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Russian police arrest former head of personnel of the Ministry of Defence Yuri Vasilievich Kuznetsov, Юрий Васильевич (военачальник) for bribery of over $1 million. Kuznetsov's charges carry up to 15 years of jail time.
2024-05-14

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says that Belarusian troops are not willing to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine.
2022-03-24

Vietnam approves the emergency use of the American Moderna and Russian Sputnik V vaccines.
2021-02-26

A friend of poisoned exiled Russian spy Sergei Skripal claims Skripal had written to Vladimir Putin asking to return to Russia. Russia denies receiving such a letter.
2018-03-24

French National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin and afterwards urges that European Union sanctions on Russia be lifted.
2017-03-24

Dutch-led investigators say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine in 2014 by a Buk missile that had come from Russia.
2016-09-28

The Turkish military releases what it says are a series of audio recordings of warnings issued to a Russian jet before it was shot down near the Syrian border.
2015-11-26

The city of Grozny in the Russian republic of Chechnya holds a protest with 60% of the population in attendance in opposition to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
2015-01-19

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

The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev visits Kunashiri, one of the southern Kuril Islands that are the subject of the Kuril Islands dispute between Russia and Japan.
2010-11-1