2009 in Russia

Events from the year 2009 in the country of Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Dmitry Medvedev
• Prime Minister: Vladimir Putin
• Minister of Defence: Anatoliy Serdyukov

Events

January

• 15 January - 2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision

February

• 15 February - New Star incident

May

• 12–16 May - Eurovision Song Contest 2009

June

• 3 June - 2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado
• 16 June - 1st BRIC summit
• 26 June-6 July - Caucasus 2009

July

• 6 July - The Obama–Medvedev Commission is announced.

August

• 17 August
• 2009 Nazran bombing
• 2009 Sayano–Shushenskaya power station accident

October

• 11 October - Moscow City Duma election, 2009

November

• 1 November - 2009 Yakutia Ilyushin Il-76 crash
• 27 November - 2009 Nevsky Express bombing

December

• 5 December - Lame Horse fire

Births

Deaths

January

• 4 January - Vladimir Repyev, 52, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1980) handball player.
• 8 January - Irène Mélikoff, 91, Russian-born French Turkologist.
• 13 January -
• Mikhail Donskoy, 61, Russian programmer, co-developer of the first world computer chess champion (Kaissa).
• Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, shot.

February

• 21 February - Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease.

October

• 20 October - Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.

Full date unknown

• Alexandra Ovchinnikova (1914–2009), road engineer and president of Yakutia

See also

• List of Russian films of 2009

References

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