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Events from the year 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[1]
October
Deaths
- 26 March - Nikolay Dubinin, biologist (b. 1907)
- 4 June - Lev Rokhlin, former army officer and Yeltsin critic, murdered (b. 1947)
- 8 June - Larisa Yudina, opposition journalist, assassinated (b. 1920)
- 23 August - Alexey Andreevich Anselm, physicist (b. 1934)
- 3 December - Albert Leman, composer (b. 1915)
- 23 December - Anatoly Rybakov, writer (b. 1911)
References
- ↑ ""Joint Statement by the Government of the Russian Federation and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation On the Exchange Rate Policy", 17 August 1998". Archived from the original on 31 January 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ↑ "BBC News | Europe | Hostages alive, says Chechen president". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
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