2006
Former Russian security service officer Alexander Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin living in exile in London, dies of...
2005
Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov is killed by Russian forces Moscow and Tehran sign agreement by which Russia will supply fuel for Iran's...
2004
Authorities seize Yuganskneftegaz, Yukos's key production unit, over alleged tax debts, in move widely seen as punishment for Yukos boss...
2003
Mass graves are discovered in Chechnya with thousands of Russian Army killed Chechens bodies 60 people die in a bomb attack on Russians...
2002
Moscow theater hostage crisis, (129 die when Russian soldiers storm the theater with poisonous gas) Alexander Litvinenko's book "Blowing...
2001
There was a pogrom in a market in Moscow's Yasenevo District against merchants from the Caucasus 2000- Chechen Insurgency...