Sources: RIA Novosti
Ukrainian forces launch drone attacks on two oil refineries in Russia, the Yaroslavl refinery and a Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Bashkortostan, causing large fires at the facilities. 2026-08-6
Russia says that it will continue its military presence in Mali to provide assistance to the Malian government. 2026-04-30
Russia fires more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, targeting mostly western and central Ukraine and wounding at least five people, in response to the attacks, Poland scrambles its fighter jets and places ground-based air defenses and radar systems on maximum readiness. 2025-09-3
Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a law formally withdrawing Russia's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. However, Russia maintains that it will not resume nuclear weapons testing unless the United States also resumes testing. 2023-11-2
Azerbaijan approves general use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. 2021-03-12
Temperatures reach −67 C in Russia's Yakutia region, four degrees shy of the record low of −71 C recorded in 2013 in Yakutia's village of Oymyakon. 2018-01-16
Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of Russia, says that Russia's bombing campaign will continue until terrorist organisations like ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra are defeated; the Syrian opposition's High Negotiations Committee has voiced outrage at an ongoing government offensive backed by Russian air power and called for a halt to air strikes against civilians, among other demands. 2016-02-3
300 Muslims are arrested in Moscow, Russia while they pray at a mosque in an apparent crackdown on radical Islam. 2013-06-9
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