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A Russian Mi-8 helicopter of the "Rossiya" special flight squad лётный отряд «Россия», which transports members of the government and armed forces, crashes at the Vnukovo Airport in Moscow. According to some reports there are injuries, with TASS reporting that pilot error is the main cause of the helicopter crash. 2023-01-27
Russia withdraws the press credentials of all Deutsche Welle staff and closes the German media organization's studio in Moscow in response to German regulators blocking the Russian television channel RT Deutsch. 2022-02-3
Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to a ceasefire in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh effective 03:00 a.m. local time, following Russian-brokered peace talks in Moscow. However, fighting continues and both sides accuse each other of violating the agreement. 2020-10-9
Russia reports its first death from COVID-19. Moscow city authorities say the victim was a 79-year-old woman with underlying health conditions. 2020-03-19
A Russian court in Moscow sentences five men to prison for the 2006 assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. 2014-06-9
A district court in Moscow convicts the late investment fund auditor Sergei Magnitsky of tax evasion in Russia's first posthumous trial. 2013-07-11
300 Muslims are arrested in Moscow, Russia while they pray at a mosque in an apparent crackdown on radical Islam. 2013-06-9
A G20 finance ministers meeting occurs in Moscow, Russia, with the focus on so-called currency wars. 2013-02-16
A Moscow court convicts three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and enmity" and jails them for two years. 2012-08-17
A Russian military garrison near Naro-Fominsk outside Moscow moves its artillery rockets to a safer location as the wildfires get nearer. 2010-08-5