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#Russia

Events indexed under #Russia — 76 entries in the record.

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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-11-02X Suspends About Two Dozen Russia-Tied Storm-1516 Accounts Before Election Day; Paid Amplifiers With 2.4 Million Followers Remain 1 src
X · James Talarico · Sherrod Brown
confirmed
2026-10-28OFAC Lists a Statement of Licensing Policy on Purchasing Blocked Vessels; Text Not Yet Read 3 srcreported
2026-10-21Himes and Warner Say Classified Report Shows Russia Opposes Pro-Ukraine Candidates, Prepare for Trump to Claim Foreign Meddling 2 src
Mark Warner · Jay Clayton · Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-10-20Russian Operation Storm-1516 Seeds AI Deepfake Videos on X Fabricating Abuse Claim Against Texas Senate Candidate Talarico 9 src
James Talarico · Graphika · X
confirmed
2026-10-19Wright, at Citadel Securities Event: 'We Are Converting Dark Tankers to Legitimate Tankers. There Is No Removing of Sanctions.' No OFAC Instrument Found 6 srcreported
2026-10-17Bloomberg Investigation (Baker and Bengani) Finds Matryoshka Bots Inflating View Counts on Fake Videos Against Democrats in 20 Senate and 29 Governor Races 2 src
Graphika · Bloomberg News · X
confirmed
2026-10-17Bloomberg Review: Russian Matryoshka Bot Network Inflates Fake Videos Targeting Democratic Candidates in Midterms 2 src
Bloomberg News · Graphika
confirmed
2026-10-16Trump Executive Order Sets the Graham Act's Russia Duties and Waives Them in the Same Order Before the Statutory Deadline 2 srcconfirmed
2026-10-15FT, Citing Four Unnamed People: Witkoff and Kushner Proposed in Miami That Europe Unfreeze Some Russian Sovereign Assets Into a Washington-Overseen Vehicle; Europeans Said No 3 srcreported
2026-10-15Patel Posts "From Russia, with Love" After MS NOW Report That He Was in Russia Is Corrected; He Was at Liberty University 1 srcreported
2026-10-15Reuters, Citing an Unnamed US Official: Administration Considering Letting 'Legal Oil' Move on Previously Sanctioned Shadow-Fleet Tankers to Cut Freight Rates 3 srcreported
2026-10-14Cloudflare Publishes Yandex-Outage Analysis: Search-Crawler Traffic Fell, Yandex.Cloud Automation Moved to Other Russian Hosts, No Social-Media Shift Seen in Its Data 1 srcreported
2026-10-11Bipartisan Senators Say GL 135 Russian Diesel Imports Run Counter to 2022 Ban and Skipped Required Consultation; Letter Oct 13 Demands Rescission 3 srcreported
2026-10-11Trump Posts on Truth Social: 'Effective Immediately, There Is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War Between Russia and Ukraine'; Zelensky Says It Was News to Him 2 srcreported
2026-10-09Trump Announces Russia Will Supply Diesel After Call With Putin; Treasury Temporarily Suspends Sanctions on Russian Diesel Until April 2027 (OFAC General License 135) 3 srcreported
2026-10-08OpenAI bans Russian 'Dark Clark' ChatGPT accounts that ran a fake Latin American think tank 2 src
OpenAI · Javier Milei
confirmed
2026-10-08Yandex Reports Drone Attacks Disabling Three Data Centres in Four Days (Sasovo Oct 8, Kaluga Oct 9, Vladimir Oct 11); Reuters Attributes the First Two to Ukrainian Drones 2 srcreported
2026-10-05Russian Military Court Sentences Activist Leonid Melekhin to Six Years After Failed US Asylum Bid and Return to Russia 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-30CSIS Commentary on Russia-Iran Intelligence Cooperation and the Targeting of U.S. Forces 1 src
Russia · Iran
reported
2026-09-21Graphika Publishes Its Own Assessment That Operation Overload and the Prigozhin-Founded R-FBI Produced Fake Videos Against US Midterm Candidates 1 src
Graphika
confirmed
2026-09-18Trump Signs Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (H.R. 5334, Pub. L. 119-111): Duties on Russian Goods, Waiver by Certification, Congressional Review Only for Termination 3 srcconfirmed
2026-09-14ProPublica: IBA president Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Trump Jr.'s May 2026 Bahamas wedding-weekend celebrations; repayment later asserted by Trump, unevidenced 6 src
Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Robert Garcia
reported
2026-09-11MS NOW reports Matryoshka (Storm-1679) campaign of CNN-branded, voice-cloned celebrity videos urging a vote against Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterms 2 src
CNN
confirmed
2026-09-10Anthropic's September 2026 threat report says it removed a Claude account run for a Russian operation in the Central African Republic and links the actor to Politology 2 src
Anthropic
confirmed
2026-01-07US Navy Seizes Two Venezuelan Oil Tankers Including Russian-Flagged Vessel Near Iceland 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Navy · Russia · China · +1
