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The Dutch owner of Yandex, a Russian multinational technology company and search engine, announces the sale of the company to a "fully Russian-owned entity" for 475 billion rubles (US$5.2 billion).
2024-02-6

Russia blocks access to the Finnish, Russian and English websites of Finnish state broadcaster Yle, on orders of the Prosecutor-General of Russia.
2022-06-2

Russia is disqualified from competing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 due to its invasion of Ukraine.
2022-02-25

Russia reports a record for the third consecutive day of 1,159 deaths from COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 235,057. The country also reports a record 40,096 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 8.39 million.
2021-10-28

Russia confirms that a fireball seen over much of New Zealand on January 5 was its Kosmos 2430 missile early warning satellite, which was launched in 2007.
2019-01-10

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in New Delhi, India, for the 2012 BRICS summit.
2012-03-29

Voters in Russia go to the polls for a presidential election with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claiming victory despite allegations of voter fraud.
2012-03-4

The world's 8th-largest search engine, Yandex, expands into Turkey, marking its first venture outside the Commonwealth of Independent States.
2011-09-20

Pilot error is suspected to be the cause of the crash of RusAir Flight 9605 in Petrozavodsk, Russia, which killed 44 people on 20 June.
2011-06-21

The leaders, including Russia, call for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to step down.
2011-05-27