The sinking Motion_directional of the nuclear-powered `` Kursk '' ( Russian : ) took place Process_start during the first major Russian naval exercise in more than ten years , in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000 , killing Killing all 118 personnel on board .

The sinking Motion_directional of the nuclear-powered `` Kursk '' ( Russian : ) took place Process_start during the first major Russian naval exercise in more than ten years , in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000 , killing Killing all 118 personnel on board .

Nearby ships felt the initial explosion Attack and a second , much larger , explosion Attack , yet the Russian Navy did not realise Know that an accident had occurred Presence and did not initiate Process_start a search Scrutiny for the sub for more than six hours .

President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort ; he only authorised Preventing_or_letting the Russian Navy to accept Receiving British and Norwegian offers of assistance Assistance five days after the incident .

The Government of Russia and the Russian Navy came Causation under intense criticism Judgment_communication over the incident .

Vice-Admiral Valery Ryazantsev drew Motion attention to systemic faults in the Russian Navy , such as the risky use Using of highly volatile HTP torpedoes known Know to have caused Causation the sinking Motion_directional of .

Ryazantsev accused Judgment_communication the Russian navy of failing to properly train Education_teaching the crew , who did not appear to have properly closed the inner torpedo room safety door designed to protect Defending the rest of the submarine .

The video coverage of the meeting Social_event was sanitised Emptying for Russian audiences but leaked Reveal_secret to international media , later shocking Response Russian audiences when they saw footage of a mother being forcibly sedated Action before she was removed Removing from the meeting Social_event .

The video coverage of the meeting Social_event was sanitised Emptying for Russian audiences but leaked Reveal_secret to international media , later shocking Response Russian audiences when they saw footage of a mother being forcibly sedated Action before she was removed Removing from the meeting Social_event .

More than two years after the sinking Motion_directional , the Russian government completed Process_end a 133-volume , top-secret investigation Criminal_investigation of the disaster Catastrophe .

Moreover , they concluded Process_end that the rescue Rescuing operation was unjustifiably delayed Change_event_time and that the Russian Navy was completely unprepared Response to respond Response to the disaster Catastrophe .

The Russo-Japanese War Hostile_encounter ( ; ; `` Japanese-Russian War '' ) was fought Hostile_encounter during 1904–1905 between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea .

Seeing Russia as a rival , Japan offered Self_motion to recognize Ratification Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange Exchange for recognition Judgment_communication of Korea as being within the Japanese sphere of influence .

The Japanese government perceived Know a Russian threat to their plans Arranging for expansion Expansion into Asia and chose Choosing to go to war .

After negotiations Communication broke down Process_end in 1904 , the Japanese Navy opened Process_start hostilities by attacking Attack the Russian Eastern Fleet at Port Arthur , China , in a surprise attack Attack .

Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest Protest against Tsar Nicholas I 's assumption Earnings_and_losses of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed Removing himself from the line of succession .

The most correct name Name_conferral for Decembrists could be Russian Americanophiles .

But while conceding Agree_or_refuse_to_act with Pestel that the American revolutionary Change_of_leadership model of the federal government could be the best form for Russia , the Polish patriotic society could not agree Agree_or_refuse_to_act not only with partaking Participation with this federation establishment Creating , but with the same form of government for unitarian Poland and requested Request for Lithuania , Belarus and Ukraine without any Russian involvement Participation into the affairs of these territories and any Polish federalization Institutionalization .

In 1816 , several officers of the Imperial Russian Guard founded Creating a society known as the Union of Salvation , or of the Faithful and True Sons of the Fatherland .

Pestel was supported Supporting by Yakushkin when there were rumours that the emperor had intended to transfer Change the capital from Saint-Petersburg to Warsaw and to liberate Conquering all peasants without the consent Commitment of Russian landlords which could not influence Influence the government being in Warsaw .

When the society consisting Cause_to_be_included of Russian landlords had refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to kill Killing an emperor because only of rumors Yakushkin left Departing the society .

( The small Ordain of Russian knights for exception of its active member Alexander von Benckendorff also joined Becoming_a_member the Union of Prosperity together with the members of the Union of Salvation . )

The political aims Aiming of the more moderate Northern Society were a British-style constitutional monarchy with a limited franchise , though it could be replaced Change_of_leadership with a republic in the future but only according to the will of the people , assuming the legislative assembly and excluding Preventing_or_letting the execution of the imperial family , the abolition GiveUp of serfdom according to the interests of Russian landlords , i. e. with land in the ownership of landlords mainly still similar to the abolition GiveUp of serfdom in Baltic provinces , and equality before the law .

When the Russian army marched Self_motion into Moldavia and Wallachia in 1806 , the Ottomans declared Expressing_publicly war Hostile_encounter on Russia .

