Events
- February 4 - Second Chechen War: Bombing of Katyr-Yurt.
- February 5 - Second Chechen War: Novye Aldi massacre.
- February 6 - Second Chechen War: Battle of Grozny, Chechen capital Grozny falls to Russian troops.
- February 29–March 1 - Second Chechen War: Battle of Hill 776.
- March - Second Chechen War: Komsomolskoye massacre.
- March 1 - Second Chechen War: Grozny OMON fratricide incident.
- March 4–March 25 - Second Chechen War: Battle of Komsomolskoye.
- March 26 - Presidential elections: Vladimir Putin is elected President.
- March 29 - Second Chechen War: Zhani-Vedeno ambush.
- May 24 - The Russian Government threatens to bomb the Taliban in Afghanistan due to their support for Chechen rebels.
- July 2–July 3 - Second Chechen War: Chechen suicide attacks kill 43 Russian soldiers.
- August 12 - The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
- August 14 - Tsar Nicholas II and several members of his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- September 15–October 1 - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, winning 32 gold, 28 silver and 29 bronze medals.
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“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
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