2019 in Russia

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The following lists events from the year 2019 in Russia.

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev

• 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.
• 28 May– in the village of Bolshevik in Volsk, Russia 15-year-old seventh-grader Daniil Pulkin threw two Molotov cocktails and hit a 12-year-old girl on the head with an axe, after which he fled the scene of the crime. The attacker was detained the same day.^[6][7]
• July–September – 2019 Moscow protests caused by the situation with the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections.
• 8 August – Nyonoksa radiation accident causes 5 immediate deaths.
• 15 August – Ural Airlines Flight 178 crashed, all on board survived.^[8]
• 7 September – Filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.^[9]

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• 21 May – Tengku Ismail Leon Petra, son of Muhammad V of Kelantan and Oksana Voevodina.^[10]

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• 3 February – Detsl, hip hop artist.^[11]
• 4 February – Evgeniy Aleksandrov, footballer (b. 1952)
• 8 February – Sergei Yursky, actor (b. 1935)
• 18 February – Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker (b. 1937).^[12]

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

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

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

• 3 July – Arseny Mironov, aeronautical engineer (b. 1917)^[13]

• 2 October – Evdokia Gaer educator, politician and human rights activist (b. 1934)^[14]

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