This 40-year-old woman paints walls, pours concrete and demolishes barns every day of the week. But in her free time, she takes part in fashion shows, once even in Paris. Variety sure is the spice of life.

The tour from the Czech Republic to Moscow involves receiving the new COVID-19 vaccine and is projected to cost 100,000 rubles (approx. $1,300). However, the Russian Ministry of Health believes the organizers to be fraudsters

Real-life maniacs were the inspiration behind the villains in the Russian TV show The Method, available now on Netflix. Some of them were far worse in reality. Not a comforting thought...

High society circles in St. Petersburg in the late 19th century were fascinated with seances and efforts to contact the dead. There was one problem, however. This macabre movement in fact had started as a prank by two young charlatans in the U.S. The fraudulent nature of this pseudo-science, however, didn’t stop educated and powerful Russians from indulging in what is known as ‘Spiritualism’.

These Russian soldiers were given to the Prussian king as ‘human presents.’ Most of them never returned home.