December 01, 2019

Most Popular Stories of 2020


Most Popular Stories of 2020
Umora topped the charts as this year's favorite story on Russian Life.

Everyone is pretty clear that 2020 was an "off" year. But these six stories were definitely "on." Russian Life's website gets on the order of 10-20,000 visitors per month and about had about 280,000 page views in 2020. These are the stories that had the most reads from our thousands of readers...

Of course, these are just the top-read stories that were published in 2020.

Several stories published in previous years continue to get lots and lots of reads, the most popular being:

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