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Decades:

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2000s
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Incumbents

President: Boris Yeltsin to May 7 Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister: Vladimir Putin to May 7 Mikhail Kasyanov

Events

February

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. ^[1]
February 29–March 1 - Second Chechen War: Battle of Hill 776.

March

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.^[2]
March 29 - Second Chechen War: Zhani-Vedeno ambush.

May

May 24 - The Russian Government threatens to bomb the Taliban in Afghanistan due to their support for Chechen rebels. ^[1]

July

July 2–July 3 - Second Chechen War: Chechen suicide attacks kill 43 Russian soldiers. ^[1]

August

August 12 - The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board. ^[1]
August 14 - Tsar Nicholas II and several members of his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
August 28 - Moscow's Ostankino Tower set ablaze by fire caused by a short circuit.^[3]

September

September 15–October 1 - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, winning 32 gold, 28 silver and 29 bronze medals.

December

December 25 - Russia changes their national anthem back to the old Soviet Union one, with newer lyrics.

Notable births

February 9 - Serafima Sakhanovich, figure skater
April 12 - Maria Sotskova, figure skater

Notable deaths

Artyom Borovik

January 6 - 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)

References

1 2 3 4 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 649–650. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ McGuinness, Ross (March 16, 2009). "Metro". p. 30.
↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20001002030519/http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/27/moscow.fire/index.html

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2000 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

2000 in Europe

Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria

Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey

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