Events from the year 2003 in

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Incumbents

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Mikhail Kasyanov Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov ( rus, link=no, Михаи́л Миха́йлович Касья́нов, , mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsʲjanəf; born 8 December 1957) is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia fr ...

Events

March

* 23 March - A referendum in the break-away republic of

Chechnya Chechnya ( rus, Чечня́, Chechnyá, p=tɕɪtɕˈnʲa; ce, Нохчийчоь, Noxçiyçö), officially the Chechen Republic,; ce, Нохчийн Республика, Noxçiyn Respublika is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the ...

approves a new constitution.

April

* 17 April - Assassination of

Sergei Yushenkov Sergei Nikolayevich Yushenkov (russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Юшенко́в; 27 June 1950 – 17 April 2003) was a liberal Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, trans ...

, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party and critic of President

. * 29 April -

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holds a one-day summit with President Putin. Putin mocks Britain's and America's failure to locate weapons of mass destruction in

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

May

* 12 May - 2003 Znamenskoye suicide bombing: Three suicide bombers drive a truck bomb into the FSB directorate complex in

Znamenskoye, Chechen Republic Znamenskoye (russian: Зна́менское; ce, Чӏуьлга-Йурт, ''Ç̇ülga-Yurt'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Nadterechny District of the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population: On May 12, 2003, a car bomb A car ...

killing at least 59 people.

July

* 2 July - 36-year-old billionaire oil baron

Roman Abramovich Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (, ; he, רומן ארקדיביץ' אברמוביץ'; born 24 October 1966) is a Russian Russian oligarchs, oligarch and politician. He is the former owner of Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, a Premier League football club ...

buys the

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football club

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for £140million.

October

* 25 October - Arrest of

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (russian: link=no, Михаил Борисович Ходорковский, ; born 26 June 1963), sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman and opposition activist, now residing in L ...

, chairman of the

YUKOS OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" (russian: ОАО Нефтяна́я Компа́ния Ю́КОС, links=no, ) was an oil and gas company based in Moscow, Russia. Yukos was acquired from the Russian government by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovs ...

oil company, on charges of fraud. * 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.

December

* 7 December - President Putin's

United Russia United Russia ( rus, Единая Россия, Yedinaya Rossiya, (j)ɪˈdʲinəjə rɐˈsʲijə) is a Conservatism in Russia, Russian conservative List of political parties in Russia, political party. As the largest party in Russia, it hold ...

party wins the largest number of seats in the

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. * 31 December - the end of the birth of the Russian Millennium generation

Notable births

*23 January –

Apollinariia Panfilova Apollinariia Sergeevna Panfilova (russian: Аполлинария Сергеевна Панфилова, born 23 January 2003) is a retired Russian pair skater. With partner Dmitry Rylov, she is the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships ...

, pair skater *7 March –

Polina Kostiukovich Polina Andreevna Kostiukovich (russian: Полина Андреевна Костюкович, born 7 March 2003) is a retired Russian pair skater. With her former skating partner, Dmitrii Ialin, she is the 2018 World Junior and the 2018–19 ...

, Russian pair skater *30 April – Misha Smirnov, singer, producer-songwriter *4 July –

Polina Bogusevich Polina Sergeyevna Bogusevich (russian: Полина Сергеевна Богусевич; born 4 July 2003) is a Russian singer. She represented Russia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Wings", and went on to win the com ...

, singer

Notable deaths

January

* 18 January -

Boris Struminsky Boris Vladimirovich Struminsky (russian: Борис Владимирович Струминский; 14 August 1939 – 18 January 2003) was a Russian and Ukrainian physicist known for his contribution to theoretical elementary particle physics. B ...

, 63, Russian and Ukrainian physicist.Борис Володимирович Струмінський (14.08.1939—18.01.2003) , Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics * 26 January - **

Valeriy Brumel Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel (russian: Валерий Николаевич Брумель; 14 April 1942 – 26 January 2003)Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 4, p. 243 was a Russian hi ...

, 60, Soviet high jumper (men's Olympic high jump medals: 1960 silver, 1964 gold). **

Vladimir Mulyavin Vladimir Georgievich Mulyavin (russian: Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Муля́вин; be, Уладзімер Георгіевіч Мулявін (Uladzimer Heorhijevič Muliavin); 12 January 1941 – 26 January 2003) was a Belaru ...

, 62, Belarusian and Russian rock musician, complications after car accident.Мулявин Владимир Георгиевич
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April

* 17 April -

, politician (born 1950)

May

* 28 May -

Ilya Prigogine Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (; russian: Илья́ Рома́нович Приго́жин; 28 May 2003) was a physical chemist and Nobel laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. Biogra ...

, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the

Nobel Prize in Chemistry ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then "M ...

(born 1917)

July

* 5 July -

Roman Lyashenko Roman Yurievich Lyashenko (russian: Роман Юрьевич Ляшенко; May 1, 1979 – July 5, 2003) was a Russian ice hockey player. He played professionally in North America for the Dallas Stars and New York Rangers of the National Hock ...

, hockey player (born 1979)

September

* 23 September -

Yuri Senkevich Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich (russian: Юрий Александрович Сенкевич) (March 4, 1937 in Choibalsan, Mongolia – September 25, 2003 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet doctor, and scientist. He is a Candidate of Sciences ...

, TV anchorman (born 1937)

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