2002 in Russia
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Events from the year 2002 in Russia.
[edit] Events
- 21 January - Commercial television station TV6 closed down by the Russian government.[1]
- 8 February–24 February - Russia competes at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, and wins 5 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals.
- 12 May - An accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome kills eight people and destroys a Buran spacecraft.[2]
- 1 July - Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 from Moscow to Barcelona in Spain crashes in Überlingen, Germany with 71 fatalities.[3]
- 25 September - Vitim event: a large meteorite crashes in the Vitim River basin in Siberia.[4]
- 23 October - Moscow theater hostage crisis: 40 Chechen separatists seize a theatre in Moscow taking 850 hostages.[1]
- 26 October - Moscow theater hostage crisis: Russian special forces storm the theatre killing the Chechens and over 100 hostages.[1]
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
- September 19 - Sergei Bodrov, Jr., actor (born 1971)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 652–653. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Whitehouse, David. "Russia's space dreams abandoned", bbc.co.uk, BBC, 2002-05-13. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ Investigation Report AX001-1-2/02 MAY 2004. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ "Cash plea for space impact study", BBC News. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
