2002 in Russia

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Events from the year 2002 in Russia.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Vladimir Putin
  • Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov

Events[]

  • 21 January - Commercial television station TV6 closed down by the Russian government.[1]
  • 8 February–24 February - Russia competes at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, and wins 5 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals.
  • 12 May - An accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome kills eight people and destroys a Buran spacecraft.[2]
  • 1 July - Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 from Moscow to Barcelona in Spain collides with DHL Flight 611 over Überlingen, Germany with 71 fatalities, mostly Russians.[3]
  • 25 September - Vitim event: a large meteorite crashes in the Vitim River basin in Siberia.[4]
  • 23 October - Moscow theater hostage crisis: 40 Chechen separatists seize a theatre in Moscow taking 850 hostages.[1]
  • 26 October - Moscow theater hostage crisis: Russian special forces storm the theatre killing the Chechens and over 100 hostages.[1]

Notable births[]

  • 16 April - Dayana Kirillova, singer

Notable deaths[]

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
  • 8 January - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
  • 19 September - Sergei Bodrov Jr., actor (born 1971)

See also[]

  • List of Russian films of 2002

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 652–653. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ^ Whitehouse, David (13 May 2002). "Russia's space dreams abandoned". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
  3. ^ "Investigation Report AX001-1-2/02 MAY 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
  4. ^ ""Cash plea for space impact study", BBC News". 8 October 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2008.

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