Sources: RIA Novosti
U.S. president Donald Trump issues an executive order raising the total tariff on Indian imports to the United States to 50%, with an additional 25% that will take effect 21 days after August 7 due to its purchases of Russian oil. 2025-08-6
Four inmates linked to the Islamic State seize control of a prison in Surovikino, Volgograd Oblast, Russia, and take hostages, killing four prison staff members and injuring three others. The attackers are shot dead by responding security forces. 2024-08-23
Four people are killed and ten others are injured in a hot water pipe burst accident at a mall in Moscow, Russia. 2023-07-22
Russian authorities detain hundreds of protesters, including "Novaya Gazeta" journalist and protest organizer Ilya Azar and other reporters, at an "unauthorized march" in Moscow demanding punishment for police who detained anti-corruption journalist Ivan Golunov. Golunov's charges were dropped and he was released yesterday at which time Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said some officers who had taken part in his detention were suspended pending an investigation. 2019-06-12
A Russian Mil Mi-8 military helicopter carrying humanitarian aid onboard is shot down by rebels in northern Syria. All five members of the crew die in the crash. 2016-08-1
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, during a visit to Slovakia for talks on the future of NATO, says Russia is more dangerous than the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). “By all evidence, Russia’s activity is a sort of existential threat because this activity can destroy countries,” Waszczykowski told reporters in Bratislava. He described ISIL as a very serious threat but said “it is not an existential threat for Europe”. 2016-04-15
Russia bans all United States agricultural products, European Union fruit and vegetable imports in response to Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. 2014-08-6
The $3 million special Fundamental Physics Prize is awarded to Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist. Seven scientists who led the Large Hadron Collider and discovered Higgs-like particle share another $3 million special prize which was founded by a Russian physicist and internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner. 2012-12-11
The ".рф" (".rf" - Russian Federation) Cyrillic country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is officially launched, the fourth internationalized country code. The first two web sites available on “.рф” are 2010-05-13
A smoke bomb is thrown in the Ukrainian parliament during protests after Ukraine's extension of the lease on a Russian naval base in Sevastopol. 2010-04-27