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Russia and several Western nations, including Germany and the United States, conduct a major prisoner exchange mediated by Turkey, with ten prisoners being transferred to Russia, thirteen to Germany, and three to the United States. Journalist Evan Gershkovich, former marine Paul Whelan, and Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza are among those freed.
2024-08-1

Around 2,500 houses are flooded and at least four people are killed after the Orsk dam in Orenburg, Russia, bursts due to maintenance errors following heavy rainfall. Around 47,000 people in Russia and Kazakhstan are evacuated. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev calls it one of the "worst natural disasters in the past 80 years".
2024-04-6

The United States Tennis Association says that tennis players from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete at the upcoming US Open tournament despite the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which is expected to be held in New York after Wimbledon banned them from doing so.
2022-06-14

Russia reports a record 40,351 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 8.47 million.
2021-10-30

Russia requests for the United Kingdom to release "every possible element of evidence" proving Russian involvement and requests the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to call a special session tomorrow.
2018-04-3

A bus crashes on a highway in Dagestan, Russia, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more.
2016-07-13

A Russian Su-27 jet intercepts a United States Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane while in international airspace over the Baltic Sea. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says, "We condemn this kind of behavior. It is reckless. It is provocative. It is dangerous."
2016-04-17

Japan announces it will fall in line with American sanctions against Russia for its role in promoting the secession of Crimea from Ukraine.
2014-03-18

An unknown assailant throws acid in the face of Sergei Filin, who is the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre, leaving him partially blind. The attack is attributed to the current power struggle for the famed Russian opera house.
2013-01-18

Scientists record what they believe to be the first adult white orca in the wild off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia.
2012-04-23