2024 in Russia

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Events in the year 2024 in Russia.

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February

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May

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President Putin with Shoigu, Gerasimov, Belousov, Yevkurov and commanders of Russia's military districts on 15 May 2024

June

July

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Moscow, 9 July 2024

August

September

  • 2 September –
    • Major General Valery Mumindzhanov, the deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District, is arrested on suspicion of accepting more than 20 million rubles in bribes for the supply of military uniforms when he was head of the Defense Ministry’s provisions department.[164]
    • President Putin arrives in Mongolia to discuss a China–Russia gas pipeline meant to recoup Russian losses from Western sanctions, despite Ukraine's urges for Mongolia to arrest Putin under his International Criminal Court warrant.[165]
  • 8 September – 2024 Russian elections[166]
  • 9 September – An Aviatik Alliance Aleks-251 aircraft crashes during a test flight near Vatulino airfield in Ruza, Moscow Oblast, killing both pilots.[167]
  • 10 September – One person is killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in Ramenskoye, Moscow Oblast, which occurs during a massive drone attack involving 144 drones across nine regions of western Russia.[168]
  • 12 September – President Putin warns that Ukrainian use of NATO weapons to strike deep into Russian territory indicates NATO's formal entry into war against Russia, due to the programming of these weapons by NATO personnel representing a "direct confrontation".[169]
  • 13 September –
    • Russia revokes the accreditation of six British diplomats, accusing them of spying.[170]
    • Reuters reports that Russia has begun production of thousands of Garpiya-A1 long-range combat drones used against Ukrainian civilian and military targets, that incorporate engines, parts, and technology from China.[171]
  • 14 September – Russia says that the approval of Ukrainian use of long-range weapons to strike inside Russia will result in an "uncontrolled escalation" with the West, and the "destruction" of Kyiv.[172]
  • 16 September –
  • 17 September – Meta Platforms announces a ban on Russian state media outlets including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, citing the use of deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations and evade detection.[175]
  • 18 September –
    • The FSB claims to have dismantled an Islamist-inspired "female terrorist cell" in Tatarstan.[176]
    • Two people are killed in a shooting outside the offices of the online retailer Wildberries in Moscow during a dispute over the company's ownership.[177]
  • 23 September – The FSB arrests 15 people on suspicion of promoting radical Islamist ideology in Baksansky District, Kabardino-Balkaria.[178]
  • 25 September – President Putin revises Russia's nuclear weapons policy to allow their usage in response to an attack from a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear-armed one.[179]
  • 27 September – Thirteen people are killed and 23 others are injured in the explosion of a gas station in Makhachkala, Dagestan.[180]
  • 30 September – Alexander Permyakov, a former pro-Russian separatist fighter from eastern Ukraine, is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the attempted assassination of nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in 2023.[181]

October

  • 12 October – Four people are killed in an explosion at a gas station in Grozny, Chechnya.[182]
  • 14 October – A court in Moscow sentences French researcher Laurent Vinatier to three years' imprisonment for breaking the foreign agents law.[183]
  • 15 October – Three people are injured in a car bombing in Moscow.[184]
  • 18 October – The cargo ship Grigory Lotsov capsizes off the coast of Korsakovsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, leaving two crew members dead and two others missing. Three remaining crew are rescued.[185]
  • 22–24 October – The 16th BRICS summit is held in Kazan.[186]
  • 22 October – A ban on the wearing of hijabs and other religious clothing in schools is introduced in Vladimir Oblast.[187]
  • 24 October –
    • Deputy energy minister Sergei Mochalnikov and his predecessor Anatoly Yanovsky are arrested on suspicion of fraud and corruption in the coal industry.[188]
    • Riots against members of the Romani community in Korkino, Chelyabinsk Oblast following the murder of a woman, leading to at least 40 arrests.[189]
  • 25 October –
    • The Central Bank of Russia raises interest rates to 21%, the highest since 2003, citing inflation and the economic effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[190]
    • Four people are injured in a knife attack at a supermarket in Saint Petersburg. The suspect is arrested.[191]
  • 26 October –
  • 29 October – A drone attack is reported for the first time in Chechnya since the invasion of Ukraine, causing a fire at the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes.[194]
  • 31 October –
    • A court issues a "symbolic" fine to Google of 2 undecillion rubles (equivalent to about $20 decillion USD, and more money than there is in the entire world), for blocking state media on YouTube.[195][196][197]
    • The Constitutional Court lifts the statute of limitations in corruption cases involving the state seizure of assets but stops short of applying the conditions to cases of “unlawful privatization” during the 1990s.[198]
    • Five people are killed in a gas explosion at an apartment building in Cherkessk, Karachay-Cherkessia.[199]

November

  • 1 November – A court in Vladivostok convicts former US consulate employee Robert Shonov of cooperating with a foreign state and sentences him to more than four years' imprisonment.[200]
  • 4 November –
  • 5 November – Vladimir Uyba resigns as head of the Komi Republic and is replaced by Rostislav Goldstein.[203]
  • 6 November –
    • A Ukrainian drone attack is recorded in Dagestan for the first time, with strikes reported on the garrison of the Russian Navy's Caspian Flotilla in Kaspiysk. One person is injured.[204]
    • The Federation Council ratifies the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership treaty providing strengthened military cooperation with North Korea.[205]
  • 12 November – The State Duma votes unanimously to ban 'Childfree Propaganda’ to boost birthrates in Russia.[206]
  • 14 November – The Gulag History Museum in Moscow is ordered closed due to "fire safety" violations amid a crackdown on dissent by authorities.[207]
  • 23 November – Putin signs into law a bill banning "childfree propaganda" and the adoption of Russian children to countries allowing gender transitioning.[208]
  • 26 November – A British diplomat is expelled from Russia on suspicion of espionage.[209]
  • 27 November – Russia expels two journalists of the German broadcaster ARD in retaliation for the expulsion of two journalists working for Channel One Russia in Germany and the reported shutdown of its bureau in Berlin.[210]

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