The following lists events from the year 2019 in Russia.
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- 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.
- 28 May– in the village of Bolshevik in Volsk, Russia 15-year-old seventh-grader Daniil Pulkin threw two Molotov cocktails and hit a 12-year-old girl on the head with an axe, after which he fled the scene of the crime. The attacker was detained the same day.[6][7]
- 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.[8]
- 7 September – Filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and 66 others have been released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.[9]
Births
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- 21 May – Tengku Ismail Leon Petra, son of Muhammad V of Kelantan and Oksana Voevodina.[10]
Deaths
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February
edit- 3 February – Detsl, hip hop artist.[11]
- 4 February – Evgeniy Aleksandrov, footballer (b. 1952)
- 8 February – Sergei Yursky, actor (b. 1935)
- 18 February – Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker (b. 1937).[12]
March
edit- 1 March – Zhores Alferov, scientist (b. 1930)
April
edit- 27 April – Aleksey Lebed, politician (b. 1955)
May
edit- 9 May – Sergey Dorenko, journalist (b. 1959)
July
edit- 3 July – Arseny Mironov, aeronautical engineer (b. 1917)[13]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "Russia's military shows off hardware seized in Syria". Reuters. 27 February 2019.
- ^ Amy Knight (March 4, 2019). "The Price of Doing Business in Russia: Prison". New York Review of Books. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
- ^ "Russia charges US investor with fraud in high-profile case". BBC. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ mathieu (2019-02-28). "Just one day to the big show – preview to Winter Universiade 2019". FISU. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
- ^ Bennetts, Marc (6 March 2019). "Russia passes law to jail people for 15 days for 'disrespecting' government". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ "7th grader who attacked school attempts to commit suicide". Crime Russia. May 25, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Russian Teenager Attacks Classmate With Axe, Cites Past School Shootings – Reports". The Moscow Times. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ Reporter, Brendan Cole Senior News (2019-08-15). "Russian Plane With 234 On Board Crash-lands in Cornfield After Bird Strike". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
- ^ "FILMMAKER OLEG SENTSOV AND OTHERS FREED IN PRISONER SWAP", Amnesty International/USA, retrieved Sep 7, 2019
- ^ "Malaysia's Sultan Muhammad V has baby boy with Russian wife". South China Morning Post. 2019-06-04. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
- ^ Михеева, Ирина (February 3, 2019). "Агент назвал причину смерти Децла". Известия. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019.
- ^ Shornikov, A. M. "Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна" [Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna]. Chuvash encyclopedia (in Russian). Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ^ Знаменская, Эла (July 3, 2019). "Прощание с легендой: не стало Арсения Дмитриевич Миронова". Archived from the original on July 3, 2019.