2015 in Russia

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The following lists some of the events from the year 2015 in Russia .

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Incumbents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

Scheduled

Sports

International sports competition

Deaths

January

February

July

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chechnya</span> First-level administrative division of Russia

Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, close to the Caspian Sea. The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country of Georgia to its south; with the Russian republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia-Alania to its east, north, and west; and with Stavropol Krai to its northwest.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Second Chechen War</span> 1999–2000 conflict in Chechnya and the North Caucasus

The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 to April 2009. In August 1999, Islamist fighters from Chechnya infiltrated Russia's Dagestan region, declaring it an independent state and calling for holy war. During the initial campaign, Russian military and pro-Russian Chechen paramilitary forces faced Chechen separatists in open combat and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from December 1999 until February 2000. Russia established direct rule over Chechnya in May 2000 although Chechen militant resistance throughout the North Caucasus region continued to inflict heavy Russian casualties and challenge Russian political control over Chechnya for several years. Both sides carried out attacks against civilians. These attacks drew international condemnation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Republics of Russia</span> Constituent units of the Russian Federation

According to its constitution, the Russian Federation is divided into 85 federal subjects, 21 of which are republics. Republics are administrative divisions originally created as nation states to represent areas of non-Russian ethnicity. The indigenous ethnic group that gives its name to the republic is referred to as the titular nationality. However, due to centuries of Russian migration, each nationality is not necessarily a majority of a republic's population.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ramzan Kadyrov</span> Head of Chechen Republic since 2007

Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov is a Russian and Chechen politician who currently serves as the Head of the Chechen Republic. He was formerly a member of the Chechen independence movement, and is a lieutenant general in the Russian military.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hero of the Russian Federation</span> Highest honorary title of Russia

Hero of the Russian Federation, also unofficially Hero of Russia, is the highest honorary title of the Russian Federation. The title comes with a Gold Star medal, an insignia of honour that identifies recipients.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vladimir Kara-Murza</span> Russian opposition politician (born 1981)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza is a Russian opposition politician, journalist, author, and filmmaker. A protégé of Boris Nemtsov, he serves as vice-chairman of Open Russia, an NGO founded by Russian businessman and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which promotes civil society and democracy in Russia. He was elected to the Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition in 2012, and served as deputy leader of the People's Freedom Party from 2015 to 2016. He has directed two documentaries, They Chose Freedom and Nemtsov. As of 2021, he acts as Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was awarded the Civil Courage Prize in 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boris Nemtsov</span> 20th and 21st-century Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist and liberal politician. He was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy. In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–97). Later he worked in the government of Russia as Minister of Fuel and Energy (1997), Vice Premier of Russia and Security Council member from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he founded the Young Russia movement. In 1998, he co-founded the coalition group Right Cause and in 1999, he co-formed Union of Right Forces, an electoral bloc and subsequently a political party. Nemtsov was also a member of the Congress of People's Deputies (1990), Federation Council (1993–97) and State Duma (1999–2003).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Federation of International Bandy</span> International sports governing body organizing bandy and rink bandy

The Federation of International Bandy is the international governing body for the sport of bandy, including the variant called rink bandy. The federation is headquartered in Söderhamn, Sweden.

An assassination attempt was made upon Leonid Brezhnev on 22 January 1969, when a deserter from the Soviet Army, Viktor Ilyin, fired shots at a motorcade carrying the Soviet leader through Moscow. Though Brezhnev was unhurt, the shots killed a driver and lightly injured several celebrated cosmonauts of the Soviet space program who were present in the motorcade. Brezhnev's attacker was captured and a news blackout on the event was maintained by the Soviet government for years thereafter.

The Canada national bandy team refers to the bandy teams representing Canada. There is the men's national team and the women's national team. Both teams are overseen by the Manitoba Bandy Federation and Canada Bandy whose organizations are members of the Federation of International Bandy. This article deals chiefly with the national men's team. For the women's team please see Canada women's national bandy team.

Events from the year 2007 in Russia.

The People's Freedom Party or shortly PARNAS, formerly Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party, initially Republican Party of Russia, is a liberal-democratic political party in Russia. It was one of the first opposition parties founded in the final years of the Soviet Union.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LGBT rights in Chechnya</span> Human rights in Russian territory

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in Chechnya have long been a cause for concern among human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. As a part of the Russian Federation, Russia's LGBT laws formally apply. De facto, there are no protections for LGBT citizens, and the Chechen authorities allegedly encourage the killing of people suspected of homosexuality by their families.

Anti-Russian violence in Chechnya refers to acts of violence that were recorded against Russian and non-Chechen civilians in Chechnya from 1991 to 1994, which resulted in tens of thousands of ethnic Russians leaving or being expelled from the republic. Chechen separatists declared independence in 1991 as part of the disintegration of the Soviet Union before the First Chechen War began in 1994.

This is a list of 1300 events that occurred in Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Assassination of Boris Nemtsov</span> 2015 murder in Moscow, Russia

The assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin, occurred in central Moscow on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015. An unknown assailant fired seven or eight shots from a Makarov pistol. Four of them hit Boris Nemtsov in the head, heart, liver and stomach, killing him almost instantly. He died hours after appealing to the public to support a march against Russia's war in Ukraine. Nemtsov's Ukrainian partner Anna Duritskaya survived the attack as its sole eyewitness.

The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zhanna Nemtsova</span> Russian journalist and social activist (born 1984)

Zhanna Borisovna Nemtsova is a Russian journalist and social activist. She is the daughter of Boris Nemtsov.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boris Nemtsov Square, Prague</span> Square in Prague

Náměstí Borise Němcova is a square in Prague 6, Bubeneč, which houses the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Czech republic.

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