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Russia launches a Soyuz-2 rocket carrying the Kosmos 2576 satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome launch site in Arkhangelsk Oblast. The United States Space Command accuses it of being an anti-satellite weapon capable of attacking other satellites, and is in the same orbit as a satellite operated by the National Reconnaissance Office.
2024-05-22

A Sukhoi Su-34 crashes into an apartment building in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, killing at least 15 people and wounding 19 more.
2022-10-17

Iraq sentences seven foreign women for links to Islamic State. Three Azerbaijanis and one Kergyz receive death sentences while two Russians and a French women receive life sentences.
2018-04-17

The Interfax agency states that Russia retaliated with a missile attack, killing at least 30 Al-Nusra militants in North-West Syria with "precision-guided weapons".
2018-02-3

British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon says only five percent of Russia's airstrikes in Syria have targeted Islamic State extremists. Instead, other Syrian rebel groups, including the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, have been attacked. "Our evidence indicates they are dropping unguided munitions in civilian areas, killing civilians," Fallon added.
2015-10-3

A large skirmish occurs in eastern Ukraine when pro-Russian separatists launch a massive attack on a border control centre near the city of Luhansk; five militants are killed and another eight are wounded, and seven Ukrainian border guards are wounded in the clash.
2014-06-2

Russian president Vladimir Putin sacks the chief of the armed forces Nikolai Makarov, three days after sacking the defence minister amid a corruption scandal.
2012-11-9

Russia's Central Election Commission refuses to register opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky of the Yabloko party, citing invalid signatures.
2012-01-27

Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, is jailed for seven years for exceeding her powers by entering a gas deal with Russia.
2011-10-11

President Nicolas Sarkozy defends his plans to sell up to four French warships to Russia, despite concerns raised by his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili during talks taking place a few days before a visit to Paris of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
2010-06-9