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Russia says that Ukraine launched a drone attack on Moscow, striking a building in the International Business Center. Mayor Sergey Sobyanin says that air defences shot down a drone with debris falling over the Expocentre.
2023-08-18

Russia announces that it will be suspending its mission to NATO in Brussels as early as November 1, in response to the expulsion of 8 diplomats accused of espionage from the mission earlier this month. The NATO information bureau and military liaison in Moscow will also be terminated.
2021-10-18

Russia summons the German ambassador to Moscow over statements by the German government concerning Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Germany of "bluffing".
2020-09-8

Three so-called GTA gang members are shot dead and four others are wounded, including two guards, at a courthouse in Moscow, Russia, after they attempted to escape.
2017-08-1

2014 Moscow school shooting. Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia. The suspected shooter, a 15-year-old student at the school, surrenders to authorities. It is one of the first school shootings to occur in Russia.
2014-02-3

Venezuelan television presenter María Gabriela Isler is crowned Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia.
2013-11-9

Prominent Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny registers himself to stand in September's vote for Moscow mayor.
2013-07-10

Russian police arrest prominent opposition leaders at a rally against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
2012-12-15

Russian soprano opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, wife of Mstislav Rostropovich, dies in Moscow at the age of 86.
2012-12-11

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