confirmed
2025-12-27Russia Launches Massive Attack on Kyiv with 500 Drones and 40 Missiles 2 src
Vladimir Putin · Volodymyr Zelenskyy
confirmed
2025-12-04Macron Warns Zelenskyy U.S. May Betray Ukraine on Territory 6 src
Emmanuel Macron · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Mark Rutte · Donald Trump · +4
confirmed
2025-12-04Trump Administration Releases National Security Strategy Denouncing Democratic Allies, Embracing Authoritarian Partnerships 6 src
Donald Trump · National Security Council · Jason Crow
reported
2025-12-02Voice of America Bureau Closures Surrender Strategic Information Space to Russia and China 4 src
Donald Trump · Voice of America · Federal Judiciary · State Department
reported
2025-11-29WSJ Reports Putin Negotiator Dmitriev Pitched Tapping ~$300B Frozen Russian Central-Bank Assets, Arctic Minerals and a Joint Mars Mission With SpaceX During Miami Peace-Plan Talks; No Source Shows Musk Agreed 3 src
Kirill Dmitriev · Steve Witkoff · Jared Kushner · SpaceX · +1
reported
2025-08-27US Imposes 50% Tariff on India for Buying Russian Oil, Exempts Apple 3 src
Donald Trump · Russia
confirmed
2025-08-26Exxon Held Secret Negotiations With Sanctioned Russian Oil Giant Rosneft Over Sakhalin Return 2 src
Rosneft · Vladimir Putin · Trump
reported
2025-02-07Kash Patel Received Payments from Russian Filmmaker with Kremlin Ties 3 src
Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Senate Judiciary Committee
confirmed
2025-02-06Trump Administration Disbands Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs 4 src
Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Russian Oligarchs
confirmed
2025-02-05Trump Administration Shuts Down KleptoCapture Task Force 4 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Merrick Garland · Russian Oligarchs · +1
confirmed
2025-01-25DNI Tulsi Gabbard's Secret Assad Meeting and Russian Ties Alarm Intelligence Allies 5 src
Tulsi Gabbard · Russian Intelligence · Senate Republicans
confirmed
2022-03-01Task Force KleptoCapture Launched: US Expands Anti-Kleptocracy Operations 3 src
Merrick Garland · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Secret Service · +1
confirmed
2021-03-18Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations 3 src
Cellebrite
confirmed
2021-01-19Navalny Investigation Reveals Putin's Palace Complex 4 src
Vladimir Putin · Gennady Timchenko
confirmed
2020-02-20Trump Fires Acting DNI Joseph Maguire After Intelligence Briefing That Russia Prefers Trump in 2020 4 src
Donald Trump · Richard Grenell · Adam Schiff
confirmed
2019-11-21Fiona Hill Testifies - Giuliani Ran Shadow Ukraine Policy for "Domestic Political Errand" 3 src
Rudy Giuliani · John Bolton · Gordon Sondland · Donald Trump
confirmed
2019-07-28Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Resigns After Repeated Conflicts with Trump Over Russia 4 src
Dan Coats · Donald Trump · John Ratcliffe · Vladimir Putin
confirmed
2019-04-15Russian Oligarch-Linked Rusal Invests $200 Million in Kentucky Braidy Plant After McConnell Blocks Sanctions 4 src
Oleg Deripaska · Mitch McConnell · Trump Administration
confirmed
2018-12-15New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments 6 src
McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Saudi Arabia · China · +1
confirmed
2018-07-19Senate Votes 98-0 to Reject Putin's Request to Interrogate U.S. Officials in Bipartisan Rebuke of Trump 4 src
Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Chuck Schumer
confirmed
2018-07-17Trump Claims He Misspoke "Would" Instead of "Wouldn't" in Implausible Helsinki Walkback Attempt 3 src
Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin
confirmed
2018-07-16Trump Sides with Putin Over U.S. Intelligence at Helsinki Summit, Attacks Own Agencies 4 src
Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Dan Coats · John Brennan · +1
confirmed
2018-01-01Putin-Linked Company Receives Tariff Exemption Until Public Outcry 4 src
Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren · Trump Administration
confirmed
2017-11-05Paradise Papers Reveal Commerce Secretary Ross Concealed Stake in Russian-Linked Shipping Company 3 src
Wilbur Ross · Gennady Timchenko · Vladimir Putin
confirmed
2017-06-03Reality Winner Arrested for Leaking Russian Election Interference Report 3 src
National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · Trump Administration
confirmed
2017-05-10Trump Reveals Israeli Classified Intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Oval Office - Day After Comey Firing 2 src
Donald Trump · Sergey Kislyak · Benjamin Netanyahu
confirmed
2016-08-14Black Ledger Reveals $12.7 Million in Secret Cash Payments to Trump Campaign Chair Manafort 4 src
