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Between November 2017 and 26 February 2018, Russia conducted four tests of the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, launched from other test sites. [4] [5] According to the United States intelligence community, only the flight test in November 2017 from Pankovo test site was moderately successful with all of the others ending in failure.
v. t. e. In September and October 1993, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country's parliament. Yeltsin performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament and instituting a presidential rule by decree system. The crisis ended with Yeltsin using military ...
Fires on a combined heat and power plant in Kyiv after Russian missile strikes on 10 October 2022. On 10 October 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine with a wave of 84 cruise missiles and 24 suicide drones. Russian missiles struck 14 regions of Ukraine, with the capital Kyiv being the most targeted.
Victory Day[a 1] is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time). [a] The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 ...
The ticket was purchased in Barcelona. [80] €48.6 million (US$53.2 million) was the largest jackpot in Germany 's Lotto 6 aus 49, won on 3 January 2024 by one ticket. £66.1 million (US$96 million) was the largest jackpot in the United Kingdom 's Lotto, won on 9 January 2016 by two tickets. CHF 70.1 million was the largest jackpot in ...
As a result, throughout Russia, many archives detailing killings, persecution and other such acts committed by the Soviet authorities have become increasingly off-limits. The role of the security services seems especially delicate, perhaps because Putin is a former KGB agent who headed the agency's successor, the FSB, in the late 1990s. [304]
109,190,337. 67.88%. Results by federal subject. Referendum ballot. A constitutional referendum was held in Russia between 25 June and 1 July 2020. [1][2] President Vladimir Putin proposed the referendum during his address to the Federal Assembly on 15 January 2020. [3] The draft amendments to the constitution were submitted to a referendum in ...
Russia is the world's thirteenth-largest exporter and the 21st-largest importer. [373] [374] It relies heavily on revenues from oil and gas-related taxes and export tariffs, which accounted for 45% of Russia's federal budget revenues in January 2022, [375] and up to 60% of its exports in 2019. [376]