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Aeroflot Flight 1492 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Moscow–Sheremetyevo to Murmansk, Russia.On 5 May 2019, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft operating the flight was climbing out when it was struck by lightning.
Soviet militsiya officer's cap cockade (service/parade version).. The name militsiya as applied to police forces originates from a Russian Provisional Government decree dated April 17, 1917, and from early Soviet history: both the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks intended to associate their new law-enforcement authority with the self-organisation of the people and to distinguish it ...
10 June – A gunman, 49-year-old Igor Zenkov, kills four people before being shot dead by local police and the National Guard during a special operation in the township of Kratovo, Moscow Oblast. [10] [11] 17 June – 2 July – 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup [12] 22–29 June – Moscow International Film Festival [13]
On 15 August 2019, the Airbus A321 operating the flight carried 226 passengers and seven crew. The flight suffered a bird strike after taking off from Zhukovsky and crash landed in a cornfield, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) away from the airport. All on board survived; 74 people sustained injuries, but none were severe.
This is a list of Russian accidents that befell the Russian Armed Forces after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Accidents have variously been attributed to cutbacks in spending on equipment, the lack of maintenance of hardware, and the theft of parts for sale to criminal gangs due to low pay in the services. [1]
35 years on, house librarian Tizane Navea-Rogers revisits the bloodless Velvet Revolution that changed the face of a nation
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "1989 in Russia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
2019 Moscow protests. February – The Russian military launches a nationwide tour to parade war trophies from its intervention in the Syrian civil war. [1]14 February – Michael Calvey, the founder of the Moscow-based private equity firm Baring Vostok Capital Partners, was arrested on suspicion of alleged embezzlement.