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Russia carries out another wave of cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with strikes reported in Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, where two people were confirmed to have been killed overnight by a missile. In Dnipro and Odesa, critical infrastructure is also targeted.
2022-11-17

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signs legislation banning all Russian films made after January 1, 2014. The legislation also bans movies produced by Russia after 1991 if they "glorify the work of government bodies" of Russia, citing such movies to be a threat to national security.
2016-04-21

For failure to deal with the recent wildfires the head of Russia's forestry agency is fired by Vladimir Putin and replaced with his deputy.
2010-08-20

Russia announces that it is slowly bringing the 2010 Russian wildfires under control.
2010-08-14

Doctors in Moscow are encouraged to use "less frightening" causes of death as the mortality rate from heatstroke soars with fires burning across Russia.
2010-08-12

Fires are reported in Russia's nuclear-contaminated forests from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, amid concerns about the spread of radiation.
2010-08-11

Pollution hits record levels in Moscow as large wildfires continue to devastate Russia.
2010-08-7

A Russian military garrison near Naro-Fominsk outside Moscow moves its artillery rockets to a safer location as the wildfires get nearer.
2010-08-5

Hundreds of new wildfires erupt in Russia as fire has damaged or destroyed 27 towns and villages.
2010-08-2