2019 in Russia explained

The following lists events from the year 2019 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President

Vladimir Putin

• Prime Minister

Dmitry Medvedev

Events

• February  - The Russian military launches a nationwide tour to parade war trophies from its intervention in the Syrian civil war.^[1]
• 14 February – Michael Calvey, the founder of the Moscow-based private equity firm Baring Vostok Capital Partners, was arrested on suspicion of alleged embezzlement.^{[2] [3]}
• 2–12 March  - 2019 Winter Universiade, a multi-sport event in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.^[4]
• 6 March  - the Russian Federal Assembly passed a law criminalising publication of online statements that are found "indecent" or "disrespectful" towards Russian state or government officials (including the president), stipulating fines of up to 100,000 roubles for first-time offenders, and 200,000 roubles or up to 15 days imprisonment for repeat.^[5]
• 5 May  - Aeroflot Flight 1492 crashes and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, killing 41 people on board.
• July–September – 2019 Moscow protests caused by the situation with the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections.
• 8 August  - Nyonoksa radiation accident caused 5 immediate deaths.
• 15 August  - Ural Airlines Flight 178 crashed, all on board survived.^[6]
• 7 September  - Filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and 66 others have been released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.

Births

• 21 May – Tengku Ismail Leon Petra, son of Muhammad V of Kelantan and Oksana Voevodina.^[7]

Deaths

February

• 3 February – Detsl, hip hop artist.^[8]
• 4 February – Evgeniy Aleksandrov, footballer (b. 1952)
• 8 February – Sergei Yursky, actor (b. 1935)
• 18 February – Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker (b. 1937).^[9]

March

See main article: Deaths in March 2019.

• 1 March – Zhores Alferov, scientist (b. 1930)

April

• 27 April – Aleksey Lebed, politician (b. 1955)

May

See main article: Deaths in May 2019.

• 9 May – Sergey Dorenko, journalist (b. 1959)

July

See main article: Deaths in July 2019.

• 3 July – Arseny Mironov, aeronautical engineer (b. 1917)^[10]

Notes and References

1. News: 27 February 2019. Reuters. Russia's military shows off hardware seized in Syria.
2. Web site: Amy Knight . March 4, 2019 . The Price of Doing Business in Russia: Prison . March 4, 2019 . New York Review of Books.
3. News: 21 February 2019 . Russia charges US investor with fraud in high-profile case . 2 September 2019 . BBC.
4. Web site: mathieu . 2019-02-28 . Just one day to the big show – preview to Winter Universiade 2019 . 2024-07-19 . FISU . en-US.
5. News: Bennetts . Marc . Russia passes law to jail people for 15 days for 'disrespecting' government . 19 October 2019 . The Guardian . 6 March 2019.
6. Web site: Reporter . Brendan Cole Senior News . 2019-08-15 . Russian Plane With 234 On Board Crash-lands in Cornfield After Bird Strike . 2024-07-19 . Newsweek . en.
7. Web site: 2019-06-04 . Malaysia’s Sultan Muhammad V has baby boy with Russian wife . 2024-07-19 . South China Morning Post . en.
8. Web site: Агент назвал причину смерти Децла. https://web.archive.org/web/20190203143800/https://iz.ru/841330/2019-02-03/agent-rasskazal-podrobnosti-smerti-detcla. dead. Ирина. Михеева. February 3, 2019. February 3, 2019. Известия.
9. Encyclopedia: Shornikov. A. M.. Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна. Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna. . ru. 29 October 2022.
10. Web site: Прощание с легендой: не стало Арсения Дмитриевич Миронова. https://web.archive.org/web/20190703173245/http://www.zhukvesti.ru/articles/detail/7559/. dead. Эла. Знаменская. July 3, 2019. July 3, 2019.