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news agency Sputnik, alleging its operations in Azerbaijan are via "illegal financing" after its official accreditation was revoked in February. 2025-06-30
Five people are killed in a fire at a dormitory building in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia. 2024-06-29
The North Korea–Russia summit is held at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia, lasting for four hours. Russian President Vladimir Putin accepts an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a reciprocal summit in North Korea. 2023-09-13
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
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
The Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic declare a full military mobilisation, a day after beginning to evacuate civilians to Russia. 2022-02-19
Russia reports a record 36,339 new cases and 1,030 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 8.13 million and the nationwide death toll to 227,389. 2021-10-21
Russia reports a record 456 new fatalities in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 34,387. In addition, a record 25,179 recoveries are reported, outnumbering new cases for the first time since September 16. 2020-11-18
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders an inquiry into the disputed results of the parliamentary elections. 2011-12-11
India and Russia sign a range of treaties including on development of a fifth-generation stealth fighter and provision of nuclear reactors from Russia to India. 2010-12-21