2003 in Russia explained

Events from the year 2003 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President - Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister - Mikhail Kasyanov

Events

March

• 23 March - A referendum in the break-away republic of Chechnya approves a new constitution.^[1]

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

• 4 December: A Chechen suicide bomber killed 41 aboard a train near Yessentuki Station^[4]
• 7 December - President Putin's United Russia party wins the largest number of seats in the legislative election.
• 31 December - the end of the birth of the Russian Millennium generation^[5]

Notable births

• 23 January – Apollinariia Panfilova, pair skater
• 7 March – Polina Kostiukovich, Russian pair skater^[6]
• 30 April – Misha Smirnov, singer, producer-songwriter
• 4 July – Polina Bogusevich, singer^[7]

Notable deaths

January

See 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

See main article: Deaths in April 2003.

• 17 April - Sergei Yushenkov, politician (born 1950)

May

See main article: Deaths in May 2003.

• 28 May - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1917)

July

See main article: Deaths in July 2003.

• 5 July - Roman Lyashenko, hockey player (born 1979)

September

See main article: Deaths in September 2003.

• 23 September - Yuri Senkevich, TV anchorman (born 1937)

See also

• List of Russian films of 2003

Notes and References

1. Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8. 653–656.
2. News: "Chechnya hit by new suicide attack" BBC News. 2003-05-14. 2008-04-17.
3. News: Russian businessman buys Chelsea . BBC News . 2 July 2003.
4. Web site: 2003-12-06 . Russian train bomb kills 41 before elections . 2024-05-01 . Times of Malta . en-gb.
5. News: Are you a millennial? Or maybe X or Z? How recruiters and marketers are using generational theory. TASS. 6 August 2019.
6. Web site: Competition Results: Polina KOSTIUKOVICH / Dmitrii IALIN . International Skating Union .
7. Web site: Russia: Who Is Polina Bogusevich?. 13 October 2017. Eurovoix. Herbert. Emily.
8. Борис Володимирович Струмінський (14.08.1939—18.01.2003), Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics
9. News: Frank Litsky . Frank Litsky . Valery Brumel Is Dead at 60; Russian Set High-Jump Marks . subscription . 15 August 2021 . . 28 January 2003 . C 15.
10. http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/star/19196/bio/ Мулявин Владимир Георгиевич