Sources: Space.com
At least ten people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. 2024-10-2
Five people are killed in a fire at a dormitory building in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia. 2024-06-29
Two people are killed and six others are injured in Russian overnight drone strikes on the Kharkiv and Dnipro regions of Ukraine. 2024-05-4
A mob storms Uytash Airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, as a Red Wings Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, arrives, shouting antisemitic slogans and attempting to board the plane. 2023-10-29
Russia's Gazprom announces that the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline will be shut down for 3 days of unscheduled maintenance between August 31 and September 2. 2022-08-19
Russia reports 15,150 new cases in the past 24 hours, a new daily record since the start of the pandemic as authorities grapple with the onset of a second wave. This is the first time that the country has reported more than 15,000 cases in a single day. 2020-10-16
Representatives of the Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic in Eastern Ukraine say at least five civilians are killed by artillery fire at a checkpoint in the town of Olenivka, with another 10 injured. Kiev denies the accusation. A local border-guard spokesman says there was an explosion at the checkpoint but he saw no artillery fired from either side, suggesting the blast could have been a bomb. 2016-04-27
Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine free a Swedish observer, but not the other seven European monitors they have been holding for three days. 2014-04-27
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
Luke Harding, "The Guardian"'s Moscow correspondent is expelled from Russia as a result of the paper publishing cables about Russia becoming a "mafia state". 2011-02-7