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An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crashes in North Darfur, Sudan, killing its crew of two Russians and three Sudanese nationals. The Rapid Support Forces claim that they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile and say that they have recovered the airplane's flight recorder. Russia says that its diplomats in Sudan are currently investigating the crash.
2024-10-21

A court in the Netherlands sentences two Russians, Igor Strelkov-Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky, and a Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist Leonid Kharchenko to life imprisonment for shooting down the Malaysia Airlines flight over Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine in 2014. The verdict was delivered "in absentia" of the defendants.
2022-11-17

Eight people are killed when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonates his explosives near the entrance of the Russian embassy in Kabul. Two of the victims were Russian staff members.
2022-09-5

Kira Yarmysh, the official spokeswoman for incarcerated Russian activist Alexei Navalny, leaves Russia, reportedly travelling to Helsinki, Finland, after a court sentenced her to a restriction of movements for 18 months due to alleged breaches of COVID-19 restrictions.
2021-08-30

The number of Russians vaccinated against COVID-19 surpasses eight million.
2021-04-16

Russia repatriates 26 Russian children from a Syrian refugee camp.
2020-02-7

A team of Russian scientists in collaboration with Princeton University announce in a new report that they have brought two female nematodes frozen in permafrost from around 42,000 years ago back to life. The two nematodes are now the oldest confirmed living animals on the planet.
2018-07-26

Greek Coast Guard intercepts a Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship, "Nour M", with around 20,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles on board. The ship's Turkish captain and seven crew members were arrested.
2013-11-10

A gunman kills three people with a Kalashnikov rifle in a shooting attack in Istres, France.
2013-04-25

Nine people, including Russians and Ukrainians, die in a bus accident in Egypt.
2010-11-20