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The European Union sanctions fourteen Iranian individuals and firms, including Iran Air and several high-ranking members of the Quds Force, for allegedly transferring missiles and drones to Moscow in order to help Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. 2024-10-15
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
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announces a stay-at-home order for unvaccinated or unrecovered people age 60 years and older for four months and ordering businesses to shift 30% of their workers to remote work beginning from October 25 due to record 1,015 deaths in Russia over the past 24 hours. 2021-10-19
Two people are killed and four injured in a mass shooting outside Russia's Federal Security Service headquarters on Moscow's Lubyanka Square. The shooter is also killed. 2019-12-19
At least 11 people are killed and 69 are injured as a severe thunderstorm hits Moscow, Russia. 2017-05-29
Finland and Russia agree to impose temporary restrictions at two Arctic border crossing points on the Finnish–Russian border following an increased flow of asylum seekers from Russia to Finland. Under a deal clinched by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in Moscow, crossings at two popular entry points, Salla and Raja-Jooseppi, will be reserved only for Finnish, Russian and Belarusian citizens and their family members for a period of 180 days. 2016-03-22
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
Prominent Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny registers himself to stand in September's vote for Moscow mayor. 2013-07-10
A G20 finance ministers meeting occurs in Moscow, Russia, with the focus on so-called currency wars. 2013-02-16
The United States is pleased after Russia suggests Iran could build a nuclear weapon in future, an unusual admission from Moscow. 2010-07-12