Sources: The Guardian
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe visits Moscow, Russia, on an unscheduled military flight to meet with Russian intelligence officials, marking the first known visit by a U.S. CIA director to Russia since 2021. 2026-08-25
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news agency Sputnik, alleging its operations in Azerbaijan are via "illegal financing" after its official accreditation was revoked in February. 2025-06-30
The European Commission announces that top European Union officials including European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary during its rotating EU Presidency, in response to rogue meetings made by Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán to Russia and China regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 2024-07-15
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
Russia reports a record 1,178 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 240,871. 2021-11-2
A senior advisor to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accuses Russia of arming Armenia since the start of the recent border clashes. 2020-08-29
Emergency teams comb snowy fields outside Moscow Monday for debris from a crashed Russian airliner and the remains of the 71 people who died. Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov says that emergency teams have already found the plane's flight data recorder, which will help them determine the crash's cause, but notes that the search for the victims' remains will take at least a week. 2018-02-12
The appeal hearing in the Russian band Pussy Riot's case is delayed after one member of the group fired their lawyer. 2012-10-1
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia did not abuse legal processes to destroy Yukos, once its largest oil company. 2011-09-20