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Russian border guards also guard the borders of Armenia with Turkey and Iran. [9] [10] On 9 May 2024, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that Russian border guards will continue to serve on Armenia's borders with Iran and Turkey, at the request of the Armenian side. [11]
For foreign tourists to visit the zone a permit issued by the local FSB department is required. [2] The restricted access zone (generally 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) width, but running as much as 90 kilometres (56 mi) deep along the Estonian border) was established in the Soviet Union in 1934, and later expanded, at times including vast territories.
A nearly four-hour firefight broke out, destroying the border post and leaving two Vostok militants dead and several wounded on both sides. The separatists retreated across the Russian border at Kuybyshevo, where they were disarmed, interrogated, and imprisoned by Russian border guards. [3]
The Freedom of Russia legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps have previously claimed responsibility for other cross-border raids into Russia from Ukraine. (Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy ...
Russian border guards have removed navigation buoys from the Estonian side of a river separating the two countries, the Baltic nation said on Thursday, adding that it would seek an explanation as ...
Ukraine caught Russia — as well as its Western allies — off guard on August 6 by launching a surprise attack on the Kursk border region, grabbing around 386 miles of territory in a matter of days.
The purpose of the formation of the Coast Guard of the FSB Border Service of Russia is to create a modern comprehensive and multifunctional system for protecting the national interests of Russia in the border area on the border area (sea coast, inland sea waters and the territorial sea), in the exclusive economic zone and on the continental ...
On the night of 26–27 September 2007, during the border operation "Krab-2007", a Russian border guard aircraft detected a fishing vessel in the Sea of Okhotsk with its transponder turned off, no identification marks and flag, and also did not respond to communication from the border guard. Dzerzhinskiy was sent to inspect the vessel.