2004 in Russia

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Events from the year 2004 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President - Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister - Mikhail Kasyanov until February 24, Viktor Khristenko as Acting Prime Minister until March 5, Mikhail Fradkov

Events

Beslan school hostage crisis: photos of the victims on the walls of the former SNO in Beslan

• 14 March - Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election and secures his second term as president.
• 9 May - Assassination of the Pro-Russian Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny.^[1]
• 13 August–29 August - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and wins 27 gold, 27 silver and 38 bronze medals.
• 29 August - Alu Alkhanov succeeds Kadyrov as President of Chechnya following elections.^[1]
• 1 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Chechen separatists take over 1,000 hostages at a school in North Ossetia–Alania.^[1]
• 3 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Russian troops storm the school.^[1] Over 330 people, including 186 children, are killed during the siege.^[2]

Notable deaths

This section requires expansion.

• 22 May - Mikhail Voronin, gymnast (born 1945)

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