Sources: Space.com
Hungary announces the deployment of a missile defense system on its border with Ukraine, saying that the threat of escalation with Russia is now "greater than ever". 2024-11-21
A court in Russia sentences Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to six and a half years in prison in a secret trial. 2024-07-22
Russian President Vladimir Putin issues a decree granting Russian citizenship to foreigners who fight for Russia in the war against Ukraine, and for their families. 2024-01-4
Russia launches drone attacks on Sumy, Ukraine, killing two people and injuring 19 others. In response to the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for a major upgrade of anti-aircraft defences. 2023-07-3
A pair of Tu-22M3 bombers are seen flying across Belarus amid large joint military drills and tensions between Russia and Ukraine. 2022-02-5
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports the al-Nusra Front's spokesperson Abu Firas al-Suri was among 20 militants killed in a suspected Russian airstrike on a village near the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria. 2016-04-3
In Russia, Leonid Khabarov is convicted for an alleged role in a coup plot. 2013-02-27
The Russian Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Thomas Marshburn for the ISS Expedition 34 and 35 crews. 2012-12-19
Russia and Japan schedule a sub-cabinet level meeting for October in Tokyo to discuss the Kuril Islands dispute. 2012-09-26
Prominent Russian journalist Oleg Kashin for the "Kommersant" newspaper is attacked outside his home in Moscow. 2010-11-6