2019 in Russia

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev

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• February – The Russian military launches a nationwide tour to parade war trophies from its intervention in the Syrian civil war.{{cite news|date=27 February 2019|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-exhibitio/russias-military-shows-off-hardware-seized-in-syria-idUSKCN1QG2EP|title=Russia's military shows off hardware seized in Syria}}
• 14 February – Michael Calvey, the founder of the Moscow-based private equity firm Baring Vostok Capital Partners, was arrested on suspicion of alleged embezzlement.{{cite web |author=Amy Knight |date=March 4, 2019 |title=The Price of Doing Business in Russia: Prison |url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/04/the-price-of-doing-business-in-russia-prison/ |accessdate=March 4, 2019 |work=New York Review of Books}}{{cite news |date=21 February 2019 |title=Russia charges US investor with fraud in high-profile case |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47323131 |accessdate=2 September 2019 |publisher=BBC}}
• 2–12 March – 2019 Winter Universiade, a multi-sport event in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.{{Cite web |last=mathieu |date=2019-02-28 |title=Just one day to the big show – preview to Winter Universiade 2019 |url=https://www.fisu.net/2019/03/01/just-one-day-to-the-big-show-preview-to-winter-universiade-2019/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=FISU |language=en-US}}
• 6 March – the Russian Federal Assembly passed a law criminalising publication of online statements that are found "indecent" or "disrespectful" towards Russian state or government officials (including the president), stipulating fines of up to 100,000 roubles for first-time offenders, and 200,000 roubles or up to 15 days imprisonment for repeat.{{cite news |last1=Bennetts |first1=Marc |title=Russia passes law to jail people for 15 days for 'disrespecting' government |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/russian-parliament-outlaws-online-disrespect |access-date=19 October 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=6 March 2019}}
• 5 May – Aeroflot Flight 1492 crashes and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, killing 41 people on board.
• 28 May– in the village of Bolshevik in Volsk, Russia 15-year-old seventh-grader Daniil Pulkin threw two Molotov cocktails and hit a 12-year-old girl on the head with an axe, after which he fled the scene of the crime. The attacker was detained the same day.{{cite news |date=May 25, 2019 |title=7th grader who attacked school attempts to commit suicide |publisher=Crime Russia |url=https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/7th-grader-who-attacked-school-attempts-to-commit-suicide/ |access-date=September 10, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}{{cite web |date=28 May 2019 |title=Russian Teenager Attacks Classmate With Axe, Cites Past School Shootings – Reports |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/28/russian-teenager-attacks-classmate-with-axe-cites-past-school-shootings-reports-a65774 |accessdate=2021-06-13 |work=The Moscow Times}}
• July–September – 2019 Moscow protests caused by the situation with the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections.
• 8 August – Nyonoksa radiation accident causes 5 immediate deaths.
• 15 August – Ural Airlines Flight 178 crashed, all on board survived.{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=Brendan Cole Senior News |date=2019-08-15 |title=Russian Plane With 234 On Board Crash-lands in Cornfield After Bird Strike |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ural-airlines-russia-crash-landing-passengers-1454464 |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}
• 7 September – Filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.{{citation|website=Amnesty International/USA|title=FILMMAKER OLEG SENTSOV AND OTHERS FREED IN PRISONER SWAP|access-date=Sep 7, 2019|url=https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/filmmaker-oleg-sentsov-and-others-freed-in-prisoner-swap/}}

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• 21 May – Tengku Ismail Leon Petra, son of Muhammad V of Kelantan and Oksana Voevodina.{{Cite web |date=2019-06-04 |title=Malaysia’s Sultan Muhammad V has baby boy with Russian wife |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3013106/sultan-muhammad-v-ruler-malaysias-kelatan-state-has-baby |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}

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{{Further|:Category:2019 deaths|Deaths in 2019}}

{{Main|Deaths in February 2019}}

• 3 February – Detsl, hip hop artist.{{Cite web|url=https://iz.ru/841330/2019-02-03/agent-rasskazal-podrobnosti-smerti-detcla|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203143800/https://iz.ru/841330/2019-02-03/agent-rasskazal-podrobnosti-smerti-detcla|url-status=dead|title=Агент назвал причину смерти Децла|first=Ирина|last=Михеева|date=February 3, 2019|archivedate=February 3, 2019|website=Известия}}
• 4 February – Evgeniy Aleksandrov, footballer (b. 1952)
• 8 February – Sergei Yursky, actor (b. 1935)
• 18 February – Valentina Dimitrieva, farm worker (b. 1937).{{cite encyclopedia|last=Shornikov|first=A. M.|title=Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна|trans-title=Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna|url=http://enc.cap.ru/?t=prsn&lnk=2513|encyclopedia={{ill|Chuvash encyclopedia|cv|Чăваш энциклопедийĕ|ru|Чувашская энциклопедия|uk|Чуваська енциклопедія}}|language=ru|date=|access-date=29 October 2022}}

{{Main|Deaths in March 2019}}

• 1 March – Zhores Alferov, scientist (b. 1930)

{{Main|Deaths in April 2019}}

• 27 April – Aleksey Lebed, politician (b. 1955)

{{Main|Deaths in May 2019}}

• 9 May – Sergey Dorenko, journalist (b. 1959)

{{Main|Deaths in July 2019}}

• 3 July – Arseny Mironov, aeronautical engineer (b. 1917){{Cite web|url=https://www.zhukvesti.ru/articles/detail/7559/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703173245/http://www.zhukvesti.ru/articles/detail/7559/|url-status=dead|title=Прощание с легендой: не стало Арсения Дмитриевич Миронова|first=Эла|last=Знаменская|date=July 3, 2019|archivedate=July 3, 2019}}

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