Speaking during the Poedinok programme on the Rossia 1 television channel, the leader of Russia's extreme nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, known for his headline-grabbing outbursts, called for imposing limits on the birth rate in the Muslim-dominated North Caucasus region of Russia, and restricting the movement of people from that region across the country
Anti-corruption blogger and leading opposition activist Alexei Navalny is sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement in a trial he rejects as politically motivated.
The Kremlin announces that the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti and the Voice of Russia radio station are to be restructured and placed under the control of a pro-Kremlin figure known for his extreme anti-Western views
In the lead-up of the Sochi Olympic Winter games, there were reports of wide-spread forced evictions. Amnesty International reported numerous cases in which regular Russian families were forced out of their homes.
Private property, the cornerstones of democracy, is non-existent in Russia. Anything can be seized.
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.
2013- Dagestan Insurgency
2011- Involvement in Iraqi insurgency
2011- Involvment to Syrian civil war
2009- North Caucasus Insurgency
2007- War in Ingushetia
2000- Chechen Insurgency
1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict