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* Background: In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. - CIA World Factbook | * Background: In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Background: Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. - CIA World Factbook | * Background: Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Branches: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Forces (SV), Aerospace Forces (VKS), Navy (VMF); separate or independent troop branches include the Airborne Forces (VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (RVSN; commonly to as Strategic Rocket Forces), Special Operations Forces, and Unmanned Systems Forces ; ; Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya); ; Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2025) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Capital: Moscow - CIA World Factbook | * Capital: Moscow - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012) - CIA World Factbook | * Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012) - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast - CIA World Factbook | * Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Equipment: the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported military hardware from external suppliers such as Iran and North Korea to support its war on Ukraine; the Russian defense industry is capable of producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of military hardware (2025) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) - CIA World Factbook | * Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Expenditures: 7% of GDP (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Government type: semi-presidential federation - CIA World Factbook | * Government type: semi-presidential federation - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) - CIA World Factbook | * Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) - CIA World Factbook | * Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts - CIA World Factbook | * Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Life expectancy: 72.3 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Literacy: 99.9% (2021 est.) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean - CIA World Factbook | * Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Major urban areas: 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Median age: 42.3 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber - CIA World Factbook | * Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Personnel: estimated 1.1-1.2 million active Armed Forces; estimated 350,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2025) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Population: 140,134,279 (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook | |||
* Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) - CIA World Factbook | * Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions - CIA World Factbook | * Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions - CIA World Factbook | ||
* Urbanization: 75.3% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook | |||
[[Category:Timelines]] | [[Category:Timelines]] | ||
Revision as of 17:44, 25 August 2026
Dated events for Russia, generated from the archive. Each line is one headline as it was recorded.
2026-08-25
- The Kremlin called reports of a new mobilization in Russia 'informational hoaxes'. - meduza
2026-08-24
- A new drone was found in Romania after Russia's attack on Ukraine - ukrinform
- Video: Russia launches rocket into space with military satellite - aljazeera
2026-08-14
- Russia dismisses idea of Black Sea ceasefire - Reuters
2026-06-29
- Russia is burning, but don’t expect Putin to blink - CNN
2026-06-15
- Russia’s slow defeat – and Australia’s hard lesson - Lowy Institute
2026-06-06
- Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - ynet.co.il
2026-06-03
- Dispatch from Kyiv: Russia is more vulnerable than it might seem - Atlantic Council
2026-05-11
- Things are not going so well for Russia - Al Jazeera
2026-05-01
- Recalling Damascus on the Hudson - The Broadsheet
2026-04-26
- Damascus, Scatter Brain, and New Faces - The Trek
2026-04-17
- Damascus, MD - gnews
2026-04-15
- Discover - Twin Cities PBS
2026-04-14
- The Sea of Azov: Ukraine’s loss but hardly Russia’s gain - Al Jazeera
2026-03-25
- Acknowledgments - Pew Research Center
- The Choking of Hormuz - The New York Times
2026-03-06
- The Iran War Heralds Russia’s Further Weakening - Manara Magazine
2026-03-05
- Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? - Arab Center Washington DC
2026-02-27
- Shipping Tribune - shippingtribune.com
2026-02-10
- Cutting Through the Fog of War (and Peace) in Syria - The Washington Institute
2026-01-31
- Upcoming Trilateral Naval Exercise by Iran, China, and Russia - WANA News Agency
2026-01-23
- Russia’s Wary Embrace of Trump’s Transatlantic Disruption - Council on Foreign Relations
2026-01-15
- Statement from Spain and France on Turkey. - haber7.com
2025-12-29
- The Strange Fear of Russia - Geopolitical Futures
2025-12-28
- Iran Says It Launched Three Satellites Into Space From Russia - Bloomberg.com
2025-12-12
- Msayleh - Human Rights Watch
2025-12-08
- Baraa in Syria - Al Jazeera
- Fall of Assad, Rise of Realism: What Holds Russia and Iran Together - ISPI
- Zelenskyy again rules out handing over territory to Russia - NBC News
2025-11-29
- Russia Bombards Ukraine for Nearly 10 Hours in a Deadly Assault - The New York Times
2025-11-26
