Bryansk is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Desna River, 379 kilometers (235 mi) southwest of Moscow. It has a population of 379,152 at the 2021 census.
Krasnogorsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. The name is generally derived from or related to the collocation "krasnaya gora", meaning roughly "(a) red/beautiful mountain(s)/hill(s)".
Karachev is an ancient town and the administrative center of Karachevsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Population: 17,449 (2021 Census); 19,715 (2010 Census); 20,175 (2002 Census); 22,446 (1989 Soviet census).
Brasovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,185 square kilometers (458 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality of Lokot. Population: 21,471 (2010 Census); 24,972 ; 26,873 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Lokot accounts for 46.7% of the district's total population.
Krasnogorsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,081 square kilometers (417 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality of Krasnaya Gora. Population: 10,250 (2021 Census); 13,208 (2010 Census); 16,863 ; 2,326 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Krasnaya Gora accounts for 53.7% of the district's total population.
Navlinsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,012 square kilometers (777 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality of Navlya. Population:26,906 (2021 Census); 28,341 (2010 Census); 29,783 ; 32,189 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Navlya accounts for 57.7% of the district's total population.
Katerina Vladimirovna Gordeeva is a Russian journalist, documentary writer and author. She is most known for the work involved with Russia's NTV Documentary films from 2003 until 2012. Since 2005, she has directed and released several documentaries. Gordeeva's documentaries cover a list of different topics including health, family and social issues. Her first documentary Ruble's Wives was released in 2005.
The Kerch Polytechnic College massacre was a school shooting and bomb attack that occurred in Kerch, Crimea, on 17 October 2018, when 18-year-old student Vladislav Roslyakov killed 20 people and wounded 67 others before subsequently committing suicide. It was the deadliest school shooting in the former Soviet Union since the 2004 Beslan school siege.
Bolshoye Polpino is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of oblast significance of Bryansk of Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Population: 5,859 (2021 Census); 6,356 (2010 Census); 4,613 (2002 Census); 6,374 (1989 Soviet census).
Alexander Vasilyevich Bogomaz is a Russian politician who has been serving as the governor of Bryansk Oblast since 2015.
Ivan Yurievich Zhdanov is a Russian politician and lawyer. He was the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and is a member of the Central Council of the Russia of the Future political party.
On 11 May 2021, a school shooting and bomb attack occurred in Kazan, Tatarstan, in the western part of Russia. Nine people were murdered, all of them by gunfire, and 23 others were injured. The 19-year-old shooter, Ilnaz Galyaviev, was identified as a former student. He pleaded guilty to the murder of two or more persons on 12 May and was sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2023.
On 20 September 2021, a mass shooting occurred at Perm State University, in the city of Perm, Perm Krai, Russia. Six people were killed and 47 others were injured. The attacker, identified as 18-year-old Timur Bekmansurov, was arrested after being wounded by police.
On 26 April 2022, three people were killed in a school shooting at a kindergarten in Veshkayma, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia.
A series of Molotov cocktail arson attacks and shootings took place in Russian military commissariat registration and enlistment offices following the start of the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Other governmental buildings were also attacked in multiple regions of Russia. Part of the Russian partisan and anti-war movements, the attacks were spurred by several factors, including the invasion of Ukraine, the deployment of Russian conscripts to the front line, the start of spring conscription, and rumors about possible mobilization in the country, which were later found to be true.
On 26 September 2022, a mass shooting occurred at a school in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, in west-central Russia. Eighteen people were killed and twenty-three others were wounded before the gunman, identified as Artyom Kazantsev, committed suicide.
The Ust-Ilimsk military commissariat shooting occurred on 26 September 2022, when 25-year-old local resident Ruslan Zinin wounded the military commissar Alexander Eliseev by shooting him with a sawed-off shotgun, after which he was detained.
In April 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an anti-war drawing by Maria Moskalyova, a sixth-grader in the Russian town of Yefremov, led to the political persecution of the girl and her single father Aleksey Moskalyov. The father was charged with discrediting the Russian military, and the girl was separated from her father and sent to a local orphanage. On 28 March 2023, a Russian court sentenced Aleksey to two years in prison. This is the first time in the Russian Federation that a court, after imprisoning a parent for political reasons, left the child without a guardian.
On 30 June 2023, a man shot and killed two people and injured another at the Chișinău International Airport in Moldova after he was denied entry into the country. The perpetrator was then shot and apprehended by security forces and died of his injuries three days later.
