Fish Fights, Freight Trains, and Feminist Propaganda

In this week's Odder News: mammoth hunting returns, a Russian TV show comes under fire, and anti-drunk-driving measures take a remarkable turn.

• Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade is beginning to work on developing "alcolocks" and promoting their use among domestic-made cars starting as soon as the end of this year. The locks analyze a driver's breath and, should it be too booze-laden, prevent the car's ignition. It's probably a good sign that we didn't know that such a thing existed.
• Want to channel your ancestral Neanderthal and go mammoth-hunting this summer? You can, thanks to global warming releasing some of Siberia's best-preserved prehistoric pachyderms. And you don't even have to worry about saber-toothed tigers!
• Following the hurt Russian feelings caused by the switching of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, the countries of Russia and Syria have agreed to work together to build a smaller replica of the landmark in western Syria. Hopefully it's a little more magnificent than another recent attempt at mock monuments.
• A juvenile part of our brains is mesmerized by this video of a two-freight-train wreck outside St. Petersburg, so we're letting you in on it, too.
• A woman in a small Siberian town has been convicted of assaulting a police officer with a package of smoked fish in a disagreement about the right to sell it at a train station. We guess her business was uno-fish-al.
• A government official from St. Petersburg has denounced a Russian streaming website for their free access to the TV show "Chiki". According to her, the serial, which focuses on sex workers, is LGBT and feminist "propaganda," which, frankly, piques our curiosity and only makes us want to check it out more.