11 January – Ukraine announces the capture of two North Korean soldiers during fighting in Russia's Kursk Oblast.[2]
17 January – Iran and Russia sign a "comprehensive strategic partnership treaty".[3]
23 January – The Russian spy vessel Kidin is reported to have caught fire off the coast of Syria.[4]
29 January – An illegal logger opens fire at forest rangers trying to arrest him in Usokhi, Kaluga Oblast, killing three rangers and holding two others hostage before committing suicide.[5]
February
6 February – Yury Borisov is dismissed as director-general of Roscosmos by President Putin and is replaced by Gonets head Dmitry Bakanov.[6]
8 February –
An underwater cable in the Baltic Sea owned by Rostelecom is damaged following an "external impact".[7]
At least eight people are injured in a fire at the former Elektrozavod building in Moscow.[8]
9 February – A state of emergency is declared in Sakhalin Oblast after the Chinese cargo vessel An Ying 2 runs aground off the coast of Nevelsky District.[9]
11 February –
The European Court of Human Rights rules that the Russian government had engaged in "a coordinated effort to suppress dissent" over its invasion of Ukraine.[10]
Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained in Russia for drugs charges since 2021, is released and repatriated to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange.[11]
12 February – US President Donald Trump announces the beginning of negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine following a phone call with President Putin.[12]
13 February –
The FSB says that it had killed several members of a terrorist group plotting an attack on the Pskov train station following a shootout.[13]
Cryptocurrency exchange operator Alexander Vinnik, who had been imprisoned in the United States for a cybercrime conviction, is released and repatriated to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.[15]
17 February – Konstantin Rachalovsky, the deputy governor of Rostov Oblast, is arrested on suspicion of abuse of power over the provision of state subsidies amounting to 155.2 million rubles ($1.7 million) to financially distressed companies that eventually went bankrupt.[16]
18 February – Russia and the United States began official discussions in Saudi Arabia on ending the war in Ukraine.[17]
26 February – Denis Alexeyev, the deputy governor of Vologda Oblast, is arrested along with Kirill Bocharov, head of the Vologda Oblast representative office in Moscow, on suspicion of receiving part of a 100 million ruble ($1.1 million) bribe.[18]
27 February – A man is arrested for throwing a grenade at the entrance to the regional administration office of Samara Oblast in Samara.[19]
28 February – The FSB arrests two church officials on suspicion of plotting to kill Russian Orthodox bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, who is close to Putin.[20]
March
3 March – The FSB says it shot and killed a man who planned "terrorist attacks" on the Moscow metro and a Jewish religious institution in Moscow.[21]
31 March – Konstantin Rudnev, the founder of the Ashram Shambala sect, is arrested along with 13 of his followers in Argentina on human trafficking charges.[30]
April
1 April – President Putin orders a ban on government, telecommunications and banking sector employees from using foreign messaging applications.[31]
4 April – Three Moldovan diplomats are expelled from Russia in retaliation for Moldova expelling three Russian diplomats it accused of involvement in facilitating the escape of fugitive MP Alexandr Nesterovschi.[34]
8 April – Dual US-Russian national Ksenia Karelina, who had been imprisoned in Russia for donating to a charity providing humanitarian aid for Ukraine, is released and repatriated to the United States following a prisoner exchange in the United Arab Emirates that sees the release of Arthur Petrov, a dual German-Russian citizen arrested on suspicion of supplying manufacturers linked to the Russian military with microelectronics.[35]
9 April – The Romanian defense attaché and his deputy are expelled from Russia in retaliation for Romania expelling their Russian counterparts in March.[36]
Vadim Shamarin, the former deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, is convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment by a court martial for accepting 36 million rubles ($437,600) in bribes from a phone manufacturing plant in exchange for state contracts and “general patronage.”.[38]
5 May – Three police officers and two gunmen are killed in a shootout in Makhachkala, Dagestan.[45]
7 May – Russia signs a strategic partnership treaty with Venezuela.[46]
8 May – Alrosa announces the discovery of the largest diamond mined in Russia, a 468-carat piece named "80 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War" that was dug from the Mir mine in the Sakha Republic.[47]
13 May – A state of emergency is declared in Buryatia due to wildfires.[49]
14 May – A court in Moscow convicts Grigory Melkonyants, the co-chair of the election monitor Golos, on charges of working for an "undesirable" organisation and sentences him to five years' imprisonment.[50]
8 June – A ship towing two barges runs aground and breaks apart along the Yenisei River in Kazachinsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, spilling around 79.3 metric tons of diesel fuel and causing an oil spill reaching up to 50 kilometers along the shoreline that results in 1.2 billion rubles ($15.3 million) in environmental damage.[60][61]
