2002 in Russia
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Events from the year 2002 in Russia.
Incumbents
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.[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
- 8 January - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
- 19 September - Sergei Bodrov, Jr., actor (born 1971)
References
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