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Outgoing South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov announces that a referendum on joining Russia will be held on July 17.
2022-05-14

The International Court of Justice orders Russia to immediately halt its invasion of Ukraine.
2022-03-16

Kyrgyzstan receives a shipment of 80,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.
2021-06-17

The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences nineteen Russian women, six Azerbaijani women, and four Tajikistani women to life in prison for membership to ISIL.
2018-04-29

Three people (two American, one Russian) launch successfully from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz MS-08 to the International Space Station as part of Expedition 55.
2018-03-21

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Russia now formally recognizes Petro Poroshenko as the legitimate President of Ukraine in the hope that Poroshenko will "live up to Russia's trust."
2014-08-25

A large skirmish occurs in eastern Ukraine when pro-Russian separatists launch a massive attack on a border control centre near the city of Luhansk; five militants are killed and another eight are wounded, and seven Ukrainian border guards are wounded in the clash.
2014-06-2

300 Muslims are arrested in Moscow, Russia while they pray at a mosque in an apparent crackdown on radical Islam.
2013-06-9

The U.S. Senate votes to repeal the Jackson–Vanik amendment, a long-standing trade restriction with Russia. In its place, the Magnitsky bill is adopted instead. The law requires the United States to place financial and visa restrictions on a list of officials associated with the torture and death of Sergei Magnitsky three years ago.
2012-12-6

The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia violated the rights of ten relatives of victims of the 1940 Katyn Massacre, and describes the massacre as a war crime.
2012-04-16