45 mice, 15 newts, eight gerbils and a handful of snails returned to Earth today after a month in space in a Russian capsule. The Bion-M completed a parachute-assisted landing about 750 miles southeast of Moscow, and researchers immediately set up a mobile lab near the capsule to begin tests on the animals.

You are sitting 350 meters above the Galichstry district in Russia. You are on the tallest abandoned structure in Russia, and yes, you are shitting yourself.

This is the BelAZ 75600, Russia's largest dump truck, getting loaded up with rocks at the Bachatsky coal mine in Siberia. Nothing unexpected happens in this video. I just love it because I am secretly five years old.

I always found it a bit confusing that May Day was on the same day as International Workers' Day, meaning that the images I had of women in diaphanous dresses cavorting around a flower-draped pole were always intermingled with images of huge Soviet trucks towing ICBMs through Red Square.

We've all seen videos where a guy tries to do a drift/burnout/donut and fails. Only those videos never end with the driver falling into a pit.

Russia, if you're ever in the market for a new national motto, I have a suggestion for you: The Country Where Everyone Is Crazy And No One Should Be Allowed To Drive.

According to English Russia, bikes aren't allowed on many Russian subways, but that doesn't stop people. It just creates impromptu man vs. the system comedy.

A hot water geyser erupted in Smolensk's main square yesterday, sending dirt, trash, and bricks showering over a parking lot. The Russian drivers, however, hardly seemed to care.

There's still plenty of melting snow over in Mother Russia, causing trouble for cars all over the place, particularly in Moscow. This Audi struggles to free itself from a puddle.

Lake Baikal is not only the deepest and largest volume fresh water lake in the world, but also happens to be frozen from January to late May. That creates a great opportunity for some high speed ice driving, which translates to 183 mph in a 540 horsepower stock Nissan GT-R.