1999 in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister:
• * until 12 May: Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov
• * 12 May-9 August: Sergei Stepashin
• * starting 9 August: Vladimir Putin
• Minister of Defence: Igor Sergeyev

  Events

March

• 19 March - 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing

  June

• June - Exercise Zapad-99

  August

• August - Invasion of Dagestan

  September

• September - Russian apartment bombings

  October

• 7 October - Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack
• 21 October - Grozny ballistic missile attack
• 29 October - Baku–Rostov highway bombing

  December

• December - Alkhan-Yurt massacre
• 3 December - 1999 Grozny refugee convoy shooting
• 19 December - 1999 Russian legislative election

  Deaths

• 12 June - Sergey Khlebnikov, Olympic speed skater
• 3 July - Igor Belsky, ballet dancer
• 28 July - Georgy Rerberg, cinematographer
• 7 October - Genrikh Sapgir, writer
• 21 December - Sergey Nagovitsyn, singer