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2024 in Russia

Events in the year 2024 in Russia.

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Ongoing

Events

January

February

March

April

  • 1 April – A train collides with a bus at a level-crossing in Yaroslavl Oblast, killing eight people.
  • 4 April – The governor of Murmansk Oblast, Andrey Chibis, is severely wounded after being stabbed while meeting with constituents in Apatity. The assailant is reported to be a disgruntled 42-year old local railway worker.
  • 5 April – Orsk Dam collapse: A dam failure in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast caused by melting snow results in a flood that inundates 10,000 homes and displaces 10,000 people. Over the succeeding days, floods also caused by the spring thaw occur in Tyumen, Tomsk and Kurgan Oblasts.
  • 8 April – One person is killed and five others are injured after a bridge collapses into a railway in Vyazma, Smolensk Oblast.
  • 9 April – Four people are sentenced to varying prison terms including life imprisonment for the ritual killings of three people in the Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast and Moscow Oblast in 2016.
  • 11 April –
  • Two suspected militants are killed in a counterterrorism operation outside Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria.
  • Russia warns its citizens against travelling to the Middle East amid tensions between Iran and Israel.
  • 17 April – Russia begins the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from Nagorno-Karabakh.
  • 19 April – A Russian Air Force Tu-22M3 is shot down in Russian airspace over Stavropol Krai after launching missiles at targets in Ukraine.
  • 22 April:
  • Two police officers are killed and a third is injured following a gun attack in Karachaevsk, Karachay-Cherkessia.
  • Three people are killed in a fire at a machine-building plant in Voronezh.
  • 23 April – Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov is arrested on suspicion of bribery.
  • 24 April – Russia vetoes a UN Security Council resolution reaffirming a ban on an arms race in outer space under the provisions of the Outer Space Treaty.
  • 27 April – Authorities arrest a fifth suspect for the Crocus City Hall attack in March, a Tajik man accused of providing the attackers with financing and communication.
  • 28 April – Two police officers are killed and four more injured during a mass shooting at a checkpoint in Karachay-Cherkessia. The five attackers, who are suspected of involvement in the 22 April attack, are also killed in the ensuing shootout.

May

June

July

August

  • 1 August –
  • 2024 American–Russian prisoner exchange: Twenty-six individuals are released in Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Turkey as part of a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia.
  • Ten people are killed after an apartment block collapses due to a gas explosion in Nizhny Tagil.
  • 2 August – Senator Dmitry Savelyev is arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a business associate in 2023.
  • 4 August – A state of emergency is declared in Tuva due to wildfires.
  • 5 August – Vyacheslav Akhmedov, head of the military-themed Patriot Park in Moscow and defence ministry official Major General Vladimir Shesterov are arrested on charges of embezzling the venue's funds.
  • 6 August–ongoing – Russia claims that Ukrainian forces have made an incursion into Kursk Oblast, prompting a declaration of a state of emergency in the region on 7 August.
  • 7 August – Ksenia Karelina pleads guilty in a Yekaterinburg court to a charge of treason.
  • 8 August – YouTube is reportedly blocked and slowed down across Russia following the website's blocking of several channels that expressed support for the Russo-Ukrainian war.
  • 14 August – A state of emergency is declared in Belgorod Oblast due to an extension of the Ukrainian incursion in neighboring Kursk Oblast.
  • 15 August –
  • A Tu-22M3 bomber of the Russian Air Force crashes in Irkutsk Oblast, killing one crew member and injuring the other three crew.
  • The United Kingdom says that Ukraine can use British weaponry, including Challenger 2 tanks, for its military operations inside Russia.
  • 16 August –
  • An “equipment failure” at the Primorskaya thermal power plant results in a major power outage that affects Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais.
  • Russia accuses the United States and European nations of directly helping Ukraine in its incursion on Kursk Oblast by planning operations and providing military support, and states that their involvement "created all the prerequisites for Ukraine to lose its sovereignty and lose part of its territories".
  • 17 August – 2024 Kamchatka Krai earthquake: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off the eastern coast of Kamchatka Krai with a tsunami warning being issued.
  • 18 August – The Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka Krai and Ebeko in the Kuril Islands erupt.
  • 19 August – President Putin signs a decree making it easier for foreign nationals who support "traditional values" and "oppose neoliberalism" to seek asylum in Russia.
  • 21 August – Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin states that Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks on the Russian capital, and claims that all drones were taken down without casualties or damage based on preliminary information.
  • 23 August –
  • Surovikino penal colony hostage crisis: four Islamic State inmates at a prison in Surovikino, Volgograd Oblast seize control of the facility and take hostages, killing thirteen people including five prison employees before being killed by security forces.
  • A court in Armavir, Krasnodar Krai, sentences five men to up to nine years' imprisonment for participating in the 2023 antisemitic riots in the North Caucasus at Uytash Airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan.
  • 24 August – Arrest and indictment of Pavel Durov: The owner and founder of the Telegram and VK social networks Pavel Durov is arrested at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in France shortly after arriving from Azerbaijan, in connection with alleged illegal activity on his Telegram app.
  • 28 August –
  • Six suspected members of an "international terrorist organisation" are arrested by the FSB in Ingushetia on suspicion of plotting attacks.
  • A drone attack is reported in Kirov Oblast for the first time since the start of the war against Ukraine, causing a fire at an oil refiner in Kotelnich.
  • 31 August – 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash: A tourist Mi-8T helicopter crashes near the Vachkazhets volcano in Kamchatka Krai, killing all 22 people on board. The wreckage is discovered on 1 September.

