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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

widely professed religion in Russia, with significant minorities of non-religious people and adherents of other faiths. Russia has the world's largest Orthodox...

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...

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

Telecommunications in Russia is highly developed and have evolved from the early days of the telegraph to modern fibre broadband and high-speed 4G networks...

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

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...

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

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

Hinduism has been spread in Russia primarily due to the work of scholars from the religious organization International Society for Krishna Consciousness...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in Russia face significant legal and social challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents...

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...

criminality at play in Russia. Violent crime in Siberia is much more apparent than in Western Russia. In 2020, the murder rate in Russia was 4.7 per 100,000...

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

Healthcare in Russia, or the Russian Federation, is provided by the state through the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, and regulated through...

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

Terrorism in Russia has a long history starting from the time of the Russian Empire. Terrorism, in the modern sense, means violence against civilians to...

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...

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...

On the federal level, Russia elects a president as head of state and a parliament, one of the two chambers of the Federal Assembly. The president is elected...

Women in Russia have a rich and varied history during numerous regimes throughout the centuries. Since Russian society is multicultural, the experiences...

Conscription in Russia (Russian: всеобщая воинская обязанность, romanized: vseobshchaya voinskaya obyazannost, translated as "universal military obligation"...

The United States and Russia maintain one of the most important, critical, and strategic foreign relations in the world. They have had diplomatic relations...