- Top U.S. Negotiator Warned Europeans That Russia Is Stockpiling Missiles - The New York Times
2025-11-21
- Russia Eyes Return to Southern Syria - Foundation for Defense of Democracies - gnews
2025-11-19
- Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) - Iran Watch
2025-11-18
- Hamas - Middle East Institute
2025-10-26
- Javad Naeimi: Mossad Spy or a Victim? - WANA News Agency
2025-10-21
- Post-Assad pragmatism: The new logic of Russia-Syria relations - The New Arab
- Russia/Ukraine: Blackout in Chernihiv exposes Russia’s unlawful attacks on civilian infrastructure - Amnesty International
2025-10-15
- Syria’s New Leaders Are Talking to a Former Enemy: Russia - The New York Times
2025-10-13
- Poor Syria - Arab American Institute
2025-10-11
- Russia-Ukraine war news: Russia strikes Kyiv, targeting power grid, causing power outage for 800K - ABC7 Bay Area
2025-10-08
- Why Merkel's Ukraine remarks pleased Russia, angered Poland - DW.com
2025-10-01
- Focus on the Druze - Jewish Policy Center
- Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Arab Center Washington DC
2025-09-26
- Israel - General Debate
2025-09-24
- Returning to Yarmouk - Jewish Currents
- Russia/Ukraine Sanctions Update - Month of September 2025 - Mayer Brown
2025-09-18
- China and Russia: Exploring Ties Between Two Authoritarian Powers - Council on Foreign Relations
2025-09-17
- Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation - Transnational Institute
- History of the Kaaba - TRT World
2025-09-09
- Russia/Ukraine: Conflict Moving Towards Escalation, Not Resolution - Teneo
2025-09-05
- Discontent Amid Despair - Riddle Russia
2025-09-01
- Russia, China, Pakistan defy snapback: Iranian Diplomat - Armenpress
2025-08-31
- Ukraine planning new strikes deep inside Russia, says Zelenskyy - Al Jazeera
2025-08-29
- Russia hits out at Macron for calling Putin an 'ogre' - Le Monde.fr
2025-08-28
- Americans Widely Pessimistic About Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal - Gallup News
- Russia advances in Kupiansk, rejects US push for Zelenskyy-Putin summit - Al Jazeera
- Understanding the ‘China Factor’ in the Russia-Ukraine War - PeaceRep
2025-08-26
- Despite huge manpower losses, how is Russia replenishing its military? - Al Jazeera
- Ukraine, Land Swaps, and Patriotic Assassination - Cato Institute
2025-08-25
- Talking and Fighting Intersect in Gaza - The Soufan Center
- Area: 17,098,242 sq km - CIA World Factbook
- Background: Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy emerged from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and gradually conquered and absorbed surrounding principalities. - CIA World Factbook
- Background: In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. - CIA World Factbook
- Background: Under PETER I (1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. - CIA World Factbook
- Branches: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: Ground Forces (SV), Aerospace Forces (VKS), Navy (VMF); separate or independent troop branches include the Airborne Forces (VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (RVSN; commonly to as Strategic Rocket Forces), Special Operations Forces, and Unmanned Systems Forces ; ; Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (FSVNG, National Guard, Russian Guard, or Rosgvardiya); ; Federal Security Services (FSB): Federal Border Guard Service (includes land and maritime forces) (2025) - CIA World Factbook
- Capital: Moscow - CIA World Factbook
- Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012) - CIA World Factbook
- Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast - CIA World Factbook
- Equipment: the Russian Federation's military and paramilitary services are equipped with domestically produced weapons systems, although in recent years Russia has imported military hardware from external suppliers such as Iran and North Korea to support its war on Ukraine; the Russian defense industry is capable of producing a full range of advanced air, land, missile, and naval systems; Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of military hardware (2025) - CIA World Factbook
- Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.) - CIA World Factbook
- Expenditures: 7% of GDP (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
- Government type: semi-presidential federation - CIA World Factbook
- Head of government: Premier Mikhail Vladimirovich MISHUSTIN (since 16 January 2020) - CIA World Factbook
- Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% (2010 est.) - CIA World Factbook
- Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts - CIA World Factbook
- Life expectancy: 72.3 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
- Literacy: 99.9% (2021 est.) - CIA World Factbook
- Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Eastern Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean - CIA World Factbook
- Major urban areas: 12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023) - CIA World Factbook
- Median age: 42.3 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
- Natural resources: wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber - CIA World Factbook
- Personnel: estimated 1.1-1.2 million active Armed Forces; estimated 350,000 Federal National Guard Troops (2025) - CIA World Factbook
- Population: 140,134,279 (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
- Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) - CIA World Factbook
- Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions - CIA World Factbook
- Urbanization: 75.3% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook
