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A man recounts a story of how he was stopped by the army to allow a military convoy to pass, but his dashcam was left on, and captured an unusual military vehicle.
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Omsk education ministry has banned Hallowe'en in the region's schools as they cite surveys which claim it is damaging to children and is "death cult propaganda".
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A young boy has survived despite being electrocuted when he touched a pantograph connecting a train to the live overhead rails. This video shows the event in full.
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This compilation of dash-cam videos shows the unfortunate results of trying to dodge Russia's notorious bad traffic by driving on the hard shoulder and undertaking.
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In the third such incident this week, the £250/300€ Olympic torch began flaming uncontrollably in the hands of Ded Moroz, Russia's equivalent to Santa Claus.
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Netizens become nostalgic after watching this video compilation of Russian clubbing in the early 90s although some ask if it was perhaps a little earlier than that.
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Netizens joke about the possibility the monkey exhibition is where politicians go during the summer recess after news that Moscow Zoo's monkey enclosure is closed.
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, following a hunger strike against the conditions of her detention, has been transferred to a different colony in another part of Russia.
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A young girl is engulfed in a fireball when she takes hold of the Olympic torch in Kostroma, central Russia. The girl is OK, but questions about the Olympics loom.
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A terrorist attack on a bus in Volgograd left some dead, and many more injured earlier on today. This dashcam footage captured the blast from just metres behind.
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According to Bulgarian press, Maria Sharapova is pregnant by her boyfriend since last January, Bulgarian tennis champion Grigor Dimitrov, Serena Williams's ex.
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A woman's unique dancing style goes viral after a netizen uploaded it to YouTube. Netizens alternate between laughing and defending the woman for her actions.
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The Jewish Autonomous Oblast's flag, a seven-coloured rainbow on a white background, has been cleared of being homosexual propaganda, but netizens are not happy.
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President Putin is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Lord Peter Truscott for his involvement in the Syrian crisis, but netizens question Truscott's motives.
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One of the runners in Tver in the Olympic relay has been spotted looking like Vladimir Putin. Netizens repeat conspiracy theories that Putin is played by a group.
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Russian netizens struggle to believe that this photo genuinely shows a Year 10 student's homework, saying some of them were able to do these exercises in Year 3
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Two Russians competing to have the biggest tab ended up spending £130,000, enough to buy a house, an Aston Martin, or, apparently, more than 84 bottles of champagne
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