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The United States removes NATO ally Turkey from the Joint Strike Fighter program, following the country's acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile system. Turkey had planned to buy 100 F-35 Lightning II jets.
2019-07-17

The Western-backed Syrian rebel group, the Free Syrian Army, says one of its 'leading officers' has been killed in a Russian airstrike in the central Homs Governorate.
2015-09-30

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

A forest fire grows in size near Russia's main nuclear research centre in Sarov.
2010-08-13

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