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At least one person is killed when two Russian oil tankers, "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-236", are damaged due to bad weather in the Kerch Strait with oil from the tankers actively leaking into the strait.
2024-12-15

Leaders at the G7 summit agree to loan Ukraine US$50 billion and use interest from Russia's frozen central bank assets as collateral for the loan.
2024-06-13

Russia and China open the new Blagoveshchensk–Heihe Bridge. The 1 km long bridge spans across the Amur river to connect Heihe in Northeastern China's Heilongjiang province with Blagoveshchensk in Far Eastern Russia's Amur Oblast. It will shorten the travel distance of freight between China and western Russia by 1,500 km.
2022-06-10

A fire occurs in a building in Moscow, Russia, injuring at least four people, with 125 people being rescued. However, the total number of people trapped inside the building is unclear.
2022-06-3

Russia summons the German ambassador to Moscow over statements by the German government concerning Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Germany of "bluffing".
2020-09-8

The European Union extends its main Ukraine-related economic sanctions against Russia for six months until mid-2017.
2016-12-15

Russian state television reports that at least 59 bodies have been recovered from the sinking of the cruise ship "Bulgaria" on the Volga River, with more than 200 people on board.
2011-07-12

The United States is pleased after Russia suggests Iran could build a nuclear weapon in future, an unusual admission from Moscow.
2010-07-12

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