1995 in Russia
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- President: Boris Yeltsin
- Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin
- Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev
Events
January
- January 3 — 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
- January 25 — Norwegian rocket incident
April
- April 7–8 — Samashki massacre
May
- May 12 — The political party Our Home – Russia is founded.[1]
- May 27 — The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.
June
- June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
- June 30 — A confidential agreement to end the sale of Russian conventional weapons to Iran by 1999 is signed by Chernomyrdin and Al Gore in Moscow[2]
December
- December 17 — 1995 Russian legislative election
Undated
- Pallada Asset Management company is founded.[3]
Births
- February 16
- Vladimir Fedoseev, chess grandmaster
- Sergei Prokofyev, footballer
- May 12 — Irina Khromacheva, tennis player
- June 2 — Aleksandr Sumin, footballer
- October 27 — Vladislav Sergeyevich Ozerov, footballer
- November 29 — Valery Kolegov, snowboarder
- December 11 — Natalia Soboleva, snowboarder
