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List of events
Events in the year 2011 in
Russia .
2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash :
Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev lays flowers in front of the remains of the rear stabilizer of the Yak-42 that carried the
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey squad.
January 1 -
Kolavia Flight 348 : Four people are killed and around 40 injured after a passenger plane explodes in
Surgut in eastern
Russia .[
citation needed ]
January 22 - At least two people are killed in a blaze at a shopping centre in the southwest
Russian city of
Ufa .
[1]
January 24 -
2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing : At least 35 people are killed and 130 injured after a suicide bombing at
Domodedovo International Airport in the
Russian capital
Moscow .
[2]
January 26 -
Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev fires top airport security officials, two days after the
suicide bombing at
Moscow 's
Domodedovo International Airport .
[3]
February 9 - Serial blasts rock
Russia 's
Grozny , at least five people are wounded.
[4]
February 28 -
Rosatom , the
Russian state nuclear energy corporation, explains that the
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant has been delayed in opening due to damage to the
nuclear reactor 's cooling pumps.
[5]
March 1 - As part of the
Russian police reform , the Russian law enforcers' name was changed from "
Militsiya " (militia) to "Politsiya" (police).
March 27 - Russia switching to permanent
daylight saving time (DST) under a decree President
Dmitry Medvedev signed a month earlier.
[6]
April 18 - The
Movement Against Illegal Immigration was banned by the Moscow City Court.
May 2 - The
UN Security Council fails to agree a statement to condemn the killing of Syrian protesters, as
Russia and
China block a statement proposed by
Britain ,
France ,
Germany and
Portugal that would have condemned the violence, which has led to hundreds of dead, and backed calls for an independent investigation.
[7]
May 4 -
Russian security forces kill Doger Sevdet, an
al-Qaeda emissary who fought alongside
Chechen insurgents , in the northern
Caucasus region of
Russia .
[8]
May 6 -
Russia launches an urgent rescue mission after the
nuclear-powered icebreaker
Taymyr in its
fleet develops a nuclear leak in the frozen seas of the
Arctic and was forced to abandon its mission.
[9]
May 6 - A court in
Russia sentences ultranationalist Nikita Tikhonov to life imprisonment for the murder of human rights lawyer
Stanislav Markelov and journalist
Anastasia Baburova in 2009.[
citation needed ]
May 19 - The
Eurasian Economic Community , led by
Russia , offers
Belarus a
$ 3 billion bailout package.
[10]
May 30 - Documents discovered in a
Russian archive suggest that
Adolf Hitler ordered
Rudolf Hess to go to the
United Kingdom to negotiate with
Winston Churchill over a
World War II peace deal in 1941.
[11]
June 2 - 42 people are injured and 13,000 people evacuated from settlements in
Russia 's
Udmurt Republic following an
ammo depot fire.[
citation needed ]
June 3 - 57 people are injured, and 28,000 people have been forced to evacuate, following an explosion at an army
munitions depot in
Russia 's western
Ural Mountains region.
[12]
July 20 - Beer is legally reclassified from a foodstuff to an alcoholic drink so that its sale will be more strongly controlled.
[13]
September 7 -
2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash : A
Yak Service
Yak-42 carrying the
KHL hockey team
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashes near
Yaroslavl , Russia, killing 44.
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Lyudmila Gurchenko
March 4 -
Mikhail Simonov , 81, Russian
aircraft designer , chief designer of the
Sukhoi Design Bureau (1983–2011), after long illness.
[23]
March 13 -
Vitaly Vulf , 80, Russian theater critic and television host.
[24]
March 14 -
Eduard Gushchin , 70, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (
1968 ) athlete.
[25]
March 21 -
Nikolai Andrianov , 58, Russian gymnast, most medaled athlete at the
1976 Summer Olympics , after long illness.
[26]
March 25 -
Pavel Leonov , 90, Russian
naïve artist .
[27]
March 26 -
Alexander Barykin , 59, Russian musician, heart attack.
[28]
March 30 -
Lyudmila Gurchenko , 75, Russian film actress and singer,
People's Artist of the USSR .
[29]
March 31 -
Vassili Kononov , 88, Russian military veteran and war criminal.
[30]
April 1 -
George Gryaznov , 77, Russian
Orthodox Archbishop of
Chelyabinsk and
Zlatoust (1989–1996), stroke.
[31]
April 3 -
Yevgeny Lyadin , 84, Russian footballer.
[32]
April 6 -
Igor Birman , 85, Russian-born American writer and economist.
[33]
April 10 -
Mikhail Rusyayev , 46, Russian footballer.
[34]
April 27 -
Igor Kon , 82, Russian philosopher, psychologist and sexologist.
[35]
April 28 -
Yulia Rumyantseva , 42, Russian editor and film producer, suicide by jumping.
[36]
April 29 -
Vladimir Krainev , 67, Russian pianist,
People's Artist of the USSR , aortic aneurysm.
[37]
June 7 -
Maksud Sadikov , 48, Russian Islamic scholar and theologian, shot.[
citation needed ]
June 10 -
Yuri Budanov , 47, Russian military officer and war criminal, shot.
[43]
June 15 -
Pavel Stolbov , 81, Russian gymnast,
1956 Olympic gold medalist.
[44]
June 18 -
Yelena Bonner , 88, Russian human rights activist, after long illness.
[45]
June 20 -
June 23 -
Vladislav Achalov , 65, Russian general and activist.
[48]
July 7 -
Yuri Kukin , 78, Russian singer-songwriter.
[49]
July 14 -
Vladimir Kosinsky , 66, Russian swimmer,
1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
[50]
July 19 -
Karen Khachaturian , 90, Russian composer.
[51]
July 21 -
Yevgeny Lopatin , 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (
1952 ) weightlifter.
[52]
July 22 -
Dmitri Furman , 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness.
[53]
July 27 -
Eduard Rozovsky , 84, Russian cinematographer (
Amphibian Man ,
White Sun of the Desert ), car accident.
[54]
August 2 -
August 3 -
Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov , 68, Russian pianist.
[57]
August 14 -
Yekaterina Golubeva , 44, Russian actress.
[58]
August 27 -
Iya Savvina , 75, Russian actress,
People's Artist of the USSR .
[59]
August 30 -
Alla Bayanova , 97, Russian singer,
People's Artist of Russia , cancer.
[60]
August 31 -
Valery Rozhdestvensky , 72, Soviet cosmonaut.
[61]
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