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2026 in Russia

Events in the year 2026 in Russia.

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Events

January

  • 5 January – Three people are injured in a polar bear attack in Nosok, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
  • 8 January – Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher imprisoned in Russia since 2024 on charges of failing to register as a "foreign agent", is released in a prisoner swap in exchange for Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, who had been detained in France since 2025 on suspicion of involvement in cyberhacking.
  • 13 January – Russia expels a British diplomat after accusing him of spying.
  • 14 January – Two senior doctors are arrested over the suspicious deaths of nine newborn infants at a maternity hospital in Novokuznetsk from 4 to 12 January.
  • 15 January –
  • One person is killed while 17 others are injured in an explosion at a police training center in Syktyvkar.
  • Two people are killed after being buried by falling snow piles from buildings in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
  • 19 January – A court in Sochi sentences an American citizen to five years' imprisonment on charges of illegally transporting weapons after being found with a rifle aboard his yacht in June 2025.
  • 21 January – The Second Western District Military Court in Moscow sentences Uzbek national Akhmadzhon Kurbonov to life imprisonment for the assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in 2024.
  • 22 January – The FSB arrests a Russian national on suspicion of spying for Moldova.
  • 25 January – A state of emergency is declared in Murmansk Oblast due to power outages caused by heavy snowstorms.
  • 28 January –
  • The Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka erupts.
  • Alexander Vainberg resigns from the Federation Council to undertake military service in Ukraine.

February

  • 2 February – A bus collides with a truck in Krasnoyarsk, killing five people and injuring six others.
  • 3 February – Myanmar and Russia sign a five-year military cooperation agreement.
  • 4 February – Six people are injured in a combined arson and hammer attack by a student inside a school in Krasnoyarsk Krai.
  • 5 February – Russia expels a German diplomat in retaliation for the expulsion of a Russian diplomat by Germany for spying in January.
  • 6 February – Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy head of the GRU, is shot and severely injured by an unidentified gunman in Moscow.
  • 7 February – Four Indian students are injured in a knife attack at the dormitory of the Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa.
  • 10 February – Roskomnadzor announces phased restrictions on Telegram on charges of violating laws requiring data on Russian users to be stored inside the country and the removal of usage for "criminal and terrorist purposes".
  • 11 February –
  • One person is killed in a shooting at a technical college in Anapa, Krasnodar Krai.
  • President Putin issues a decree establishing a general staff for the National Guard of Russia.
  • 12 February –
  • The government blocks access to WhatsApp in Russia on charges of violating domestic laws.
  • The deputy governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Andrei Faleychik, is arrested on suspicion of bribery.
  • 17 February –
  • The International Paralympic Committee allows Russian paralympians to compete under their national flag for the first time since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022.
  • Three people are killed in an explosion at a military police facility in Sertolovo, Leningrad Oblast.
  • 19 February – Amina Shafikova, the culture minister of Bashkortostan, is arrested on suspicion of corruption.
  • 20 February – A tour bus carrying Chinese nationals falls through an ice crevasse along Lake Baikal, killing eight people.
  • 23 February - Hungary and Slovakia block the European Union’s 20th sanctions package against Russia, preventing its adoption ahead of the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
  • 24 February – A police officer and a bomber are killed in a bomb attack near Moscow Savyolovsky railway station.
  • 27 February – Alexei Botvin, the mayor of Bodaybo, Irkutsk Oblast is arrested on charges of abuse of power over the neglect of the town's heating and water facilities.

March

  • 1 March – Police in Moscow detain Iranian nationals who celebrated the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in public.
  • 3 March – A court in Saint Petersburg designates the LGBT rights group Coming Out an "extremist organization".
  • 4 March – Russia releases two dual Hungarian-Ukrainian nationals who had been captured while fighting for Ukraine following negotiations between president Putin and Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó.
  • 5 March – Former deputy defense minister Ruslan Tsalikov is arrested on charges of corruption.
  • 6–15 March – The 2026 Winter Paralympics in Italy sees Russian athletes compete under the Russian flag for the first time in an Olympic-level event since 2014.
  • 9 March – President Putin signs a law prohibiting the extradition of foreign nationals and stateless persons who had undegone combat experience while serving in the Russian military.
  • 12 March – The Second Western District Military Court in Moscow sentences 19 people to sentences ranging up to life imprisonment for their role in carrying out the Crocus City Hall attack in 2024.
  • 13 March –
  • The Justice Ministry designates Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, as a "foreign agent".
  • The United States imposes a month-long suspension on sanctions against Russian oil that is currently in transit amid an increase in oil prices caused by the 2026 Iran war.
  • 15 March – Mr Nobody Against Putin, a Netflix documentary on the Russo-Ukrainian war directed by Pavel Talankin, wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2026 Oscars.
  • 17 March
  • Yevgeny Filippov, the health minister of Krasnodar Krai, is arrested on charges of fraud and abuse of power.
  • Ilya Remeslo, a prominent pro-Kremlin blogger, publishes a post on his Telegram channel, where he openly denounces Putin and the Russo-Ukrainian war, causing confusion and shock among audience.
  • 18 March –
  • A court in Poland approves the extradition of Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin to Ukraine, where he is wanted on charges of damaging the Myrmēkion site in Russian-occupied Crimea.
  • MP Andrey Svintsov is expelled from the LDPR over his comments on internet restrictions in Russia.
  • 20 March – The United States lifts sanctions on several Russian nationals and entities imposed in 2023 for helping evade sanctions on Russia.
  • 27 March – Russia designates filmmaker and teacher Pavel Talankin, the co-director and subject of the 2025 documentary film Mr Nobody Against Putin, as a foreign agent after authorities accuse him of spreading disinformation about the government and opposing the war in Ukraine.

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