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2000 In Russia
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Russia. Incumbents *President of the Russian Federation, President: Vladimir Putin (from May 7, acting President until May 7) *Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister: Vladimir Putin (until May 7), Mikhail Kasyanov (from May 7) 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 (1999–2000), Battle of Grozny, Chechen capital Grozny falls to Russian troops. *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 4–25 — Second Chechen War: Battle of Komsomolskoye. *March 26 — 2000 Russian presidential election, Presidential elections: Vladimir Putin is elected president. *March 29 — Second Chechen War: Zhani-Vedeno ambush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if non-existent year zero was counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (For further information, see century and millennium.) The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo-, kilo" which means "thousand"). The year 2000 was the subject of Year 2000 problem, Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
