Events from the year 1999 in Russia.
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Incumbents edit
- President: Boris Yeltsin (until 31 December), Vladimir Putin (from 31 December, acting President)
- Prime Minister:
- until 12 May: Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov
- 12 May-9 August: Sergei Stepashin
- starting 9 August: Vladimir Putin
- Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev
Events edit
March edit
- 19 March - 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing[1]
June edit
- June - Exercise Zapad-99
August edit
- August - Invasion of Dagestan
September edit
- September - Russian apartment bombings
October edit
- 7 October - Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack
- 21 October - Grozny ballistic missile attack
- 29 October - Baku–Rostov highway bombing
December edit
- December - Alkhan-Yurt massacre[2]
- 3 December - 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting[3]
- 19 December - 1999 Russian legislative election
Births edit
- 1 June - Dmitri Aliev, figure skater
- 17 June - Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player
Deaths edit
- 12 June - Sergey Khlebnikov, Olympic speed skater (b. 1955)
- 25 June - Yevgeny Morgunov, actor, film director and script writer (b. 1927)
- 2 July - Viktor Chebrikov, 6th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (b. 1923)
- 3 July - Igor Belsky, ballet dancer (b. 1925)
- 28 July - Georgy Rerberg, cinematographer (b. 1937)
- 22 August - Aleksandr Demyanenko, actor (b. 1937)
- 20 September - Raisa Gorbacheva, First Lady of the Soviet Union (b. 1932)
- 7 October - Genrikh Sapgir, writer (b. 1928)
- 18 November - Ivan Frolov, philosopher (b. 1929)
- 21 December - Sergey Nagovitsyn, singer (b. 1968)
- 26 December - Ivan Yakovlev, statesman (b. 1910)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Во Владикавказе завершился суд над организаторами взрыва на центральном рынке города". NEWSru.com (in Russian). 2003-12-15. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ "Russia/Chechnya". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ Wines, Michael (5 December 1999). "New Reports Back Claims of Attack on Chechen Refugee Convoy". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
External links edit
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