2003 in Russia

2003
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Russia

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Events from the year 2003 in Russia.

Incumbents

Events

March

  • 23 March - A referendum in the break-away republic of Chechnya approves a new constitution.[1]

April

May

July

October

  • 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]

December

Notable deaths

gollark: As far as I am aware it hasn't been demonstrated to work. There have been trials going on for a while.
gollark: You are going to have problems isolating for a year, especially if basically nobody else is.
gollark: It's worrying to me that the UK is seemingly doing quite badly, since I live there.
gollark: There's this nice COVID-19 display on a Minecraft server I'm on.
gollark: Oh, they're *quarantining* you for two weeks, right.

See also

References

  1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 653–656. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ""Chechnya hit by new suicide attack" BBC News". 2003-05-14. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
  3. "Russian businessman buys Chelsea". BBC News. 2 July 2003.
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