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Events from the year 2004 in Russia.

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov to February 24 Viktor Khristenko as Acting Prime Minister to March 5 Mikhail Fradkov

Events

Beslan school hostage crisis: photos of the victims on the walls of the former SNO in Beslan

• 14 March - Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election and secures his second term as president.

The Moscow Manege fire.

• 16 March - Arkhangelsk explosion
• 9 May - Assassination of the Pro-Russian Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny.^[1]
• 13 August–29 August - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and wins 27 gold, 27 silver and 38 bronze medals.
• 29 August - Alu Alkhanov succeeds Kadyrov as President of Chechnya following elections.^[1]
• 1 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Chechen separatists take over 1,000 hostages at a school in North Ossetia–Alania.^[1]
• 3 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Russian troops storm the school.^[1] Over 330 people, including 186 children, are killed during the siege.^[2]

• 26 December - 9 Russians are among the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Sport

2004 Summer Olympics - Afina - 3rd place

Undated

• The Alexander Nevsky prize, a Russian national historical-literary competition is established.

Births

• 28 March – Anna Shcherbakova, figure skater^[3]
• 14 April – Anastasia Tarakanova, figure skater^[4]
• 23 June – Alexandra Trusova, figure skater^[5]
• 6 December – Lala Kramarenko, rhythmic gymnast

Notable deaths

• 13 February - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
• 28 February - Ruslan Gelayev
• 9 May - Akhmad Kadyrov
• 22 May - Mikhail Voronin, gymnast (born 1945)