2004 in Russia

Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov to February 24 Viktor Khristenko as Acting Prime Minister to March 5 Mikhail Fradkov

  Events

• 14 March - Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election and secures his second term as president.

• 16 March - Arkhangelsk explosion
• 9 May - Assassination of the Pro-Russian Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny.
• 13 August–29 August - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and wins 27 gold, 27 silver and 38 bronze medals.
• 29 August - Alu Alkhanov succeeds Kadyrov as President of Chechnya following elections.
• 1 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Chechen separatists take over 1,000 hostages at a school in North Ossetia–Alania.
• 3 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Russian troops storm the school. Over 330 people, including 186 children, are killed during the siege.
• 26 December - 9 Russians are among the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

  Sport

Notable deaths

• 13 February - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
• 28 February - Ruslan Gelayev
• 9 May - Akhmad Kadyrov
• 22 May - Mikhail Voronin, gymnast