, a Russian doctor explains how to combat "weather pains."

“It’s all bullsh*t… It’s all exaggerated. It’s an acute respiratory disease with minimal mortality.”

-Alexander Myasnikov, appointed in April as Russia’s head of coronavirus information

This week arts and crafts flourish under quarantine; a heatwave hits an unlikely place, and coronavirus fashion hits a new high (or low?).

“On the day of his 80th birthday, Brodsky returned to Pestel Street—he is looking directly at his balcony in the house where he lived, those same one and a half rooms from where he left forever. But poets always return.”

– Creators of a large graffiti display depicting the poet Joseph Brodsky

Quarantine is hard on the mind, soul, and waistline.

This week: soccer games return, cultural events go online, and an 11-year-old girl makes us all look like pansies.

This week: Putin cracks down on smartphones, some things go online that probably shouldn't, and new coronavirus advice seeks to preserve the peace (and health).

Moscow's metro stations rise to the occasion of coronavirus.