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.
  • 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.
  • 8 September – 2024 Russian elections
  • 9 September – An Aviatik Alliance Aleks-251 aircraft crashes during a test flight near Vatulino airfield in Ruza, Moscow Oblast, killing both pilots.
  • 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.
  • 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".
  • 13 September –
  • Russia revokes the accreditation of six British diplomats, accusing them of spying.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 16 September –
  • Médecins Sans Frontières shuts down its operations in Russia after being deregistered by the Ministry of Justice.
  • Four people, including three children, are injured in a hammer attack inside a school in Chelyabinsk. The suspect, a 13-year old student, is arrested.
  • 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.
  • 18 September –
  • The FSB claims to have dismantled an Islamist-inspired "female terrorist cell" in Tatarstan.
  • 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.
  • 23 September – The FSB arrests 15 people on suspicion of promoting radical Islamist ideology in Baksansky District, Kabardino-Balkaria.
  • 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.
  • 27 September – Thirteen people are killed and 23 others are injured in the explosion of a gas station in Makhachkala, Dagestan.
  • 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.

October

  • 12 October – Four people are killed in an explosion at a gas station in Grozny, Chechnya.
  • 14 October – A court in Moscow sentences French researcher Laurent Vinatier to three years' imprisonment for breaking the foreign agents law.
  • 15 October – Three people are injured in a car bombing in Moscow.
  • 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.
  • 22–24 October – The 16th BRICS summit is held in Kazan.
  • 22 October – A ban on the wearing of hijabs and other religious clothing in schools is introduced in Vladimir Oblast.
  • 24 October –
  • Deputy energy minister Sergei Mochalnikov and his predecessor Anatoly Yanovsky are arrested on suspicion of fraud and corruption in the coal industry.
  • Riots against members of the Romani community in Korkino, Chelyabinsk Oblast following the murder of a woman, leading to at least 40 arrests.
  • 25 October –
  • The Central Bank of Russia raises interest rates to 21%, the highest since 2003, citing inflation and the economic effects of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
  • Four people are injured in a knife attack at a supermarket in Saint Petersburg. The suspect is arrested.
  • 26 October –
  • Six inmates escape from a prison in Lipetsk Oblast.
  • A Mil Mi-2 ambulance helicopter crashes into a forest near Beleenki, Kirov Oblast, killing all four people on board.
  • 29 October – A drone attack is reported for the first time in Chechnya since the start of Russo-Ukrainian war, causing a fire at the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Five people are killed in a gas explosion at an apartment building in Cherkessk, Karachay-Cherkessia.

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.
  • 4 November –
  • Maksim Yegorov and Vasily Golubev resign from their positions as the respective governors of Tambov and Rostov Oblasts. They are replaced by Yevgeny Pervyshov and Yury Slyusar respectively.
  • Ukraine announces its first combat engagements with North Korean soldiers in Kursk Oblast.
  • 5 November – Vladimir Uyba resigns as head of the Komi Republic and is replaced by Rostislav Goldstein.
  • 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.
  • The Federation Council ratifies the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership treaty providing strengthened military cooperation with North Korea.
  • 12 November – Ukrainian-born Russian pediatrician was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison after her patient's mother reported her to the police for allegedly making pro-Ukrainian comments.
  • 12 November – The State Duma votes unanimously to ban 'Childfree Propaganda’ to boost birthrates in Russia.
  • 14 November – The Gulag History Museum in Moscow is ordered closed due to "fire safety" violations amid a crackdown on dissent by authorities.
  • 23 November – Putin signs into law a bill banning "childfree propaganda" and the adoption of Russian children to countries allowing gender transitioning.
  • 26 November – A British diplomat is expelled from Russia on suspicion of espionage.
  • 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.

December

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