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Aragvi opened on Tverskaya Street in 1938 and became the Georgian restaurant of Soviet Moscow - a table for the nomenklatura and their guests, said to have been founded under Beria's patronage, with frescoed cellars beneath the street. It has since closed.

The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 prototype CCCP-68001 flew for 37 minutes from Zhukovsky on 31 December 1968, two months before Concorde, to become the first supersonic airliner to fly.

The Tu-144 prototype went supersonic for the first time on 5 June 1969, four months before Concorde, and reached Mach 2.02 on 26 May 1970.

Aeroflot began passenger flights with the Tu-144 on 1 November 1977 on the 3,100 km Moscow to Alma-Ata route; the service lasted until 1 June 1978, 55 passenger flights in all.

On 3 February 2011 Russia's IAC Aviation Register presented the Sukhoi Superjet 100 type certificate at a Moscow ceremony, after about 200 certification programmes and 2,594 flight hours on four prototypes.

Rosaviatsia issued the Irkut MC-21-300 type certificate and a design-organisation certificate in late December 2021, four and a half years after the first flight; it covered the Pratt & Whitney-powered version only.

Russia said it flew its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile for about 15 hours and 14,000 km; Putin later said a NATO reconnaissance ship watched the 21 October test and honoured its designers at the Kremlin.

On 29 January 2026 Lukoil signed a non-exclusive agreement to sell LUKOIL International GmbH, its portfolio outside Russia worth about $22 billion, to the US investment firm Carlyle, subject to OFAC approval; Kazakhstan's assets are excluded.

A Moscow court ordered the state seizure of Rusagro founder Vadim Moshkovich's assets, sweeping in a 24% stake in oils-and-fats company JSC Etalon held by LLC Profit, which Wilmar says it half-owns and has an option to take over.

Russia's Strategic Missile Forces test-fired the Sarmat heavy liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile, which commander Sergei Karakayev said was successful and would let the first Sarmat regiment go on combat duty at Uzhur by the end of 2026.

Russia's State Duma election runs over three days, September 18-20, 2026, its single voting day being the third Sunday of September. On 20 September 2026 Polymarket gave United Russia a 99.8% chance of winning the most seats, and its companion market had the party landing on 340-354 seats (43%) or 325-339 (34%).

The October 23 decision kept the key rate at 14%. The prior October 20 market snapshot had assigned a hold 86% probability on US$155,363.70 traded.