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11. Eating, Drinking, and Putin's New Look: Beachgoers bathe in potable sludge, Russians weigh in on replacements for sanctioned food, and the Kremlin revamps funerals. Plus, Putin goes fishing.; Tags: Putin, sanctions, Kremlin, Sochi, Russia; By Alice E.M. Underwood

12. Parties with Putin and the Ruins of Literature: President Putin visits human rights activists and curious kids, and a famous author falls to pieces. Plus Ivan the Terrible, a terrible auction purchase, and 10 fantastic bridges.; Tags: Moscow, Ivan the Terrible, Gogol, Sirius, Alexeyeva, Putin; By Alice E.M. Underwood

13. Toxic Waste, Putin Farms, & Crazy Seals: Tractors for Putin, toxic waste for Kaliningrad, and Reagan and Gorbachev for their modern-day counterparts. Also sweet wine, state secrets, and salt.; Tags: Spaso, Gorbachev, Reagan, Kaliningrad, Putin, Russia; By Alice E.M. Underwood

14. Pop music, Pythons, and Kindergarten on the Run: An anti-politics pop song, the drive against Hollywood, and education for deer herders. Plus, Putin, pianos, and pythons.; Tags: medinsky, putin, vox, politics, russia; By Alice E.M. Underwood

15. Cats, droids, and acrobatic rock & roll: A friendly robot graces the metro and a politically charged (and financed) dance studio gets footloose thanks to the youngest Putin. Also, happy World Cat Day!; Tags: russia, moscow, metro, putin, tikhonova, dance, cats, robot; By Alice E.M. Underwood

16. Bacon, comics, and fairy tales on ice: Adapting to life in Russia? Comic books. Craving cuteness? Piglets getting saved from a fire. Not Russian enough for you? Ice swimming. And for good measure, zombies.; Tags: russia, migrants, moscow, epiphany, putin, ice swimming; By Alice E.M. Underwood

17. Of mutts and men: With puppies and provinces on the line, Russia-Japan relations are a bit ruff. Plus bobsledding bedlam, diplomatic dirt, and more holiday dogs.; Tags: Russia, Japan, Kuril Islands, Putin, dogs, doping, WADA, Lavrov; By Alice E.M. Underwood

18. Cartoons, reality TV, and other art forms: Masha and the Bear tops the charts, Ramzan Kadyrov picks Chechnya's next top admin, and the arts in general are a big bowl of kasha.; Tags: Russia, Putin, Masha and the Bear, Kadyrov, arts, culture, spy; By Alice E.M. Underwood

19. A new direction for US-Russia relations?: The news in the U.S. is news for Russia, too. Here's how Russians are thinking about a Trump presidency – and it involves cats and burgers, as well as political ponderings.; Tags: Russia, Putin, Trump; By Alice E.M. Underwood

20. False history and forensic literature: Fighting falsified Russian history, righting incorrect Bulgakovian history, and piecing together just what – and how unified – is the Russian nation.; Tags: Russia, USSR, Putin, Bulgakov, nationalism, Unity Day; By Alice E.M. Underwood

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Notable events on this day in Russian history

1556: Ivan the Terrible decrees an explicit connection between landholding and military service. Anyone who possessed an estate had to provide a fully equipped, mounted man-at-arms for every 400 acres of arable land, with an additional horse for distant campaigns

1862: Petersburg State Conservatory named for Rimsky-Korsakov founded

1945: US ends Lend-Lease program to the Soviet Union.

1970: Soviet Luna 16 space probe landed on the moon and collected samples of lunar soil. It was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth (four days later). American manned craft had already landed on the moon and brought back samples.

1993: Azerbaijan's parliament voted to rejoin the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).