Historians estimate Statement that up to half of Hungary 's then population of 2,000,000 were victims Death of the Mongol invasion Ottokar 's troops consisted of Bohemian-Moravian , German , Polish , Carinthian , Carniolan and Styrian forces , while Bela 's huge army gathered Come_together Hungarian , Slovak , Cuman , Russian , Polish , Bulgarian , Wallachian , Ukrainian ( Galician ) , Slavonian , Croatian , Bosnian , Serbian , Pecheneg and Szekler contingents .

The climax of the engagement occurred Presence on November 17 , when an aggressive feint Defending by the French Imperial Guard induced Causation Kutuzov to delay Change_event_time a potentially decisive final Process_end Russian attack Attack .

The social networking website LinkedIn was hacked Theft on June 5 , 2012 , and passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen Theft by Russian cybercriminals .

just a checksum was stored Preserving , allowing testing Testing whether a given password is the correct one ) , were cracked Bodily_harm and posted Placing on a Russian password forum later on that day .

In a stricter sense , the term refers to the Swedish invasion Attack and occupation Control of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War Hostile_encounter ( 1655–1660 ) only ; In Poland and Lithuania this period is called Name_conferral the Swedish Deluge ( , ) , or less commonly the Russo–Swedish Deluge ( ) due to the Russian invasion Attack in 1654 .

Swedish and Russian invaders Attack completely destroyed Destroying 188 cities and towns , 81 castles , and 136 churches in Poland .

Numerous villagers died Death at the hands of Russian paramilitary troops , many of them reportedly drunk Ingestion or drugged Bodily_harm , under the command of Gen. Anatoly Kulikov .

The attack Attack was initially thought to have been carried out Attack by a female suicide bomber Terrorism , sometimes known Know in Russian as a shahidka ( `` Black Widow '' ) .

On 30 December it was reported Reporting that the perpetrator was an ethnic Russian convert Change to Islam from the city of Volzhsk , in the Mari El Republic , by the name of Pavel Pechenkin , who changed Change his name to Ar-Rusi after conversion to Islam .

He was born to an ethnic Russian father , Nikolai , and a Muslim mother , Fanaziya , who both appealed Request to their son to abstain Removing from violence Violence and attempted to find Placing him in Dagestan .

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Request the most seriously injured Bodily_harm to be flown Motion to Moscow for specialist treatment Cure .

The Crimean Peninsula was annexed Becoming_a_member by the Russian Federation in February–March 2014 and since then has been administered Control as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol .

The Crimean Peninsula was annexed Becoming_a_member by the Russian Federation in February–March 2014 and since then has been administered Control as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol .

The annexation Change_of_leadership from Ukraine followed a Russian military intervention in Crimea that took place Process_start in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution Change_of_leadership and was part of wider unrest Violence across southern and eastern Ukraine .

On 22–23 February 2014 , Russian president Vladimir Putin convened Come_together an all-night meeting Social_event with security service Supply chiefs to discuss Communication the extrication Rescuing of the deposed Ukrainian president , Viktor Yanukovych .

On 27 February , masked Wearing Russian troops without insignia took over Conquering the Supreme Council ( parliament ) of Crimea , and captured Conquering strategic sites across Crimea , which led to Causation the installation Change_of_leadership of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea , the conducting Action of the Crimean status referendum and the declaration Expressing_publicly of Crimea 's independence Change_of_leadership on 16 March 2014 .

Russia formally incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate Crimea as two federal subjects of the Russian Federation with effect from 18 March 2014 .

The Russian Federation opposes Agree_or_refuse_to_act the `` annexation '' label , with Putin defending Defending the referendum Change_of_leadership as complying with the principle of self-determination of peoples .

In July 2015 , Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said Statement that Crimea had been fully integrated Cause_to_amalgamate into Russia .

These demonstrations , which followed the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation ( February to March 2014 ) , and which were part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine , escalated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale into an armed conflict Hostile_encounter between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People 's Republics ( DPR and LPR respectively ) , and the Ukrainian government .

In the Donetsk People 's Republic , from May 2014 until a change Change of the top leadership in August 2014 , some of the top leaders were Russian citizens .

According to the Ukrainian government , at the height of the conflict Hostile_encounter in mid-2014 , Russian paramilitaries were reported Reporting to make up between 15 % to 80 % of the combatants .

Between 22 and 25 August 2014 , Russian artillery , personnel , and what Russia called Name_conferral a `` humanitarian convoy '' crossed Motion_directional the border into Ukrainian territory without permission of the Ukrainian government .

These events followed the reported Reporting shelling of Ukrainian positions Employment from the Russian side of the border over the course of the preceding month .

Russia 's official position on the presence of Russian forces in Donbass has been vague : while official bodies have denied Agree_or_refuse_to_act presence of `` regular armed forces '' in Ukraine , it has on numerous occasions confirmed Check presence of `` military specialists '' , along with other euphemisms , usually accompanied by an argument that Russia `` was forced Motion '' to deploy Arranging them to `` defend Defending the Russian-speaking population '' .

In 2017 , on average one Ukrainian soldier died Death in combat every three days , with the number of Russian and separatist troops remaining Presence in the region estimated at 6,000 and 40,000 respectively .