He raises three children, teaches Chinese, and blogs – all in record-breaking low temperatures.

This bad boy can be loaded with 25 slugs and is the weapon of choice for counterterrorist units around the world.

Two people insult each other online over how Soviet food crises should be remembered; a Novgorod bakery infuriates visitors with a Christmas tree made of white loaves; an old woman begs in the street only to buy bread, instead of a bag of rice containing 10 times the nutritional value. There is a silly reason behind this - and it needs to go.

On October 8, 1950, World War III could have broken out: The USAF attacked and bombed a Soviet airfield in the Russian Far East.