Events from the year 2003 in Russia.
Incumbents President — Vladimir Putin Prime Minister — Mikhail Kasyanov
Governors
Events March March 23 — A referendum in the break-away republic of Chechnya approves a new constitution.
April April 17 — Assassination of Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party and critic of President Vladimir Putin. April 29 — 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.
May May 12 — 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.
July July 2 — 36-year-old billionaire oil baron Roman Abramovich buys the English football club Chelsea for £140million.
October October 25 — Arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chairman of the YUKOS oil company, on charges of fraud. October 27–30 — 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 December 4 — A Chechen suicide bomber killed 41 aboard a train near Yessentuki Station December 7 — President Putin's United Russia party wins the largest number of seats in the legislative election. December 31 — the end of the birth of the Russian Millennium generation
Births January 23 — Apollinariia Panfilova, pair skater March 7 — Polina Kostiukovich, Russian pair skater April 30 — Misha Smirnov, singer, producer-songwriter July 4 — Polina Bogusevich, singer
Deaths January
January 8 — Kir Nesis, marine biologist and malacologist (b. 1934) January 11 — Yuri Tishkov, professional footballer, sports agent and commentator (b. 1971) January 26 — Valeriy Brumel, high jumper (men's Olympic high jump medals: 1960 silver, 1964 gold) (b. 1942) January 29 Natalia Dudinskaya, prima ballerina (b. 1912) Yevgeniya Sidorova, alpine skier (b. 1930)
February
February 5 — Antonina Shuranova, stage, television and film actress (b. 1936) February 14 — Grigory Mkrtychan, ice hockey goalkeeper (b. 1925) February 19 — Igor Gorbachyov, actor, theater director and pedagogue (b. 1927) February 23 — Pavel Lebeshev, cinematographer (b. 1940)
March
March 5 — Dzhabrail Yamadayev, Chechen rebel field commander (b. 1970) March 8 — Eduard Izotov, film actor (b. 1936) March 10 — Marina Ladynina, stage and film actress (b. 1908) March 15 — Yevgeny Belyayev, cross-country skier (b. 1954) March 24 — Yevgeny Klevtsov, cyclist (b. 1929) March 28 — Aleksey Kuznetsov, cross-country skier (b. 1929) March 29 Kerim Kerimov, engineer and general (b. 1917) Vladimir Pikalov, general (b. 1924) March 30 — Valentin Pavlov, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1937) March 31 — Semyon Lipkin, writer, poet and literary translator (b. 1911)
April
April 6 — Aleksandr Fatyushin, film and theater actor (b. 1951) April 17 Sergei Yushenkov, politician (b. 1950) Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins (b. 1950) April 18 — Emil Loteanu, film director (b. 1936) April 24 — Yuri Kholopov, musicologist and educator (b. 1932) April 25 — Viktor Bushuev, weightlifter (b. 1933) April 29 — Vasily Tolstikov, 8th First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)
May
May 9 — Aleksey Medvedev, heavyweight weightlifter (b. 1927) May 12 — Anatoly Dobryakov, 1st Governor of Pskov Oblast (b. 1939) May 14 — Gennadiy Nikonov, firearm engineer (b. 1950) May 21 — Yaroslav Golovanov, journalist, writer and science communicator (b. 1932) May 28 — Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933) May 30 — Zagir Ismagilov, Bashkir composer and pedagogue (b. 1917)
June
June 1 — Yevgeny Matveyev, actor and film director (b. 1922) June 3 — Petre Mshvenieradze, water polo player (b. 1929) June 9 — German Sveshnikov, fencer (b. 1937) June 14 — Nikolai Figurovsky, film director, screenwriter, writer and professor at VGIK (b. 1923) June 21 — Sergei Vronsky, cinematographer (b. 1923) June 23 — Alexander Sidelnikov, ice hockey player (b. 1950)
July
July 3 — Yuri Shchekochikhin, investigative journalist, writer and liberal lawmaker (b. 1950) July 5 — Roman Lyashenko, ice hockey player (b. 1979) July 8 — Dimitri Sukhorukov, army general (b. 1922) July 11 — Stepan Chervonenko, diplomat (b. 1915) July 16 — Dmitri Vasilyev, actor, monarchist, antisemite and ultranationalist (b. 1945) July 20 — Vladimir Krantz, painter (b. 1913) July 24 — Iya Arepina, actress (b. 1930)
August
August 2 — Vladimir Golovanov, weightlifter (b. 1938) August 7 — Grigoriy Bondarevsky, professor, writer and historian (b. 1920) August 14 Viktor Ivanov, rower (b. 1930) Lev Kerbel, sculptor (b. 1917) August 20 — Igor Farkhutdinov, 3rd Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (b. 1950) August 21 — Vasily Borisov, rifle shooter (b. 1922) August 28 — Yury Saulsky, composer and author (b. 1928)
September
September 5 — Kir Bulychev, science fiction writer, critic and historian (b. 1934) September 9 — Aleksandr Moiseyev, basketball player (b. 1927) September 18 — Sergey Smirnov, track and field athlete (b. 1960) September 23 — Yuri Senkevich, physician and scientist (b. 1937)
October
October 7 — Viktor Leonov, navy officer (b. 1916) October 10 — Igor Borisov, rower (b. 1924) October 26 Elem Klimov, filmmaker (b. 1933) Leonid Filatov, actor, director, poet and pamphleteer (b. 1946)
November
November 3 Rasul Gamzatov, Avar poet (b. 1923) Yuri Falin, football player (b. 1937) November 11 — Andrei Bolibrukh, mathematician (b. 1950) November 22 — Yuri Khukhrov, realist painter, graphic artist and art teacher (b. 1932)
December
December 21 — Oleg Troyanovsky, diplomat (b. 1919) December 23 — Valentin Gavrilov, high jumper (b. 1946) December 24 — Eugene Maltsev, painter (b. 1929) December 26 — Ivan Petrov, bass opera singer (b. 1920) December 30 — Vladimir Bogomolov, writer (b. 1924) December 31 — German Apukhtin, footballer (b. 1936)
See also List of Russian films of 2003
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