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The embassies of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan urge their citizens to leave areas near Ukrainian combat zones or to leave the nation altogether via designated land and air routes following escalating risk of Russian retaliatory attacks.
2024-11-20

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announces that Armenia will withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization amid deteriorating relations with Russia.
2024-06-12

Kazakhstan will lift their COVID-19 travel restrictions at the country's borders with Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Uzbekistan.
2022-04-7

"Pokémon Go" suspends operations in Russia and Belarus following the invasion.
2022-03-12

Russia attacks the Zhytomyr Airport using Iskander ballistic missiles launched from Belarus.
2022-02-28

Anti-war demonstrators gather in Minsk, Belarus, to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine despite Belarus's involvement in the invasion. Around 440 people are detained in the protests.
2022-02-27

Russia and Belarus begin a 10-day military exercise known as "Allied Resolve-2022" amid ongoing tensions with Ukraine. The United States and NATO denounce the exercise, with NATO calling it the biggest deployment of Russian troops since the Cold War.
2022-02-10

Amidst ongoing protests against Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus abruptly closes its borders with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine, while leaving its border with Russia open. Lukashenko insists that the move is to restrict the spread of COVID-19.
2020-10-29

The Armenian ambassador to the United States, Varuzhan Nersesyan, says, "Right now, what is necessary is an intervention of the highest levels, together with other mediators, Russia and France, to stop the violence."
2020-10-1

Finland and Russia agree to impose temporary restrictions at two Arctic border crossing points on the Finnish–Russian border following an increased flow of asylum seekers from Russia to Finland. Under a deal clinched by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in Moscow, crossings at two popular entry points, Salla and Raja-Jooseppi, will be reserved only for Finnish, Russian and Belarusian citizens and their family members for a period of 180 days.
2016-03-22