Sources: RT
Russian president Vladimir Putin declares a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine for May 8–10 to mark the World War II Victory Day. 2025-04-28
Thousands of fighting-age men continue to leave Russia due to the mobilization. Massive lines are reported at the country's borders with Georgia and Finland. 2022-09-24
South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics suspends all shipments to Russia due "to current geopolitical developments". Samsung is the largest supplier of smartphones in Russia with a 30% market share. 2022-03-5
Russia surpasses eight million cases of COVID-19 after reporting a record for the fourth consecutive day of 34,325 new cases. 2021-10-18
Belarus threatens to take oil from the Druzhba pipeline which carries Russian oil to central Europe across its territory, if Russia does not supply it with the required volumes of crude oil. Russian oil supplies to Belarus have not been agreed for 2020 and shipments have dwindled to 500,000 tonnes, down from a planned 2 million tonnes. 2020-02-14
At a meeting of the OPCW, 17 of the 41 countries abstain from a vote on not allowing Russia to participate in the inquiry. 15 countries vote in favour and six against. Three countries were not present at the meeting. 2018-04-4
The leaders of Iran, Turkey and Russia meet in Ankara. They declare their commitment to achieving a "lasting ceasefire" in Syria. 2018-04-4
The Western-backed Syrian rebel group, the Free Syrian Army, says one of its 'leading officers' has been killed in a Russian airstrike in the central Homs Governorate. 2015-09-30
Insurgency in the North Caucasus: Dozens are killed and wounded as fighting intensifies between the Russian forces and the local Muslim insurgents in Chechnya and Dagestan. 2012-02-17
Yuri Budanov, a Russian colonel convicted of strangling an 18-year-old Chechen girl during the Chechen War, is shot dead in Moscow. 2011-06-10