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This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Russia .
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February 3 – Alexey Abaza, Russian admiral and politician (b. 1853) March 14 – Robert Viren, Imperial Russian Navy admiral (b. 1857) May 27 – Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Imperial Russian Navy admiral and politician (b. 1843) July 15 – Andrey Selivanov, Russian general and politician (b. 1847) September 9 – Boris Stürmer, Russian ...
April 17 — Assassination of Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party and critic of President Vladimir Putin. [1] April 29 — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair holds a one-day summit with President Putin. Putin mocks Britain's and America's failure to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. [1]
The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
July 1: . The 2020 Russian constitutional referendum, Due to Yes Vote, The amendments include sweeping changes to the constitution, including allowing Putin to run again for two more six-year presidential terms, [17] constitutionally banning same-sex marriage, [18] enshrine the status of the Russian language, placing the constitution above international law, the minimal residency requirement ...
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The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.