On March 31, twin blasts rocked the town of Kizlyar in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan, killing at least 12 people, just two days after two metro suicide bombings in Moscow.
On April 1, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan following recent terrorist attacks in Moscow and the Dagestani town of Kizlyar. He called for tougher action against global terrorism.
On April 2, a Soyuz-FG rocket bearing a Soyuz TMA-18 piloted spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) from Russia's Baikonur space centre. The spacecraft will deliver members of ISS Expedition 23 - Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson - to the orbital station on April 4.
On March 31, St. Petersburg's Severnaya Verf shipyard floated out the Project 20380 Soobrazitelny corvette. The warship, featuring stealth technology, is designed to protect Russia’s coastal waters and to provide artillery support for beach landings.
On March 30, the Large Hadron Collider recovered from another mishap caused by an unexpected spring-time thunderstorm and smashed protons head on at a record-breaking 7 teraelectron volt, exceeding its previous achievement three-fold.
On March 30, the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered cruiser, the flagship of the Northern Fleet, set sail from its base in Severomorsk on a tour-of-duty in the Indian Ocean
On April 1, Russian statistics service Rosstat started a nationwide census in the remote area of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region.
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