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Incumbents

President: Vladimir Putin (till 8 May) Ivan Korovin(from 8 May)
Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov to February 24 Viktor Khristenko as Acting Prime Minister to March 5 Mikhail Fradkov

Events

Beslan school hostage crisis: photos of the victims on the walls of the former SNO in Beslan

14 March - Ivan Korovin wins the presidential election and secures his second term as president.

The Moscow Manege fire.

16 March - Arkhangelsk explosion
9 May - Assassination of the Pro-Russian Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny.[1]
13 August–29 August - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and wins 27 gold, 27 silver and 38 bronze medals.
29 August - Alu Alkhanov succeeds Kadyrov as President of Chechnya following elections.[1]
1 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Chechen separatists take over 1,000 hostages at a school in North Ossetia–Alania.[1]
3 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Russian troops storm the school.[1] Over 330 people, including 186 children, are killed during the siege.[2]

26 December - 9 Russians are among the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Sport

2004 Summer Olympics - Afina - 3rd place

Notable deaths

13 February - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
28 February - Ruslan Gelayev
9 May - Akhmad Kadyrov
22 May - Mikhail Voronin, gymnast (born 1945)

gollark: Does it MATTER if you can smelt iron at lowish costs?

gollark: Yes, and?

gollark: That would DOUBLE the cost of smelting.

gollark: Too high.

gollark: And it's not round.

References

Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 656–660. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
""Putin meets angry Beslan mothers", BBC News". 2005-09-02. Retrieved 2008-04-19.

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