Bryansk Oblast, also known as Bryanshchina, is a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Bryansk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 1,169,161.
Bryansk is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the River Desna, 379 kilometers (235 mi) southwest of Moscow. It has a population of 379,152 at the 2021 census.
Krasnogorsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. The name is generally derived from or related to the collocation "krasnaya gora", meaning roughly "(a) red/beautiful mountain(s)/hill(s)".
Karachev is an ancient town and the administrative center of Karachevsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Population: 17,449 (2021 Census); 19,715 (2010 Russian census); 20,175 (2002 Census); 22,446 (1989 Soviet census).
Mglin is a town and the administrative center of Mglinsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sudynka River 167 kilometers (104 mi) west of Bryansk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 6,919 (2021 Census); 7,916 (2010 Russian census); 8,261 (2002 Census); 7,704 (1989 Soviet census).
Brasovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,185 square kilometers (458 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality of Lokot. Population: 21,471 (2010 Russian census); 24,972 ; 26,873 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Lokot accounts for 46.7% of the district's total population.
Trubchevsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,843.2 square kilometers (711.7 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Trubchevsk. Population: 33,491 (2021 Census); 37,002 (2010 Russian census); 41,690 ; 45,000 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Trubchevsk accounts for 39.7% of the district's total population.
The Kerch Polytechnic College massacre was a school shooting and bomb attack that occurred in Kerch, Crimea, on 17 October 2018, when 18-year-old student Vladislav Roslyakov killed 20 people and wounded 70 others before subsequently committing suicide. It was the deadliest school shooting in the former Soviet Union since the 2004 Beslan school siege.
Bolshoye Polpino is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of oblast significance of Bryansk of Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Population: 5,859 (2021 Census); 6,356 (2010 Russian census); 4,613 (2002 Census); 6,374 (1989 Soviet census).
Alexander Vasilyevich Bogomaz is a Russian politician who has been serving as the Governor of Bryansk Oblast since 2015.
On 11 May 2021, a school shooting and bomb attack occurred in Kazan, Tatarstan, in the western part of Russia. Nine people were murdered, and 23 others were injured. The 19-year-old shooter, Ilnaz Galyaviev, was identified as a former student. He pleaded guilty to the murder of two or more persons on 12 May and was sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2023.
The 2021 Russian election protests, also known as the "For Fair Elections" protests, began in September 2021 due to alleged large-scale electoral fraud of the 2021 Russian legislative election.
The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum is a forum founded by Ukrainian restaurant business owner Oleg Magaletsky, exiled Russian separatists, as well as foreign sympathizers, which advocates for the disintegration of Russia. It was registered in Poland.
A series of Molotov cocktail arson attacks and shootings have taken place in Russian military commissariat registration and enlistment offices since the start of the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Other governmental buildings have also been attacked in multiple regions of Russia. Part of the Russian partisan and anti-war movements, the attacks were spurred by several factors, including the outbreak of the invasion of Ukraine, the deployment of Russian conscripts to the front line, the start of spring conscription, and rumors about possible mobilization in the country, which were later found to be true. Commissariat offices recruit servicemen to the Russian Army and choose who is eligible and ineligible for service. The attacks are not a single coordinated campaign; behind them are a variety of people, from left-wing anarchists and scammers to far-right groups and assorted lone wolf actors.
On 26 September 2022, a mass shooting occurred at a school in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, in west-central Russia. Eighteen people were killed and 23 others were wounded before the gunman, identified as Artyom Kazantsev, committed suicide.
The Ust-Ilimsk military commissariat shooting occurred on 26 September 2022, when 25-year-old local resident Ruslan Zinin wounded the military commissar Alexander Eliseev by shooting him with a sawed-off shotgun, after which he was detained.
In April 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an anti-war drawing by Maria Moskalyova, a sixth-grader in the Russian town of Yefremov, led to the political persecution of the girl and her single father Aleksey Moskalyov. The father was charged with discrediting the Russian military, and the girl was separated from her father and sent to a local child care community. On 28 March 2023, a Russian court sentenced Aleksey to two years in prison. This is the first time in the Russian Federation that a court, after imprisoning a parent for political reasons, left the child without a guardian.
On 30 June 2023, a man shot and killed two people and injured another at the Chișinău International Airport in Moldova after he was denied entry into the country. The perpetrator was then shot and apprehended by security forces and died of his injuries three days later.
On the morning of 13 May 2023, an air group of four aircraft of the Russian Air Force crashed almost simultaneously in the Bryansk Oblast of Russia: two Mi-8 helicopters, a Su-34 fighter-bomber and a Su-35 fighter. According to Baza, nine people were killed: three crew members each in two Mi-8s, two Su-34 pilots and a Su-35 pilot.
