2026 in Russia

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Events in the year 2026 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Mishustin

Ongoing

• Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–present)
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–present)

Events

January

• 5 January – Three people are injured in a polar bear attack in Nosok, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
• 8 January – Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher imprisoned in Russia since 2024 on charges of failing to register as a "foreign agent", is released in a prisoner swap in exchange for Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, who had been detained in France since 2025 on suspicion of involvement in cyberhacking.
• 13 January – Russia expels a British diplomat after accusing him of spying.
• 14 January – Two senior doctors are arrested over the suspicious deaths of nine newborn infants at a maternity hospital in Novokuznetsk from 4 to 12 January.
• 15 January –
  • One person is killed while 17 others are injured in an explosion at a police training center in Syktyvkar.
  • Two people are killed after being buried by falling snow piles from buildings in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
• 19 January – A court in Sochi sentences an American citizen to five years' imprisonment on charges of illegally transporting weapons after being found with a rifle aboard his yacht in June 2025.
• 21 January – The Second Western District Military Court in Moscow sentences Uzbek national Akhmadzhon Kurbonov to life imprisonment for the assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in 2024.
• 22 January – The FSB arrests a Russian national on suspicion of spying for Moldova.
• 25 January – A state of emergency is declared in Murmansk Oblast due to power outages caused by heavy snowstorms.
• 28 January –
  • The Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka erupts.
  • Alexander Vainberg resigns from the Federation Council to undertake military service in Ukraine.

February

• 2 February – A bus collides with a truck in Krasnoyarsk, killing five people and injuring six others.
• 3 February – Myanmar and Russia sign a five-year military cooperation agreement.
• 4 February – Six people are injured in a combined arson and hammer attack by a student inside a school in Krasnoyarsk Krai.
• 5 February – Russia expels a German diplomat in retaliation for the expulsion of a Russian diplomat by Germany for spying in January.
• 6 February – Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, the deputy head of the GRU, is shot and severely injured by an unidentified gunman in Moscow.
• 7 February – Four Indian students are injured in a knife attack at the dormitory of the Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa.
• 10 February – Roskomnadzor announces phased restrictions on Telegram on charges of violating laws requiring data on Russian users to be stored inside the country and the removal of usage for "criminal and terrorist purposes".
• 11 February –
  • One person is killed in a shooting at a technical college in Anapa, Krasnodar Krai.
  • President Putin issues a decree establishing a general staff for the National Guard of Russia.
• 12 February –
  • The government blocks access to WhatsApp in Russia on charges of violating domestic laws.
  • The deputy governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Andrei Faleychik, is arrested on suspicion of bribery.
• 17 February –
  • The International Paralympic Committee allows Russian paralympians to compete under their national flag for the first time since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022.
  • Three people are killed in an explosion at a military police facility in Sertolovo, Leningrad Oblast.
• 19 February – Amina Shafikova, the culture minister of Bashkortostan, is arrested on suspicion of corruption.
• 20 February – A tour bus carrying Chinese nationals falls through an ice crevasse along Lake Baikal, killing eight people.
• 23 February - Hungary and Slovakia block the European Union’s 20th sanctions package against Russia, preventing its adoption ahead of the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• 24 February – A police officer and a bomber are killed in a bomb attack near Moscow Savyolovsky railway station.
• 27 February – Alexei Botvin, the mayor of Bodaybo, Irkutsk Oblast is arrested on charges of abuse of power over the neglect of the town's heating and water facilities.

March

• 3 March – A court in Saint Petersburg designates the LGBT rights group Coming Out an "extremist organization".

Predicted and scheduled

• By 20 September – 2026 Russian legislative election

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Russia

Source:

• 1–8 January – New Year's Day and Holidays
• 7 January – Christmas (Orthodox)
• 23 February – Defender of the Fatherland Day
• 24 February – Defender of the Fatherland Holiday
• 8 March – International Women's Day
• 9 March – International Women's Day Holiday
• 1 May – Spring and Labour Day
• 9 May – Victory Day
• 12 June – Russia Day
• 4 November – Unity Day

Deaths

• 1 January – Mukhsin Mukhamadiev, 59, Tajik-Russian football player (Tajikistan national team, Russia national team) and manager (Tajikistan national team).
• 8 January – Evgeny Lyubivyi, 51, politician.
• 11 January – Pavel Akishev, 42, baseball player (national team) (death announced on this date).
• 14 January – Layonel Adams, 31, footballer (Banants, Cerceda, Isloch Minsk Raion).
• 17 Januyar – Lazar Shvets, 86, Russian Orthodox priest.
• 24 January – Boris Belousov, 91, Soviet minister of defense industry (1989–1991).
• 3 February – Ivan Nikulin, 89, member of the Soviet of the Union (1984–1989).
• 5 February – Vladimir Kuroyedov, 81, admiral, commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy (1997–2005).
• 13 February – Roy Medvedev, 100, politician, Soviet dissident and writer (Let History Judge).
• 15 February – Maria Vagatova, 89, poet.
• 20 February – Zoya Dorodova, 85, singer (Buranovskiye Babushki).
• 24 February –
  • Irina Shevchuk, 74, actress (The Dawns Here Are Quiet, White Bim Black Ear).
  • Nina Gabrielyan, 72, poet, writer, and artist.
• 25 February – Natalya Klimova, 87, actress (Comrade Arseny, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, The Snow Queen).
• 2 March – Umar Dzhabrailov, 67, banker and politician, senator (2004–2009).

External links

• Online calendar