A Russian knitting enthusiast has started knitting these eery ‘plague doctor’ masks in the light of the global shortage of face masks in the coronavirus pandemic. Julia Pupkina, 37, is a resident of the city of Chelyabinsk in the south-eastern Russian oblast of the same name and has decided to…
The first COVID-19 diagnosis in northern Russia has been confirmed as an Irishman who had arrived in the country to take part in a chess contest. The Irish patient, name and age not disclosed, was reportedly hospitalised in the city of Murmansk in the north-western Russian region of Murmansk Oblast,…
Newsflash/@volochkova_art The Russian ballerina famously sacked from the Bolshoi Ballet company for being too "fat" has caused outrage by using dry ice at her party weeks after three people died in a related incident in Moscow. Three people died at the end of February after 25 kilogrammes of dry ice…
Newsflash/@bliadskayatvar This is the moment a brawl breaks out in a KFC restaurant with a man on his own being punched and kicked down the stairs by a gang of youths. The incident took place inside the fast-food restaurant in the city of Novosibirsk in the southern Russian Oblast region…
Newsflash/@insta_prikoly This is the moment an online prankster pretends to cough blood on the tube in front of stunned commuters amid the COVID-19 outbreak, leading to his arrest. The 23-year-old prankster, whose name has not been disclosed but goes by the moniker ‘Insta Prikoly’ on Instagram where he boasts 500,000…