Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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2022- | Eastern European country attacked by Russia on Feb 24 | Ukraine | 91%
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1999-2009 | Autonomous Republic in the Caucasus, theater of a Russian millitary operation, killing at least 7500 soldiers and 25'000 civilians | Chechnya | 82%
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2014 | Peninsula invaded and later annexed by Russia | Crimea | 82%
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2008 | Caucasian country invaded by Russia during a conflict between central government and a separatist Russian-backed region. Several hundred people are killed. | Georgia | 82%
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2019- | Russian mercenaries of the infamous Wagner group (which is said to be funded by a businessman with close links to Putin) intervene in the civil war of this country in North Africa | Libya | 73%
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2020 | Russian opposition leader poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent (Alexei) | Navalny | 73%
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2023 | Mercenary leader killed in a mysterious plane crash on Aug 23, weeks after he revolted against Putin (Yevgeny) | Prigozhin | 73%
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2014 | Conflict escalates between the central government of an Eastern European country and these two separatist "people's republics" backed by Russian military (name either) | Donetsk / Luhansk | 64%
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2015- | Russian troops intervene in the civil war of this Middle Eastern country on behalf of its dictator | Syria | 64%
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1999 | Bombs explode in four of these structures in Russia, killing more than 300 people | Apartment blocks | 55%
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2002 | What type of building is "Dubrovka" where terrorists take 850 people hostage? The attempt to free them results in the death of 130. | Theater | 55%
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2019 | European capital where Chechen-Georgian militant Zelimkhan Khangoshvili is assassinated in "Kleiner Tiergarten" by a Russian secret agent | Berlin | 45%
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2018 | UK city where former Russian secret agent Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia are poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent. They survive but uninvolved Dawn Sturgess dies months later. | Salisbury | 45%
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2006 | Former secret agent and defector fatally poisoned with Polonium in London (Alexander) | Litvinenko | 36%
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2015 | Liberal Russian politician assassinated near the Kremlin (Boris) | Nemtsov | 36%
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2004 | Caucasian site of a school tragedy. More than 300 people die when special forces try to liberate 1100 people taken hostage by terrorists. | Beslan | 27%
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2007 | Investigative journalist assassinated in the elevator of her Moscow apartment block (Anna) | Politkovskaya | 27%
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