1998 in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin
• Prime Minister:
• * until 23 March: Viktor Chernomyrdin
• * 23 March-24 April: vacant
• * 24 April-23 August: Yevgeny Primakov
• * 23 August-11 September: vacant
• * starting 11 September: Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov
• Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev

  Events

March

• 18 March - Kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov

  August

• 17 August - 1998 Russian financial crisis

  October

• 3 October - 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya

  Deaths

• 26 March - Nikolay Dubinin, biologist
• 4 June - Lev Rokhlin, former army officer and Yeltsin critic, murdered
• 8 June - Larisa Yudina, opposition journalist, assassinated
• 23 August - Alexey Andreevich Anselm, physicist
• 3 December - Albert Leman, composer
• 23 December - Anatoly Rybakov, writer