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Events in Russian History

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Summit of Interest

2005-02-23 Slovakia Summit 2005 begins; George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend - 1st visit of a sitting US President to Slovakia

2005-07-02 Live 8 concert in Red Square, Moscow, Russia; performers include Pet Shop Boys, Agata Kristi, Splean, and Red Elvises
2005-08-19 The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins
2005-09-08 Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.

Hero of the Nation Marina Popovich

2007-01-14 Legendary Russian test pilot Marina Popovich is awarded the honorary title "The Hero of the Nation" by the Russian Federation

Funeral of Boris Yeltsin

2007-04-25 Boris Yeltsin's funeral, the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Tsar Alexander III in 1894

2007-04-27 Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Honored

2007-06-12 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin

Writer and Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2007-07-14 Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
2007-09-11 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.

Event of Interest

2008-04-30 Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia, were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters

Event of Interest

2008-05-07 Dmitry Medvedev is sworn in as the 3rd President of the Russian Federation

Event of Interest

2008-05-08 Dmitry Medvedev appoints Vladimir Putin as Russian Prime Minister

2008-08-01 Russian supported forces of self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia attack Georgian villages, breaking a 1992 cease-fire agreement
2008-08-07 Russo-Georgian War: Georgia moves troops into Russian supported self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia in response to aggression; 1st European war of the 21st century.
2008-08-08 Russo-Georgian War: Russia launches a full-scale land, air and sea invasion of Georgia, referring to it as a 'peace enforcement' operation after Georgia responded to aggression from South Ossetian

Agreement of Interest

2008-08-12 Russo-Georgian War: Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, negotiates ceasefire agreement between Russia and Georgia, ending a brief war after 5 days of hostilities

2008-08-26 Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, prompting the Georgian government to sever diplomatic relations with Russia
2008-11-25 A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one

Nicholas II Remains Identified

2008-12-05 Human remains previously found in 1991 are finally identified by Russian and American scientists as those of Tsar Nicholas II

Event of Interest

2014-03-10 German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia's Vladimir Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution

2014-03-16 Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design
2014-03-18 Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing Treaty on Accession
2014-03-18 Transnistria formally requests to join the Russian Federation
2014-03-19 Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol
2014-03-21 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
2014-03-22 The US and EU impose sanctions on Russia
2014-03-27 UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea
2014-03-28 Russia increases the price of gas to Ukraine by 80%
2014-04-01 NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia
2014-04-10 The Council of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote
2014-04-30 Masked gunmen and pro-Russian separatists take control of more buildings in eastern Ukraine
2014-05-02 The Kiev regime launch a raid against pro-Russian forces, who respond by shooting down two helicopters
2014-05-07 Fighting between pro-Russian and Kiev forces continue amid fears internationally of a civil war in Ukraine
2014-05-21 Russian President Putin signs agreements with China in Beijing in relation to trade and infrastructure
2014-05-23 Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria
2014-07-17 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
2014-07-30 The EU and US extend sanctions on Russia to include banks, energy, and defense firms; Moscow denies the allegation that Russia is arming rebels in Eastern Ukraine

Gorbachev's Warning

2014-11-08 Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War

Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

2014-11-15 Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense
2014-12-04 Ukraine and Pro-Russian rebels agree to cease fire in the eastern war zone, beginning December 9
2015-01-01 Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
2015-02-27 Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow
2015-03-27 Russia's Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members to the international space station to research the long-term effects of micro gravity
2015-04-01 56 people are killed after the Russian trawler Dalniy Vostok sinks off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula
2015-05-17 Canada defeats Russia to win gold at the 2015 IIHF World Championship
2015-08-04 A plague of locusts in Southern Russia prompts a state of emergency to be declared
2015-10-31 Russian airliner crashes killing all 224 on board in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt - Russia's worst air disaster
2015-11-24 Turkey shots down a Russian fighter jet after claiming it had flown into Turkish airspace

Meeting of Interest

2016-02-12 Pope Francis meets Patriarch Kirill in Havana - first meeting between Catholic and Russian Orthodox church heads for nearly 1,000 years

2016-02-28 Explosion at Severnaya coal mine in Vorkuta, Russia kills 36, including 5 rescuers

Event of Interest

2016-03-02 US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record

2016-03-14 President Vladimir Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria
2016-06-18 Soyuz capsule returns to Earth 1st British International Space Station astronaut Tim Peake, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Timothy Kopra after 186 days
2016-07-07 Deadlock in battle for Aleppo broken when Russian air strikes cut rebel access to the city, 250,000 people put under siege
2016-09-18 In Russian elections Vladimir Putin-backed United Russia party wins 54% of Parliamentary seats led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
2016-10-18 US White Houses says it is "confident" Russia behind recent email hacking and attempts to influence US election
2016-12-19 Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead at an art gallery in Ankara by Turkish gunman
2016-12-25 Russian military defence plane crashes into the Black Sea after takeoff from Sochi airport, killing all 92 on board

