List of events
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.
April
May
July
October
- 25 October - Arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chairman of the YUKOS oil company, on charges of fraud.
- 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.
December
- 7 December - President Putin's United Russia party wins the largest number of seats in the legislative election.
- 31 December - the end of the birth of the Russian Millennium generation
Notable births
Notable deaths
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January
- 18 January - Boris Struminsky, 63, Russian and Ukrainian physicist.
- 26 January -
April
May
July
September
- 23 September - Yuri Senkevich, TV anchorman (born 1937)[citation needed]
See also
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Revolution and Civil War | |
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Soviet Union | |
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Russian Federation | |
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States with limited recognition |
- Abkhazia
- Artsakh
- Kosovo
- Northern Cyprus
- South Ossetia
- Transnistria
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Dependencies and other entities |
- Åland
- Faroe Islands
- Gibraltar
- Guernsey
- Isle of Man
- Jersey
- Svalbard
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