Events from the year 2002 in

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Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...

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Mikhail Kasyanov Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov ( rus, Михаи́л Миха́йлович Касья́нов, , mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsʲjanəf, links=no; born 8 December 1957) is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia fr ...

Events

* 21 January – Commercial television station TV6 closed down by the Russian government. * 8 February–24 February –

competes at the

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, and wins 5 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals. * 4 March – ''

Good Night, Little Ones! ''Good Night, Little Ones!'' () is a long-running Russian-language children's television program. Continuously broadcast since 1964 (premiered during the Soviet era), it airs on the Carousel channel. The program's presenters have included Vale ...

'' airs its first episode on its current home, Telekanal Rossiya, still airing on the

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today. * 12 May – An accident at the

Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. All Russian Human spaceflight, crewed spaceflights are l ...

kills eight people and destroys a Buran spacecraft. * 1 July – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 from

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collides with DHL Flight 611 over

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with 71 fatalities, mostly Russians. * 25 September – Vitim event: a large meteorite crashes in the

Vitim River The Vitim (; , ; , ; Buryat and , ''Vitim'') is a major tributary of the Lena. Its source is east of Lake Baikal, at the confluence of rivers Vitimkan from the west and China from the east. The Vitim flows first south, bends eastwards and the ...

basin in

Siberia Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...

. * 23 October –

Moscow theater hostage crisis The Moscow theater hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater in Moscow by Chechen terrorists on 23 October 2002, resulting in the taking of 912 hostages. The attackers, led by Movs ...

: 40 Chechen separatists seize a theatre in

taking 850 hostages. * 26 October – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Russian special forces storm the theatre killing the Chechens and over 100 hostages. * 1 December – Turbomilk, a graphic design company is founded in

Samara Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev (1935–1991), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with a population of over 1.14 ...

Notable births

* 16 April –

Dayana Kirillova Dayana Yurievna Kirillova ( rus, Дая́на Юрьевна Кири́ллова, p=dɐˈjanə kʲɪˈrʲiləvə; born 16 April 2002) is a Russian singer. She is a multiple laureate of Russian and international song contests, the Russian repre ...

, singer

Notable deaths

* 8 January – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, physicist,

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...

laureate (born 1916) * 10 March - Natalia Derzhavina, actress (born 1942) * 1 Jule - Mikhail Krug, singer (born 1962) * 19 September – Sergei Bodrov Jr., actor (born 1971)

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