Obama Punishes Russia

2016-12-29 US President Barack Obama retaliates against Russia for hacking American computer systems and trying to influence the 2016 presidential election by ejecting 35 Russian spies and imposing sanctions

2016-12-30 A ceasefire organised by Russia, Iran and Turkey between Syria's government and opposition groups takes effect

Event of Interest

2017-02-13 US President Donald Trump accepts the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn over his dealings with Russia

45th US President, Businessman and TV Personality Donald Trump

Event of Interest

2017-03-02 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador

US Senator and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Event of Interest

2017-03-26 Anti-corruption protests in Russia result in hundreds arrested including opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Political Activist and Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny

Event of Interest

2017-05-10 US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office

Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov

2017-05-29 Violent storm and high winds in Moscow, Russia leaves 13 dead
2017-06-12 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced to 30 days administrative arrest for organizing rallies
2017-06-13 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians
2017-06-14 US Senate approves new sanctions against Russia as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election
2017-06-19 Russia warns the US it will target US and allied aircraft over Syria after US fighter shoots down Syrian warplane
2017-07-02 FIFA Confederations Cup: Germany defeats Chile 1-0 to win for the 1st time at Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Kushner Deneys Russia Collusion

2017-07-24 Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators

Son-in-law and Adviser to Donald Trump Jared Kushner

2017-07-30 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions
2017-08-02 US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them
2017-10-13 Hungry bear crisis due to over-fishing leaves 2 people dead and 83 hostile bears shot on Sakhalin Island, Eastern Russia
2017-12-05 Russia is banned from the next Winter Olympics in South Korea over state-sponsored doping
2018-02-03 Moscow, Russia has its heaviest snowfall in a day on record (43 cm / 17 inches), killing one and bringing down 2,000 trees
2018-02-11 Russian airliner crashes south-east of Moscow, killing all 71 on board
2018-03-01 Vladimir Putin in his annual state address claims Russia has an "invincible” intercontinental cruise missile
2018-03-04 Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal are poisoned by nerve agent in Salisbury, England

Skripal Poisonings

2018-03-12 British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was "highly likely" to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4 with nerve agent

2018-03-14 UK announces it will expel 23 Russian diplomats after Russian-made nerve agent used on former spy in UK
2018-03-18 Vladimir Putin is elected to a new six-year term as Russian President with 76% of the vote, his fourth term
2018-03-23 A Sahara sandstorm turns snow in Sochi, Russia, orange in one of the largest-ever transfers of desert sand
2018-03-25 Fire in a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Russia, kills at least 64
2018-03-26 US, European Union and Ukraine expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to Russian use of nerve gas in UK
2018-05-07 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years
2018-05-15 Controversial Kerch bridge linking Russia and annexed Crimea opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin. At 19km the longest bridge in Europe.
2018-05-29 Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko fakes his own death with Ukrainian security services to foil an assassination plot
2018-06-30 Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England; authorities suspect source was left over poison from the attack on former Russian spies Sergei Skripal and his daughter
2018-07-13 US Department of Justice charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with cyber-attacks against Democratic officials during 2016 US election
2018-07-14 Russian covert agent Maria Butina arrested by the FBI in Washington, D.C. and charged with being an unregistered foreign agent
2018-07-14 US President Donald Trump calls the EU a "trade foe" in interview with CBS ahead of meeting with Russian President Putin
2018-07-16 US President Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit
2018-07-19 Russian ship Dmitri Donskoii, with possible cargo of gold coins is discovered in waters between South Korea and Japan where it sunk in 1905
2018-07-31 Facebook discloses and removes Russian-linked network of sites attempting to interfere in American politics
2018-08-08 US State Department imposes new sanctions on Russia for nerve attack in Britain
2018-08-29 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces new retirement ages, 60 for women, 65 for men in TV address, amid protests
2018-09-05 UK Prime Minister Theresa May confirms in parliament two Russian military intelligence officers undertook novichok nerve agent attack, prompts international condemnation
2018-09-09 Russian police detain over 1000 people amid nationwide protests against pension reform
2018-09-11 Russia launches its largest military exercise since 1981 involving 300,000 personal with Chinese troops participating
2018-09-21 Fossil of Dickinsonia, “the Holy Grail of palaeontology” proven to be oldest known animal fossil, 558 million years old from White Sea, Russia
2018-10-11 Russian Soyuz spacecraft makes emergency landing when rocket fails two minutes after liftoff, with American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut aboard
2018-10-20 President Trump threatens to pull the US out of an arms control agreement with Russia because Russia has violated its terms
2018-11-26 Ukraine declares martial law in areas bordering Russia after Russia seizes three of its naval vessels
2018-12-07 Court filings by US federal prosecutors and Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Michael Cohen appear to implicate President Donald Trump on campaign fraud and Russian dealings
2018-12-10 Russia's most prolific mass murderer Mikhail Popkov sentenced to second life sentence for total of 56 murders
2018-12-12 Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev compete complex spacewalk to fix hole in Soyuz spacecraft

