Sources: The Guardian
Police in Baku, Azerbaijan, raid the office of the Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik, alleging its operations in Azerbaijan are via "illegal financing" after its official accreditation was revoked in February. 2025-06-30
A Dassault Falcon 10 jet carrying six people and flying between Thailand and Russia crashes in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan. Two people are killed and four more are rescued. 2024-01-20
Russia announces that it will withdraw from the Barents Euro-Arctic Council, citing a lack of cooperation between the members of the council. 2023-09-18
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko proposes a three-way alliance between Belarus, Russia, and North Korea during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia. 2023-09-15
RT France, the French arm of the Russian state media network RT, ceases operation following the freezing of their bank accounts by the Direction générale du Trésor. 2023-01-21
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announces that the United Kingdom's state broadcaster BBC will be reformed, with the television licence fee being abolished in 2027. Funding of the BBC will also be frozen for the next two years. 2022-01-16
The U.S. State Department approves the sale of 341 FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missiles and 30 command launch units to NATO ally Lithuania amid rising tensions with Russia. 2021-12-21
The Verkhovna Rada passes a law banning registration of the Sputnik V vaccine developed by Russia. 2021-01-29
Russia bans 18 American diplomats from entering the country, in retaliation for similar restrictions placed on 18 Russian officials by the Magnitsky Act. 2013-04-13
The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in New Delhi, India, for the 2012 BRICS summit. 2012-03-29