2012 in Russia

Governors

January

• January 5 – Russia loses to Sweden 1–0 in overtime in the 2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship.^[1]
• January 9 – Insurgency in the North Caucasus: Clashes occur between the Russian forces and Islamist militants in the Vedensky District, Chechnya, with reportedly 8 killed and 16 wounded.^[2]
• January 15 – Russia's unmanned Fobos-Grunt space probe re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after a failed mission to the Martian moon Phobos. The 13-ton spacecraft disintegrates over the southern Pacific Ocean at approximately 16:45 UTC. China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, which was launched together with Fobos-Grunt, is also destroyed.^[3][4]
• January 27 – Insurgency in the North Caucasus: 13 people are killed in three separate clashes between the Russian forces and Islamist militants in the Russian republics of Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkariya.^[5]

February

• February 13–17 – 2012 Nozhay-Yurtovsky District clashes.
• February 27 – The 2012 Astrakhan gas explosion occurs

March

• March 4 – The 2012 Presidential election is held.
• March 20–24 – The 2012 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships took place

April

• April 2 – UTair Flight 120 crashed
• April 26–29 – The 2012 European Judo Championships took place

May

• May 3 – The 2012 Makhachkala attack occurs
• May 7 – Putin was inaugurated as President
• May 8 – Medvedev appointed as Prime Minister and later he became leader of the United Russia Party
• May 21 – new cabinet was formed.

June

• June 3–4 – The European Union-Russia Summit in Saint Petersburg.
• June - Moscow courts enacted a hundred-year ban on gay pride parades.^[6]

July

• July – The Russian foreign agent law bill is introduced by legislators from the governing United Russia party.
• July 20 – The Russian foreign agent law is signed into law by President Vladimir Putin. The law requires non-profit organizations that receive foreign donations and engage in "political activity" to register and declare themselves as foreign agents
• Stavropol region has a ban on hijabs in schools. the first of its kind imposed by a region in the Russian federation. The ruling was upheld by Russia's Supreme Court in July 2013.^[7][8][9]

August

• August 22 – Russia became the 156th member of the World Trade Organization.^[10]

October

• October – The Donguz explosion occurs
• October 14 – A second round of regional elections were held

November

• November 4 – National unity day^[11]

• November 7 – The 2012 Moscow shooting occurs

December

• December 6–9 – The 2012–13 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final took place

• December 13–16 – The 2012 Channel One Cup took place
• December 25–28 – The 2013 Russian Figure Skating Championships took place

• December 29 – Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 crashed at Moscow Vnukovo Airport

January

• January 2 – Anatoly Kolesov, 73, wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1964), after long illness. (born 1938)^[12]
• January 2 – Ivan Calin, 76, Moldovan politician, Acting President of the Moldovan Parliament (2009).^[13]
• January 3 – Stepan Oshchepkov, 77, canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964). (born 1934)^[14]
• January 5 – Alexander Sizonenko, 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (1991).^[15]
• January 8 – Dmitry Machinsky, 74, Russian archaeologist.^[16]
• January 9 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, 55, Belarusian football player and coach.^[17]
• January 14 – Zelemkhan Zangiyev, 37, Russian footballer.^[18]
• January 15 – Eduard Ivanov, 73, Soviet ice hockey player, World and Olympic champion.^[19]
• January 16 – Valentin Rusantsov, 72, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (1996–2012).^[20]
• January 25 – Alexander Zhitinsky, 71, Russian writer.^[21]
• January 27 – Dzhamaleim Mutaliyev, 35, Russian rebel leader, shot.^{[citation needed][22]}

February

• February 6 – Vitaly Gorelik, 44, Russian mountaineer, heart attack.^[23]
• February 11 – Sergey Kolosov, 90, Russian film director, People's Artist of the USSR.^[24]
• February 17 – Tatyana Golikova, 66, Russian ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet).^[25]
• February 20 –
  • Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke.^[26]
  • Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990).^[27]
• February 22 – Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.^[28]

March

• March 21 – Marina Salye, Russian geologist and politician.^[29]
• March 27 – Anatoly Kikin, Soviet and Russian footballer and coach.^[30]
• March 27 – Alim Zankishiev, Russian insurgent, leader in the Caucasus Emirate.^[31]
• March 28 – Eduard Steinberg, 76, Russian painter.^[32]
• March 28 – Sergey Solnechnikov, Russian military officer.^[33]
• March 30 – Viktor Kosichkin, Russian Olympic speed skating gold and silver medalist.^{[citation needed]}
• March 30 – Leonid Shebarshin, Russian KGB interim Chairman.^[34]

June

• June 4 – Eduard Khil, 77, Russian baritone singer.^[35]