- 2003 in Russia
Events from the year
2003 inRussia .Events
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23 March - A referendum in the break-away republic ofChechnya approves a new constitution.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=653–656]
*17 April - Assassination ofSergei Yushenkov , co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party and critic of PresidentVladimir Putin .
*29 April -Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair holds a one day summit with President Putin. Putin mocks Britain's and America's failure to locate weapons of mass destruction inIraq .
*12 May -2003 Znamenskoye suicide bombing : Three suicide bombers drive a truck bomb into the FSB directorate complex inZnamenskoye, Chechen Republic killing at least 59 people. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3027343.stm|title="Chechnya hit by new suicide attack" BBC News|date=2003-05-14|accessdate=2008-04-17]
*25 October - Arrest ofMikhail Khodorkovsky , chairman of theYUKOS 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.
*7 December - President Putin'sUnited Russia party wins the largest number of seats in the legsilative election.Deaths
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26 January -Valeriy Brumel , athlete (born1942 )
*17 April -Sergei Yushenkov , politician (born1950 )
*28 May -Ilya Prigogine , Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Chemistry (born1917 )
*5 July -Roman Lyashenko , hockey player (born1979 )
*23 September -Yuri Senkevich , TV anchorman (born1937 )References
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