Ukrainian Orthodox Church

2018-12-15 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announces establishment of independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, splitting from Russian Orthodox

2018-12-17 New reports to US Senate say Russian propaganda efforts on social media much more extensive than thought, including targeting African Americans
2019-01-05 Orthodox Church of Ukraine granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
2019-01-14 US President Donald Trump denies he is a Russian agent after NY Times article states the FBI started an investigation and the Washington Post raised issues over a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
2019-01-15 LGBTQ activists accuse the Russian republic of Chechnya of a new gay purge with 40 detained and two killed
2019-01-30 Russian Senator Rauf Arashukov arrested within parliament on two murder charges
2019-02-01 US President Donald Trump confirms US withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty because of Russia's violation of the treaty
2019-03-24 US Attorney William Barr summarizes report submitted by Special Council Robert S. Mueller (The Mueller Report) in a letter to Congress stating "investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities" and "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense"
2019-05-05 At least 41 people die when a Russian Aeroflot plane catches fire after an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow
2019-06-11 Russian journalist Ivan Golunov released from prison and drug charges dropped after major public outcry with unprecedented joint campaign by Russian news sources
2019-06-22 Russian volcano Raikoke erupts from 700m-wide-crater, seen from International Space Station. Turns sunsets purple across the Northern Hemisphere all summer.
2019-07-04 Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican
2019-07-22 Air strikes have killed at least 31 people in Maarat al-Numan, north-western Syria, with Russian planes supporting Syrian government being blamed
2019-07-24 Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump
2019-07-31 Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian army to help put out huge wildfires in Siberia covering three million hectares (7.4 million acres) after 700,000 people sign petition
2019-08-08 Nuclear accident at Russian nuclear-weapon testing site at closed city Sarov kills five scientists in mysterious circumstances
2019-08-22 Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
2019-08-23 Russia launches the 1st floating nuclear power station the Akademik Lomonosov from port of Murmansk
2019-09-25 Hazzaa Al Mansoori becomes first Emirati in space and the first Arab astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, travelling on Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft
2019-10-21 Facebook says it has taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns, three from Iran, one from Russia in addition to dozens earlier this year
2019-10-22 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agree deal to jointly control former Kurdish territory in Northern Syria
2019-11-09 Prominent Russian history professor Oleg Sokolov discovered with severed arms of his murder victim in his backpack when rescued from Moika River, St Petersburg
2020-03-02 Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes constitutional amendment banning gay marriage
2020-03-06 Russia refuses to reduce oil production over COVID-19 fears, breaking with Saudi Arabia and OPEC and prompting a price war
2020-03-10 Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold office of President for life
2020-03-30 Russian city Moscow begins a city-wide lockdown after 4 hours notice due to COVID-19
2020-04-28 President Vladimir Putin warns Russia has not yet reached the peak of COVID-19 infections, with 93,000 recorded cases and 867 deaths
2020-04-30 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail V. Mishustin says he has COVID-19
2020-05-04 World leaders pledge $8 billion to research treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19, with the US and Russia not taking part
2020-05-12 Russia's confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 232,000, 2nd highest in the world, a day after President Vladimir Putin eased the country's lockdown
2020-06-04 State of Emergency declared after 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil spills near Russian city of Norilsk, Siberia within the Arctic Circle
2020-06-24 Russia celebrates its victory 75 years ago over Nazi Germany with huge military parade through Red Square in Moscow (delayed from May 9 due to pandemic)
2020-06-26 New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan
2020-07-01 Europe opens its borders to 15 safe countries after months of lockdown, excluding the US, Brazil and Russia
2020-07-01 Russian President Vladimir Putin wins national referendum allowing longer presidential terms of office
2020-07-07 India surpasses Russia to become the world's third-worst affected country, daily COVID-19 cases exceeding 20,000 and total cases over 700,000
2020-07-21 Russian interference in British politics is 'the new normal' according to report by British Intelligence and Security Committee
2020-08-11 President Vladimir Putin in a propaganda stunt announces Russia has become the 1st country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine, called “Sputnik V", despite no scientific data being published or phase 3 trials having even begun
2020-08-20 Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny falls into a coma after a suspected poisoning (later confirmed to be Novichok poisoning)
2020-10-19 US charges six Russian military officers with massive cyber-attack meant to disrupt 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2017 French presidential election, and Ukraine's power grid
2020-10-21 FBI says Iran and Russia have US voter information and are trying to influence outcome of US election
2020-11-10 Ceasefire announced signed between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia ending military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region after over a month of fighting
2020-12-05 Russia begins vaccinating people with its Sputnik V vaccine in Moscow, despite the vaccine not finishing clinical trials
2020-12-14 Russia revealed to have been behind massive cyberattack on US government agencies and private companies since the Spring
2021-01-17 Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is arrested immediately on his return to Russia after recovering from nerve-agent poisoning [1]
2021-01-31 Widespread protests in Russia against detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the government with 5,000 people arrested
2021-02-02 Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine deemed 91.6% effective according to analysis published in "The Lancet" [1]