2007 in Russia Events from the year 2007 in Russia .Incumbents President - Vladimir Putin Prime Minister - Mikhail Fradkov to September 14 , Viktor Zubkov Events January 1: The Evenk and Taymyr Autonomous Okrugs merged with Krasnoyarsk Krai , ending their status as federal subjects. January 8: The Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates. February 2: Orange Snow fell in Siberia , most likely caused by sandstorms in neighboring Kazakhstan . March 17: UTair Flight 471 ends with a hard landing , killing at least 6 people and injuring 20 others. March 19: The Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster , a methane explosion Kemerovo Oblast , kills at least 108 people. April: It is reported in Forbes magazine , an American publication, that Russia now has 60 billionaires, mostly living in Moscow , which is believed to have more millionaires than any other city in the world. 15 years ago, Russia did not even have any millionaires. April 27: A Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashes in Chechnya , killing all 20 federal troops aboard. July 1: The Koryak Autonomous Okrug merged with Kamchatka Oblast , creating Kamchatka Krai . July 4: The International Olympic Committee awards the 2014 Winter Olympics to, Sochi , Russia. July 10 - August 4: The Arktika 2007 expedition commences, which is the first crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole. Summer: The Dissenters March , which began in December 2006, continue throughout the summer. September 7: Russian personnel are ambushed in the Vedeno region of Chechnya. November 15: The Guerilla phase of the Second Chechen War continues. November 24: Anti-Putin Protests , led by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov , erupted in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. December 2: A Chechen constitutional referendum was held in Chechnya. December 2: The Legislative elections for seats in the State Duma resulted in a majority win by United Russia .Popular culture Sports January 27 - February 4: The Bandy World Championships , the sport competition for Bandy, began in Kemerovo . April 21 - September 23: The Russian Championship XVII , a tournament for semi-professional rugby league clubs, began. April 27 - May 13: The 71st IIHF World Championship sponsored by International Ice Hockey Federation was held in Moscow. August 19 - August 26: The Women's European Water Polo Olympic Qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Kirishi . September 28 - October 7: The World Fencing Championships were held in Saint Petersburg. November 21: The Russian football season ends, with the national football team winning 5 out of 10 games. November 22–25: The Cup of Russia , an international figure skating competition , began in Moscow.Arts March 1 - 5: The 12th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film is held, with the Grand Prix award given to My Love . May 10 - 12: Russia's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest , held in Finland , "Song Number 1", comes in third.Notable deaths Notable deaths
Popular articles Javier Milei - Argentine libertarian economist, author, radio conductor and public speaker sympathetic to the Austrian School of economic thought. He became widely known for his regular ...Jimmy Carter - American politician, philanthropist, and former farmer who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previ...UEFA Euro 2024 - The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship , commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 or simply Euro 2024 , will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial internationa...Argentina - country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also b...Sam Altman - American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the former president of Y Combinator and now the CEO of OpenAI. Early life and education. ...Rosalynn Carter - American who served as First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981 as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. For decades, she has been a leading advocate for numerou...Next Argentine presidential election - Next Argentine presidential election - presidential election in Argentina....Popular movies The Hunger Games (film) - 2012 American dystopian action thriller science fiction-adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on Suzanne Collins’s 2008 novel of the same name. It is the first insta...untitled Captain Marvel sequel - part of Marvel Cinematic Universe....Killers of the Flower Moon (film project) - Killers of the Flower Moon - film project in United States of America. It was presented as drama, detective fiction, thriller. The film project starred Leonardo Dicaprio, Robert De Niro. Director of...Five Nights at Freddy's (film) - Five Nights at Freddy's - film published in 2017 in United States of America. Scenarist of the film - Scott Cawthon....Popular video games Minecraft - sandbox video game developed by Mojang Studios. Created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language and released as a public alpha for personal computers in 2...Grand Theft Auto V - 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the first main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series since 2008's Grand Theft ...Roblox - online game platform and game creation system that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Founded by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in...Baldur's Gate III - upcoming role-playing video game developed and published by Larian Studios for Microsoft Windows and the Stadia streaming service. It is the third main game in the Baldur's ...Alan Wake - action-adventure video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios, released for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The story follows best-selling thri...Fortnite - online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: ...Super Mario RPG - is a role-playing video game developed by Square and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1996. It was directed by Yoshihiko Maekawa and Chihiro Fujioka and produced by...Popular books Book of Revelation - The Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament, and consequently is also the final book of the Christian Bible. Its title is derived from the first word of the Koine Greek text: apok...Book of Genesis - account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity, Israel's ancestors and the origins...Gospel of Matthew - The Gospel According to Matthew is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, rejected and executed in Israel, pronounces judgement on ...Michelin Guide - Michelin Guides are a series of guide books published by the French tyre company Michelin for more than a century. The term normally refers to the annually published Michelin Red Guide , the oldest...Psalms - The Book of Psalms , commonly referred to simply as Psalms , the Psalter or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim , the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and thus a book of th...Ecclesiastes - Ecclesiastes is one of 24 books of the Tanakh , where it is classified as one of the Ketuvim . Originally written c. 450–200 BCE, it is also among the canonical Wisdom literature of the Old Tes...The 48 Laws of Power - non-fiction book by American author Robert Greene. The book...Popular television series The Crown (TV series) - historical drama web television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Tel...Friends - American sitcom television series, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast sta...Young Sheldon - spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory and begins with the character Sheldon...Modern Family - American television mockumentary family sitcom created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for the American Broadcasting Company. It ran for eleven seasons, from September 23...Loki (TV series) - upcoming American web television miniseries created for Disney+ by Michael Waldron, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, shar...Game of Thrones - American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It...Shameless (American TV series) - American comedy-drama television series developed by John Wells which debuted on Showtime on January 9, 2011. It...
OWIKI.org . Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.