2002 in Russia

2002 in Russia

Events from the year 2002 in Russia.

Events

* 21 January - Commercial television station TV6 closed down by the Russian government.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=652–653]
* 8 February–24 February - Russia competes at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, and wins 5 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals.
* 12 May - An accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome kills eight people and destroys a Buran spacecraft. [ cite news | publisher=BBC | title=Russia's space dreams abandoned | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1985631.stm | work=bbc.co.uk | accessdate=2008-04-15 | date=2002-05-13 | last=Whitehouse | first=David ]
* 1 July - Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 from Moscow to Barcelona in Spain crashes in Überlingen, Germany with 71 fatalities.cite web |url=http://www.bfu-web.de/cln_003/nn_53140/EN/Publications/Investigation_20Report/2002/Report__02__AX001-1-2___C3_9Cberlingen__Report,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/Report_02_AX001-1-2_%C3%9Cberlingen_Report.pdf |title=Investigation Report AX001-1-2/02 MAY 2004 |accessdate=2008-04-15]
* 25 September - Vitim event: a large meteorite crashes in the Vitim River basin in Siberia. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2309117.stm|title="Cash plea for space impact study", BBC News|accessdate=2008-04-15]
* 23 October - Moscow theater hostage crisis: 40 Chechen separatists seize a theatre in Moscow taking 850 hostages.
* 26 October - Moscow theater hostage crisis: Russian special forces storm the theatre killing the Chechens and over 100 hostages.

Deaths

* January 8 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
* September 19 - Sergei Bodrov, Jr., actor (born 1971)

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