Events in the year 2018 in Russia. President: Vladimir Putin Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev 15 January - Two men aged 16, attacked students and a teacher...

Presidential elections were held in Russia on 18 March 2018. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin was eligible to run. He declared his intent to do so on...

international incident that occurred on 25 November 2018 in the Kerch Strait, during which the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) coast guard fired upon...

organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in late 2010. It was the eleventh...

The 2018 Russia–United States summit (also known as the Helsinki 2018 or the Trump–Putin summit) was a summit meeting between United States President...

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, and extends across eleven...

"In Soviet Russia", also called the Russian reversal, is a joke template taking the general form "In America you do X to/with Y; in Soviet Russia Y does...

This is a list of airports in Russia (Russian Federation), sorted by location. As of September 2018[update], Russia had 227 operational airports registered...

Prostitution is illegal in Russia. The punishment for engagement in prostitution is a fine from 1500 up to 2000 rubles. Moreover, organizing prostitution...

Athletes from Russia (OAR) was the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) designation of select Russian athletes permitted to participate in the 2018 Winter...

Miss Russia 2018 the 26th edition of the Miss Russia pageant, held in concert hall Barvikha Luxury Village in Moscow on 14 April 2018. Fifty contestants...

Muftis of Russia, sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin, estimated the Muslim population of Russia at 25 million in 2018. Recognized under the law and by Russian political...

Systematic doping of Russian athletes has resulted in 51 Olympic medals stripped from Russia (and Russian associated teams), four times the number of the...

prevailing framework of federal laws. Russia's expenditure on education has grown from 2.7% of the GDP in 2005 to 4.7% in 2018 but remains below the OECD average...

Religion in Russia (2024 estimate) Russian Orthodoxy (61.8%) Other Christian (2.6%) No religion (21.2%) Islam (9.5%) Other religions (1.4%) Undeclared...

The 2017–2018 Russian protests were a long series of countrywide street protest actions and demonstrations in the Russian Federation, which were primarily...

health concern in Russia, especially for men of working age. Excessive alcohol use has caused many early deaths. Alcoholism in Russia, according to some...

mayors in Russia are held in a small number of cities. In 2018, 12% of all cities and municipalities elected their mayors, as opposed to 65% in 2006; i...

The most popular sport in Russia is Association football, referred to as "soccer" in the USA. According to Yandex search analysis results rating of the...

school shooting in Russia or Ukraine since the 2004 Beslan school siege. Vladislav Roslyakov purchased a shotgun on 8 September 2018 and bought 150 rounds...

formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf...

Television is the most popular medium in Russia, with 74% of the population watching national television channels routinely and 59% routinely watching...

April 16, 2018, the Russian government began blocking access to Telegram, an instant messaging service. The blocking led to interruptions in the operation...

warheads in 1986. The number of weapons Russia may possess is currently controlled by the bilateral New START treaty with the United States. Russia and the...

Russia has an estimated population of 146.0 million as of 1 January 2025, down from 147.2 million recorded in the 2021 census. It is the most populous...

Since 2020 in Russia, for incomes of the population, the median per capita income is calculated, based on the size of which the subsistence rate and the...

Prisons in Russia consist of four types of facilities: pre-trial institutions; educative or juvenile colonies; corrective colonies; and prisons. A corrective...

into Donald Trump and Russia (January–June 2017) Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (July–December 2017) 2018 Timeline of investigations...

Christianity in Russia is the most widely professed religion in the country. The largest tradition is the Russian Orthodox Church. According to official...

who began a war in the eastern Donbas region against Ukraine's military. In 2018, Ukraine declared the region to be occupied by Russia. These first eight...