Events from the year 2009 in the country of Russia.
Incumbents President: Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister: Vladimir Putin Minister of Defence: Anatoliy Serdyukov
Governors
Events January 15 January - 2009 Makhachkala Il-76 collision
February 15 February - New Star incident
May 12–16 May - Eurovision Song Contest 2009
June 3 June - 2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado 16 June - 1st BRIC summit 26 June-6 July - Caucasus 2009
July 6 July - The Obama–Medvedev Commission is announced.
August 17 August 2009 Nazran bombing 2009 Sayano–Shushenskaya power station accident
October 11 October - Moscow City Duma election, 2009
November 1 November - 2009 Yakutia Ilyushin Il-76 crash 27 November - 2009 Nevsky Express bombing
December 5 December - Lame Horse fire
Births
Deaths
January
4 January - Vladimir Repyev, 52, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1980) handball player. 8 January - Irène Mélikoff, 91, Russian-born French Turkologist. 13 January - Mikhail Donskoy, 61, Russian programmer, co-developer of the first world computer chess champion (Kaissa). Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, shot.
February
21 February - Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease.
October
20 October - Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.
Full date unknown Alexandra Ovchinnikova (1914–2009), road engineer and president of Yakutia(8 June 2009). Ушла из жизни бывший председатель Президиума Верховного Совета Якутской АССР Александра Овчинникова , SahkaNews (in Russian)
See also List of Russian films of 2009
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