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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.

Russia's first new post-Soviet airliner, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 prototype, took off from Komsomolsk-on-Amur on 19 May 2008 and flew for 1 hour 5 minutes to 1,200 m with test pilots Alexander Yablontsev and Leonid Chikunov.

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.

Russia's Irkut MC-21-300 flew for the first time on 28 May 2017, a 30-minute flight to 3,280 feet with test pilots Oleg Kononenko and Roman Taskayev, nearly a year after its roll-out.

A greenfield, $940M airport built ahead of Russia's 2018 World Cup opens outside Rostov-on-Don, engineered to be able to double its capacity later.

The 462m Lakhta Center opened on the outskirts of St Petersburg, becoming Europe's tallest building and the world's northernmost skyscraper, taller than the Empire State Building.

Belgian engineering firm Coek Engineering built the world's largest gold-processing autoclave, a 1,100-tonne titanium-lined pressure vessel, and shipped it 25,000 km from Antwerp to Polymetal's Amursk POX-2 plant in Russia's Far East. The vessel was installed on schedule in August 2020.

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.

Ukraine's Security Service launched drones hidden in trucks against Russian strategic bomber bases as far as Siberia; Zelensky said 117 drones were used and reports citing the SBU said 41 bombers were hit, while Russia said several planes caught fire.

Russia and Belarus held their first Zapad joint strategic exercise since the invasion of Ukraine, which Putin said involved 100,000 troops at 41 ranges and included practice with nuclear weapons and the Oreshnik missile, as Poland shut its border with Belarus.

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.

From 22 March 2026 drone attacks on Russia's two big Baltic oil ports, Primorsk and Ust-Luga, suspended oil and fuel loadings; Reuters satellite analysis later showed Primorsk lost at least 40% of its storage, and the Kremlin called the strikes "terrorist attacks".

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.

Rosneft's Vostok Oil project loaded its first tanker at the new Bukhta Sever terminal on Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, opening a huge new Arctic export route despite Western sanctions.

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%).

Lukoil's Perm refinery, over 1,500 km from Ukraine and Russia's seventh largest, halted operations on 25 September 2026 after a Ukrainian drone attack set it on fire, Reuters reported, the fourth Russian refinery to stop in under a week.

Ukrainian drones struck the Ilsky oil refinery, a 6.6 million tonne-a-year plant in Krasnodar Krai, on the night of 26 September 2026, starting a fire; the General Staff confirmed the strike, which it described as exercising Ukraine's right of self-defense.

A 28-year-old worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died on 2 October in Shelekhov, Siberia, with Rospotrebnadzor citing pneumonia of unknown cause while nearly 200 people were placed under observation amid unconfirmed plague rumours.

USGS recorded a magnitude 6.9 (mww) earthquake 76 km NE of Ozernovskiy, Russia at 2026-10-16 03:35 UTC, at a depth of 135 km. USGS's PAGER impact alert level is green. 2 people reported feeling it.

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.

Russia says the first regiment armed with the Sarmat heavy ICBM will go on combat duty at the Uzhur missile division in Krasnoyarsk Territory by the end of 2026, after years of delays and test failures.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 06:27:55 UT on 2030-06-01, and the annular phase lasts up to 5 minutes 21 seconds along a path 249.6 km wide crossing Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey, Russia, n. China and Japan. A partial eclipse is visible from Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Arctic and Alaska.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 18:56:22 UT on 2043-04-09, and the total phase, a non-central eclipse with no central line, falls over northeastern Russia. A partial eclipse is visible from northern North America and northeastern Asia.