Sources: Space.com
The Russian-installed head of Liubymivka, Kakhovka Raion, Andrei Shlepa, is assassinated in a car bombing in the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region. Russia accuses Ukraine of being behind the attack. 2022-12-22
A Russian airstrike kills eight people and injures twelve others in Desna, Chernihiv Oblast. 2022-05-17
Myanmar approves the use of the Sputnik V vaccine developed by Russia. 2021-02-6
Montenegrins head to the polls to elect a new session to parliament. Neither the ruling pro-Western coalition, dominated by the Democratic Party of Socialists, nor the pro-Russian and Serbia opposition are projected to have a majority. 2020-08-30
Yulia Skripal is released from hospital. Russia says it will view any resettlement efforts by the United Kingdom as "abduction." 2018-04-10
Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of Russia, says that Russia's bombing campaign will continue until terrorist organisations like ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra are defeated; the Syrian opposition's High Negotiations Committee has voiced outrage at an ongoing government offensive backed by Russian air power and called for a halt to air strikes against civilians, among other demands. 2016-02-3
Thousands protest and clash with police in Montenegro's capital Podgorica, demanding the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Milo Đukanović. Đukanović has rejected calls to resign and has accused the opposition of trying to prevent the country's NATO membership, saying he is convinced Russia is behind the unrest. 2015-10-24
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
HTV-3 detaches from the ISS for a burial in the Pacific Ocean. ATV 3 thrusts the ISS' orbit two kilometers up. TMA-04M will land on 17 September. ATV-003, named "Edoardo Amaldi", is planned to disconnect on September 25th and burn up itself and a load of trash in the atmosphere over the same ocean. 2012-09-14