2003_in_Russia
2003 in Russia
List of events
Events from the year 2003 in Russia.
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March
April
- 17 April - Assassination of Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party and critic of President Vladimir Putin.[1]
- 29 April - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair holds a one-day summit with President Putin. Putin mocks Britain's and America's failure to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.[1]
May
- 12 May - 2003 Znamenskoye suicide bombing: Three suicide bombers drive a truck bomb into the FSB directorate complex in Znamenskoye, Chechen Republic killing at least 59 people.[2]
July
- 2 July - 36-year-old billionaire oil baron Roman Abramovich buys the English football club Chelsea for £140million.[3]
October
- 25 October - Arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chairman of the YUKOS oil company, on charges of fraud.[1]
- 27 October–30 October - The stock market falls by 16.5% as the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is seen as politically motivated leading to a loss in business confidence.[1]
December
- 7 December - President Putin's United Russia party wins the largest number of seats in the legislative election.[1]
- 31 December - the end of the birth of the Russian Millennium generation[4]
- 23 January – Apollinariia Panfilova, pair skater[5]
- 7 March – Polina Kostiukovich, Russian pair skater[6]
- 30 April – Misha Smirnov, singer, producer-songwriter[citation needed]
- 4 July – Polina Bogusevich, singer[7]
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Further information: Category:2003 deaths and Deaths in 2003
January
Main article: Deaths in January 2003
- 18 January - Boris Struminsky, 63, Russian and Ukrainian physicist.[8]
- 26 January -
- Valeriy Brumel, 60, Soviet high jumper (men's Olympic high jump medals: 1960 silver, 1964 gold).[9]
- Vladimir Mulyavin, 62, Belarusian and Russian rock musician, complications after car accident.[10]
April
Main article: Deaths in April 2003
- 17 April - Sergei Yushenkov, politician (born 1950)[citation needed]
May
Main article: Deaths in May 2003
- 28 May - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1917)[citation needed]
July
Main article: Deaths in July 2003
- 5 July - Roman Lyashenko, hockey player (born 1979)[citation needed]
September
Main article: Deaths in September 2003
- 23 September - Yuri Senkevich, TV anchorman (born 1937)[citation needed]
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 653–656. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ""Chechnya hit by new suicide attack" BBC News". 2003-05-14. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
- "Russian businessman buys Chelsea". BBC News. 2 July 2003.
- "Competition Results: Polina KOSTIUKOVICH / Dmitrii IALIN". International Skating Union.
- Herbert, Emily (13 October 2017). "Russia: Who Is Polina Bogusevich?". Eurovoix.
- Борис Володимирович Струмінський (14.08.1939—18.01.2003) (in Ukrainian), Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Frank Litsky (28 January 2003). "Valery Brumel Is Dead at 60; Russian Set High-Jump Marks". The New York Times. p. C 15. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- Мулявин Владимир Георгиевич Archived 2022-09-26 at the Wayback Machine. kino-teatr.ru
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