2007

Daniel McGrory, a senior correspondent for The Times of London, has reported many of the developments in the Litvinenko investigation, been shot dead.

• Dozens detained as riot police break up St Petersburg protest by demonstrators accusing President Putin of stifling democracy.

• Ramzan Kadyrov, suspected of human-rights abuses and of involvement in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, is elected president of Chechnya

• Ethnic Russians riot with Involvement of Russian FSB in Estonia to protest the removal of a Soviet monument

• Russian cyberattacks on Estonia

• Russia mounts an Arctic expedition apparently aimed at expanding its territorial claims and plants a flag on the seabed at the North Pole.

• President Putin signs law suspending Russia's participation in the 1990 Conventional Armed Forces in Europe treaty that limits the deployment of heavy military equipment across Europe.

• Russians view the collapse of the Soviet empire as a result of Western intervention rather than the failure of economic policies. Vladimir Putin himself once remarked that the “The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.”

• Beheading of a Tajik and Dagestani immigrants by Russian neo-nazis

• 2003-2013 Yukos oil boss and prominent liberal Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrested on charges of tax evasion and fraud, an early casualty of President Putin's campaign to drive Yeltsin-era 'oligarchs' out of politics. In 2005 he is sentenced to nine years imprisonment, and is pardoned and goes into exile in 2013.

• 1999-2009 Second Chechen War, Hundreds of civilians are killed and tens of thousands are left homeless as civilian targets are attacked.

• 2007- War in Ingushetia

• 2000- Chechen Insurgency

• 1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict

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