Woman Prevents Daughter From Leaving the House For 26 Years
Russian media recently reported the shocking case of a 42-year-old woman who had not set foot outside her family home for 26 years, despite being in perfect health, because he mother didn’t allow it. Until this month, 42-year-old Nadezhda Bushueva hadn’t left her mother’s house in the village of Arefinsky, in western Russia, since she […]
Drone Photographer Captures ‘Lenin’-Shaped Forest in Siberia
Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the founder and first leader of the Soviet Union, lives on in the hearts and minds of the Russian people, but also in one little-known geoglyph in the country’s Siberia region – pine tree forest that spells “Lenin” in Cyrillic letters. Russian photographer Slava Stepanov was planning a business trip to the […]
Covid-19-Denying Priest Seizes Control of Russian Monastery with the Help of Armed Militia
Father Sergei Romanov, a controversial, ultra-conservative Russian priest, has taken control of the Sredneuralsk convent outside the city of Yekaterinburg and challenged authorities to force him out. Romanov, a former policeman who reportedly spent 13 years in a prison colony for murder before repenting and dedicating his life to religion, has been very vocal about […]
Influencer Sparks Controversy by Announcing Upcoming Marriage to Stepson She Helped Raise
A 35-year-old Russian influencer got a lot of backlash after announcing her upcoming marriage to the 20-year-old stepson she helped raise for 10 years. Marina Balmasheva, who rose to fame in Russia for documenting her weight-loss adventure online, is getting a lot of attention these days, because of her controversial new romantic relationship. Shortly after […]
Russian Family Tries to Escape Coronavirus Pandemic by Going to Live in the Woods
A family of five from Russia’s Sverdlovsk region took social distancing recommendations to the extreme by self-isolating in a forest several kilometers away from the nearest human settlement. On April 6th, Sverdlovsk police received a phone call from a woman in the village of Krasnogvardeisky who claimed that her brother had taken his wife and […]
Russian Jeweler Claims Coronavirus-Shaped Pendant As Talisman Against Real Coronavirus
Dr.Vorobev, a “medical jewelry” company based in Kostroma, Russia, has been getting a lot of attention for the sterling silver coronavirus-shaped pendants it has been selling since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sold online for 1,000 rubles ($13), the coronavirus pendant created by Dr. Vorobev has become a very controversial piece of jewelry on […]
Russian Granny Decorates Her House With Plastic Bottle Cap Mosaics
Nina Krinitsina, a pensioner from the Russian village of Makarye, around 850 kilometers east of Moscow, has been decorating her modest house with colorful bottle cap mosaics for the last seven years. The amateur artist, who currently has over thirty plastic mosaics nailed to the walls of her house – some numbering over 1,000 bottle […]
Russian Hunters Shoot Giant Wolf That Terrorized Remote Village
Photos of hunters struggling to lift up a giant wolf they had shot so they can pose with it have been doing the rounds on social media this week. The incredibly large animal was reportedly shot near the village of Aleksandrovka, in Blagoveshchensk district, the autonomous Republic of Bashkortostan, where packs of wolves had recently […]
Female Boxer Hid Her Gender in Order to Compete Against Men
Tatyana Dvazhdova, a 22-year-old female boxer from Russia doesn’t consider herself weaker than a man, and to prove this point she spent years hiding her gender and fighting male boxers under the fake name “Vladimir”. During a conference called “International Women’s Day – Feminism, Socialism, Sexism”, Tatyana Dvazhdova revealed that a few years ago she […]
Birthday Party Ends in Tragedy After Dry Ice Is Dumped in Swimming Pool to Make the Water Cooler
A Russian influencer recently took to social media to share details of a freak accident that claimed the lives of her husband and several friends during a pool party for her 29th birthday. The victims reportedly suffocated after dry ice was unloaded into the pool. Ekaterina Didenko, an Instagram star with over 1 million followers, […]
Russian Hachiko Waits for His Master to Get Off Work Every Day
People passing by the Mega shopping center in the Russian city of Kaliningrad every day have gotten used to the blue sweater-wearing husky calmly waiting for something or someone on the cold pavement. He’s been dubbed the Russian Hachiko and the comparison actually makes some sense. The clean blue sweater that the Russian Hachiko wears […]
Russian Police Officers Busted for Faking Drug Bust
A couple of police officers in Russia were convicted for busting a drug den that they had created themselves in order to boost their performance rating. Senior detective Ivan Mantrov and Yury Titov, the head of a police station in the Russian city of Kostroma, allegedly convinced three locals to produce the illegal synthetic drug […]
13-Year-Old Girl Claims Her 10-Year-Old Boyfriend Got Her Pregnant
In a controversial case that has been the talk of a whole country these last few days, a 13-year-old girl went on TV to tell the world that she is pregnant with her 10-year-old boyfriend. The two children, Darya and Ivan, recently appeared on Russian television show “On Air Live” to tell their story, get […]
Cat Goes Crazy, Keeps Owner Captive in the Kitchen for Two Whole Days
A Russian woman was allegedly unable to leave her kitchen for two days after her pet cat started behaving aggressively and tried to attack her whenever she tried to exit the room. This is the kind of news story that sounds so crazy, it has to be fake! At least that’s what I thought when […]
Russian Man Tries to Sell Childhood Painting for $2.3 Million
A Moscow man made national news headlines this week for putting a drawing he made when he was only six-years-old on sale online for no less than 140 million rubles ($2.3 million). 41-year-old journalist Vladimir Mkrtchyan placed the ad for his old childhood drawing on Russian classifieds site Avito on Monday, and it quickly went […]