2003 in Russia

Events from the year 2003 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President - Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister - Mikhail Kasyanov

Events

• 23 March - A referendum in the break-away republic of Chechnya approves a new constitution.^[1]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 7 December - President Putin's United Russia party wins the largest number of seats in the legsilative election.^[1]

Notable deaths

• 26 January - Valeriy Brumel, athlete (born 1942)
• 17 April - Sergei Yushenkov, politician (born 1950)
• 28 May - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1917)
• 5 July - Roman Lyashenko, hockey player (born 1979)
• 23 September - Yuri Senkevich, TV anchorman (born 1937)

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