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.

This week we explore Soviet throwbacks, social media trends, and coronavirus fugitives.

“I don’t know what to do here. What am I supposed to do, sing, dance? I don’t understand what people do on TikTok. ”

– Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in his first post to TikTok, where he gained 130,000 followers in less than a week

We didn’t realize how connected we were until we had to disconnect.

Looking back at the early Soviet years when the young state launched anti-handshake campaigns.

This week: Russian telecomms habits shift, a St. Petersburg entrepreneur gets crafty, and being stuck at home means more alcohol intake.

The Belarusian President followed his own coronavirus advice, Pomeranian in tow.

This week inventiveness takes on coronavirus, men need red meat, and Victory Day is the pandemic's latest casualty.

The world's novel coronavirus emergency response is, it turns out, not so novel.

In 1887, Chekhov the doctor encountered typhus, leading Chekhov the writer to pen this powerful story.

What to drink in quarantine? Fortunately, a Russian expert has the answers.