2019 in Russia

List of events

The following lists events from the year 2019 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev

Events

2019 Moscow protests

• February – The Russian military launches a nationwide tour to parade war trophies from its intervention in the Syrian civil war.^[1]
• 14 February – Michael Calvey, the founder of the Moscow-based private equity firm Baring Vostok Capital Partners, was arrested on suspicion of alleged embezzlement.^[2][3]
• 2–12 March – 2019 Winter Universiade, a multi-sport event in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.^[4]
• 6 March – the Russian Federal Assembly passed a law criminalising publication of online statements that are found "indecent" or "disrespectful" towards Russian state or government officials (including the president), stipulating fines of up to 100,000 roubles for first-time offenders, and 200,000 roubles or up to 15 days imprisonment for repeat.^[5]
• 5 May – Aeroflot Flight 1492 crashes and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, killing 41 people on board.
• July–September – 2019 Moscow protests caused by the situation with the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections.
• 8 August – Nyonoksa radiation accident caused 5 immediate deaths.
• 15 August – Ural Airlines Flight 178 crashed, all on board survived.^[6]
• 7 September – Filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and 66 others have been released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.^[7]

Births

• 21 May – Tengku Ismail Leon Petra, son of Muhammad V of Kelantan and Oksana Voevodina.^[8]

Deaths

February

• 3 February – Detsl, hip hop artist.^[9]
• 4 February – Evgeniy Aleksandrov, footballer (b. 1952)
• 8 February – Sergei Yursky, actor (b. 1935)
• 18 February – Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker (b. 1937).^[10]

March

• 1 March – Zhores Alferov, scientist (b. 1930)

April

• 27 April – Aleksey Lebed, politician (b. 1955)

May

• 9 May – Sergey Dorenko, journalist (b. 1959)

July

• 3 July – Arseny Mironov, aeronautical engineer (b. 1917)^[11]

See also

References

1. "Russia's military shows off hardware seized in Syria". Reuters. 27 February 2019.
2. Amy Knight (March 4, 2019). "The Price of Doing Business in Russia: Prison". New York Review of Books. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
3. "Russia charges US investor with fraud in high-profile case". BBC. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
4. mathieu (2019-02-28). "Just one day to the big show – preview to Winter Universiade 2019". FISU. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
5. Bennetts, Marc (6 March 2019). "Russia passes law to jail people for 15 days for 'disrespecting' government". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
6. Reporter, Brendan Cole Senior News (2019-08-15). "Russian Plane With 234 On Board Crash-lands in Cornfield After Bird Strike". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
7. "FILMMAKER OLEG SENTSOV AND OTHERS FREED IN PRISONER SWAP", Amnesty International/USA, retrieved Sep 7, 2019
8. "Malaysia's Sultan Muhammad V has baby boy with Russian wife". South China Morning Post. 2019-06-04. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
9. Михеева, Ирина (February 3, 2019). "Агент назвал причину смерти Децла". Известия. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019.
10. Shornikov, A. M. "Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна" [Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna]. Chuvash encyclopedia [cv; ru; uk] (in Russian). Retrieved 29 October 2022.
11. Знаменская, Эла (July 3, 2019). "Прощание с легендой: не стало Арсения Дмитриевич Миронова". Archived from the original on July 3, 2019.