Presidential elections were held in Russia on 26 March 2000. Incumbent prime minister and acting president Vladimir Putin, who had succeeded Boris Yeltsin...

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across...

The Russian Open was a golf tournament on the European Tour. The event was established in 1993, and was first held at the Moscow Country Club in Nakhabino...

In January 2008, Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian academics issued the "Belgorod Declaration" in support of open access to scientific and cultural knowledge...

The Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea, with the loss of all 118 personnel on board. The submarine...

Russia. USA: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 371+ – via Open Library (fulltext). James Stuart Olson; et al., eds. (1994). "Chronology of the Russian...

The economy of Russia is an emerging and developing, high-income, industrialized, mixed market-oriented economy. It has the eleventh-largest economy in...

The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the...

Men Men Women Russia competed in seven Sailing events at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but they never scored higher than 6-th. Men Women Open Men Women Men...

The Russian Open in badminton was an international open held in Russia since 1993. This tournament is the continuation of the USSR International. In 2007...

birth rate – 8.9 per 100,000 inhabitants – was the lowest since the year 2000. Russia has a low fertility rate with 1.42 children per woman in 2022, below...

Russians (Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye [ˈruskʲɪje] ) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. Their mother tongue is Russian...

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one type of federal subject of the Russian Federation. 21 republics are internationally recognized as part of Russia; another is under its de facto control...

Assembly of Russia. It was established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993. Each of the 89 federal subjects of Russia (including two...

of God die in Uganda. March 26 – 2000 Russian presidential election: Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia. April 30 – Canonization of Faustina...

The 1st FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships were held on October 29-November 4, 2000 in the waters off Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA...

was the third-longest tiebreak in the Open Era. Safin also reached the semifinals in 2000. Safin helped Russia achieve its first Davis Cup victory in...

to 2005, Open Russia NGO was the general sponsor of the Booker Literary Prize in Russia, leading to its name change to the Booker–Open Russia Literary...

The Russian mafia (Russian: ру́сская ма́фия rússkaya máfiya [ˈruskəjə ˈmafʲɪjə] or росси́йская ма́фия rossíyskaya máfiya [rɐˈsʲijskəjə ˈmafʲɪjə]), otherwise...

Channel One (Russian: Первый канал, romanized: Pervý kanal, IPA: [ˈpʲervɨj kɐˈnal], lit. 'First Channel') is a Russian state-controlled television channel...

rankings for the first time since 5 June 2000. Stefanos Tsitsipas' fourth-round loss guaranteed a first-time French Open finalist from the bottom half of the...

Soviet Union, with newly written lyrics, in December 2000, and it became the second anthem used by Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The government...

the Russian Federation (Russian: Президент Российской Федерации, romanized: Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the executive head of state of Russia. The...

Privatization in Russia describes the series of post-Soviet reforms that resulted in large-scale privatization of Russia's state-owned assets, particularly...

most popular sport in Russia is soccer. According to Yandex search analysis results rating of the most popular sports among Russians: "Football topped the...

Kinotavr (Russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival was an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually...

compliance with the Russian Federation's international obligations under the open exchange of information constituting a state secret of the Russian Federation;...

of mind, a Honored Worker of Science (2010). On her initiative in 2000 was first open training specialization "Psycholinguistics" (in General Linguistics...

The All-Russian Political Party "United Russia" (Russian: Всероссийская политическая партия «Единая Россия», romanized: Vserossiyskaya politicheskaya partiya...