9 June – The mayor of Krasnoyarsk, Vladislav Loginov, is arrested on suspicion of accepting more than 180 million rubles ($2.3 million) in bribes.[62] He resigns on 15 September.[63]
17 June – The Supreme Court of Russia orders the dissolution of the Civic Initiative party for failing to participate in elections since 2018, during which its candidates were blocked from registering by election officials.[64]
25 June – The FSB arrests two Moldovan nationals on suspicion of spying for Moldova.[65]
27 June –
A state of emergency is declared in Izhevsk following a fuel leak of undetermined origin that began on 29 May and contaminated the Starkovka River.[66]
Two Azerbaijani nationals die following a raid by Russian authorities in Yekaterinburg, triggering a diplomatic dispute between Moscow and Azerbaijan.[67]
Former deputy defense minister Timur Ivanov is convicted and sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment by the Moscow City Court for embezzling 3.9 billion rubles ($50 million) in public funds.[69]
Russia becomes the first country to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan since they retook power in 2021.[72]
7 July –
Roman Starovoit is dismissed as minister of transportation and is found dead in a suspected suicide hours later.[73]
Former deputy Rosgvardiya director Viktor Strigunov is arrested on suspicion of bribery involving the construction of a training facility in Kemerovo Oblast.[74]
8 July – A Sokol Altius military drone crashes into a dacha during a training flight in Tatarstan. No injuries are reported.[75]
11 July – Russia orders the closure of the Polish consulate in Kaliningrad in response to Poland's decision to close the Russian consulate in Kraków in May.[77]
Three people are killed in a lightning strike at a resort in Tula Oblast.[79]
16 July – The Federal Customs Service and the FSB seize 820 kilograms of cocaine valued at 12 billion rubles ($153 million) hidden under a shipment of bananas from South America.[80]
20 July –
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits off the coast of Kamchatka, triggering a 1.53m (5ft 0in) tsunami.[81][82]
A Moscow court fines bookstore Falalster and its founder for selling books deemed LGBTQA+ “propaganda.”[83]
21 July – A bus carrying mine workers falls into a ravine in Sakha Republic, killing 13 people and injuring 20 others.[84]
22 July –
Gleb Trifonov, the editor-in-chief of the Telegram-based media outlet Baza, is arrested in Moscow on bribery charges.[85]
A state of emergency is declared in Tuva due to wildfires.[86]
President Putin signs a law allowing Belarusian citizens living as permanent residents in Russia to vote in local elections and run for local office.[88]
Six people, including a child, are killed in a gas explosion at an apartment building in Saratov.[91][92]
A state of emergency is declared in parts of Voronezh Oblast due to agricultural damage caused by a storm.[93]
26 July – A fire at an electrical substation causes a major power outage in Makhachkala.[94]
27 July – The Russian airliner Nordwind launches flights to Pyongyang, marking the first commercial flights between Russia and North Korea.[95]
28 July – A cyberattack is carried out on the flag carrier Aeroflot and its subsidiaries Rossiya Airlines and Pobeda, causing disruptions to hundreds of flights.[96]
Federal agency Rospotrebnadzor blocks web service Speedtest after identifying alleged threats to the security of the public communications network and a segment of the Internet in the country.[99]
31 July – President Putin signs laws criminalizing online access and searches for online deemed as extremist, and banning the advertising of VPN services.[101]
August
1 August –
President Putin signs a law allowing police to preemptively freeze bank accounts without a court order.[102]
Authorities announce the deaths of three people suspected of plotting attacks against police officers in a shootout near Islamei, Kabardino-Balkaria.[108]
Russia ends a voluntary ban on its deployment of intermediate-range missiles, citing threats from the United States and other Western countries.[109]
President Putin signs a decree allowing Russia to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2035 compared with 2021 levels.[112]
11 August – Major General Denis Putilov, the former head of the armored vehicle service of the Central Military District, is sentenced by a court-martial to eight years' imprisonment for accepting a 10-million-ruble ($126,000) bribe over a state defense contract.[113]
25 August – Vladimir Bazarov, the deputy governor of Kursk Oblast, is arrested on suspicion of embezzling funds meant for border fortifications when he was deputy governor of Belgorod Oblast.[121]
27 August – Dmitry Naumov, the mayor of Vladimir, is arrested amid accusations of fraud and involvement in organized crime.[122]
29 August –
The first imported case of chikungunya in Russia is detected in a patient in Moscow who had traveled to Sri Lanka.[123]
A court-martial sentences General Alexander Ogloblin, the former head of communications of the Ministry of Defence, to nine years' imprisonment for taking bribes.[125]
Two people are killed in a landmine explosion in Popovka, Kursk Oblast.[126]
Uzbekistan sends a diplomatic note to Russia in protest over a video of an Uzbek taxi driver being subjected to verbal abuse in Khimki.[127]
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