Paul Manafort · Oleg Deripaska · Trump Campaign
confirmed
2016-07-27Trump Publicly Calls on Russia to Hack Clinton Emails, GRU Begins Targeting Clinton Servers Same Day 4 src
Donald Trump · Russian GRU · Hillary Clinton · Robert Mueller
confirmed
2016-07-22WikiLeaks Releases 20,000 Stolen DNC Emails Three Days Before Democratic Convention 4 src
WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Russian GRU · Democratic National Committee · +2
confirmed
2016-06-15Guccifer 2.0 (Russian GRU) Begins Leaking Stolen DNC Emails Hours After Hack Exposure 4 src
Russian GRU · Democratic National Committee · WikiLeaks · Robert Mueller
confirmed
2016-05-01Roger Stone Meets Russian National Offering Clinton Dirt for $2 Million 3 src
Roger Stone · Russian Intelligence
confirmed
2016-01-01NRA Spends Record $30-55 Million Supporting Trump, FBI Investigates Russian Money Laundering 4 src
National Rifle Association · Donald Trump · Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · +2
confirmed
2015-07-11Russian Agent Maria Butina Questions Trump About Sanctions at FreedomFest, Trump Promises to "Get Along" with Putin 4 src
Maria Butina · Donald Trump · Alexander Torshin · Vladimir Putin
confirmed
2014-03-18Annexation of Crimea: Putin's Strategic Asset Seizure 4 src
Vladimir Putin
confirmed
2013-11-09Trump Holds Miss Universe in Moscow, Partners with Putin-Connected Agalarovs for Trump Tower Moscow 4 src
Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Trump Organization
confirmed
2013-08-01Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum After 39 Days in Moscow Airport 3 src
Edward Snowden · Russia · Vladimir Putin
confirmed
2013-06-23Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Moscow Seeking Asylum Amid U.S. Diplomatic Pressure 3 src
Edward Snowden · WikiLeaks · State Department
confirmed
2012-04-06Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress 3 src
John McCain · U.S. Congress
confirmed
1999-12-31Yeltsin Resigns, Oligarchs Elevate Putin to President: KGB Officer Chosen to Protect 'The Family' Transforms Russia into Kleptocracy 5 src
Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Putin · Boris Berezovsky · Vladimir Gusinsky · +3
confirmed
1999-08-09Putin Appointed Prime Minister by Yeltsin 3 src
Vladimir Putin · Boris Yeltsin
confirmed
1998-08-17Russia Defaults on Debt and Abandons Ruble Defense: Largest Sovereign Default in History Caps Decade of Economic Devastation 4 src
Boris Yeltsin · International Monetary Fund · Russian Government
confirmed
1998-01-01Deutsche Bank Loans Trump $2.5 Billion Despite Russian Money Laundering and Red Flags 4 src
Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Russian Oligarchs
confirmed
1997-09-01USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments 4 src
United States Agency for International Development · Lawrence Summers
confirmed
1996-07-03Oligarchs Bankroll Yeltsin Re-election Victory: 'Seven Bankers' Control 50-70% of Russia's Economy Through Loans-for-Shares Deal 4 src
Boris Yeltsin · Boris Berezovsky · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Vladimir Gusinsky · +1
confirmed
1995-11-17Russia's Loans-for-Shares Auctions Transfer Major State Enterprises to Yeltsin-Aligned Bankers at Fraction-of-Value Prices, Creating the Oligarch Class 12 src
Boris Yeltsin · Anatoly Chubais · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · +2
reported
1995-11-01Russia's 'Loans-for-Shares' Auctions Transfer $100 Billion in State Assets to Oligarchs for Pennies on the Dollar 4 src
Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Boris Berezovsky · +2
confirmed
1995-04-01IMF Approves $6.8 Billion Russia Loan With Structural Adjustment Conditions: Second Largest Loan in IMF History Fails to Stabilize Economy 4 src
International Monetary Fund · Boris Yeltsin · Bill Clinton · World Bank · +1
confirmed
1992-10-01Russia Begins Mass Voucher Privatization: 148 Million Citizens Given Certificates Worth 'Two Volga Cars' That Become Worthless 7 src
Anatoly Chubais · Boris Yeltsin · Russian Government
confirmed
1992-01-02Russia Launches 'Shock Therapy' Economic Reforms: Price Liberalization Triggers 2,520% Inflation and Economic Collapse 5 src
Boris Yeltsin · Harvard University · International Monetary Fund · Russian Government
confirmed
1992-01-01Harvard Receives $40 Million USAID Contract to Advise Russia's Economic Transition: 'Harvard's Blank Check from Uncle Sam' 10 src
Lawrence Summers · United States Agency for International Development · Anatoly Chubais
confirmed
1991-12-01Harvard's Sachs Becomes Yeltsin Economic Advisor After 'Grand Bargain' for Soviet Support Rejected by Bush Administration 4 src
Boris Yeltsin · George H.W. Bush · Harvard University
confirmed