2000 in Russia

Events from the year 2000 in Russia.

Events

* February 4 - Second Chechen War: Bombing of Katyr-Yurt.
* February 5 - Second Chechen War: Novye Aldi massacre.
* February 6 - Second Chechen War: Battle of Grozny, Chechen capital Grozny falls to Russian troops. cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=649–650]
* February 29–March 1 - Second Chechen War: Battle of Hill 776.
* March - Second Chechen War: Komsomolskoye massacre.
* March 1 - Second Chechen War: Grozny OMON fratricide incident.
* March 4–March 25 - Second Chechen War: Battle of Komsomolskoye.
* March 26 - Presidential elections: Vladimir Putin is elected President.
* March 29 - Second Chechen War: Zhani-Vedeno ambush.
* May 24 - The Russian Government threatens to bomb the Taliban in Afghanistan due to their support for Chechen rebels.
* July 2–July 3 - Second Chechen War: Chechen suicide attacks kill 43 Russian soldiers.
* August 12 - The "Russian submarine K-141 Kursk" sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
* August 14 - Tsar Nicholas II and several members of his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
* September 15–October 1 - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, winning 32 gold, 28 silver and 29 bronze medals.

Deaths

* January 1 - Alexey Vyzmanavin, Chess grandmaster (born 1960)
* February 20 - Anatoly Sobchak, politician (born 1937)
* February 29 - Nikita Moiseyev, mathematician (born 1917)
* March 9 - Artyom Borovik, journalist and media magnate (born 1960)
* March - William Pokhlyobkin, writer (born 1923)
* April 19 - Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin, writer (born 1913)
* May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (born 1933)
* May 24 - Oleg Yefremov, actor (born 1927)
* June 2 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, ophthalmologist and politician (born 1927)
* July 24 - Anatoli Firsov, ice hockey player (born 1941)
* August 1 - Galina Sergeyeva, actress (born 1914)
* November 20 - Nikolay Dollezhal, engineer (born 1899)
* David Klyshko, physicist (born 1929)

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