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2021 in Russia

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Events in the year 2021 in the Russian Federation.

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Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in Russia

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  • The construction Murmansk Commercial Sea Port is planned to be completed.[1]
  • The launch of mass production of the Russian medium-haul passenger airliner MC-21 is planned.[2]
  • Commissioning of the 2nd power unit at Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant-2 with a VVER-1200 reactor.[3]

January - March

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Protests in Saint Petersburg
  • 9 January – Norilsk avalanche: three dead, one in serious condition, and six missing in an avalanche in Norilsk which buried houses. An event like this has never happened in Norilsk, despite avalanches being common in the region, this was the first event of such magnitude in terms of fatalities and missing persons.[4]
  • 11 January – In Moscow, four soldiers are killed after a truck crashes into the convoy of buses they are in. 40 other soldiers were reported to be injured.[5]
  • 12 January – 2021 Yekaterinburg fire [ru]: eight people die in an apartment fire in Yekaterinburg. It is reported that the victims succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning, rather than the flames. It is reported that among the eight fatalities, there was a child[6] The cause of the fire is under investigation, and it is thought that the fire was accidental.[7]
  • 23 January – Protests against the arrest of Alexei Navalny begin throughout Russia.[8]
  • 22 February – In ice hockey, New York Rangers winger and Kremlin critic Artemi Panarin takes a personal leave of absence after the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda publishes a story in which former Kontinental Hockey League coach Andrei Nazarov accuses him of sexually assaulting a 18-year old Latvian woman in Riga.[9]

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October to December

  • 10 October – 2021 Menzelinsk parachute Let L-410UVP-E crash. 16 of the 22 people on board were killed.
  • 15 October–14 November – 2021 Russian Census
  • 25 November – 51 people killed in the Listvyazhnaya mine disaster.[19]
  • 7 December – Gunman opens fire in Moscow services center, kills 2 people and injures 4.[20]
  • 13 December - Russia's domestic intelligence service said it had arrested 106 supporters of what it called a Ukrainian neo-Nazi youth group planning attacks and mass murders. The Federal Security Service (FSB) said the "Maniacs Cult of Murder" group had been set up by a Ukrainian under the patronage of Ukraine's intelligence services. The FSB, in its statement, said it had made detentions in 37 of Russia's more than 80 regions and that two of the detainees had planned to attack educational institutions.[21]
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  • 20 June – Anatoly Lysenko, television figure, journalist and producer (b. 1937)

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