2020 in Russia

Events in the year 2020 in the Russian Federation.

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Incumbents

• President: Vladimir Putin
• Prime Minister: Dmitry Medvedev (until January 16); Mikhail Mishustin (since January 16);[1] Andrey Belousov (acting: April 30 to May 19)

Events

President Putin visits coronavirus patients at Moscow hospital on 24 March.

January

• January 22 – Russia is seen as the tenth most corrupt country in the world.[2]
• January 30 – Russia closes its land border with the People's Republic of China to prevent the spread of COVID-19.[3]

February

• February 20 – Russian authorities suspend the entry of Chinese citizens to Russia for employment, private, educational and tourist purposes, due to fears of the COVID-19 Outbreak.[4]

March

• March 24 – COVID-19 pandemic: Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin told President Putin at a meeting that "a serious situation is unfolding" and that the relatively low number of confirmed cases could be due to a low level of testing, saying that "there are far more people who are infected" and that the number of people in Moscow suspected of having the coronavirus was about 500.[5][6][7] A number of venues and parks in Russia including Crocus Expo in Krasnoyarsk, Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy and Patriot Park in Moscow and Lenexpo in Saint Petersburg were turned into temporary hospitals.[8][9][10]
• March 28 – the government decided to close all automobile, railway, pedestrian, river, or other border checkpoints, including on the Belarus border, with exceptions similar to that of the air travel restrictions.[11]

April

• April 10 — 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: Russia and Saudi Arabia, when implementing the new OPEC+ agreement from May to the end of June 2020, will have to produce no more than 8.5 million barrels of oil per day.
• April 30 — Russia announced there are more than 100,000 people infected by the coronavirus; Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that his tests for coronavirus showed positive results, his First Deputy Andrey Belousov was appointed as Acting Prime Minister.

May

• May 1 — Vladimir Yakushev Minister of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector, was hospitalized after he was diagnosed with coronavirus. His deputy was appointed as acting minister.

June

• June 4 - Russian President Putin agreed to declare a national emergency after the 20,000 tons of diesel spill near Norilsk.[12]

July

• July 1:
  • The 2020 Russian constitutional referendum
  • The railway-cargo part of the Krymsky bridge through Kerch Strait has been opened.

September

• September 13 — Local elections were held including the election of the heads of 17 Republics and the election of deputies of legislative bodies in 11 districts of the Russian Federation. In regions where governors resigned after June 13, 2020, elections were held on a single voting day in 2021. A new governor was elected in Sevastopol, Leningrad Oblast.
• September 21 — Caucasus 2020 (also called Kavkaz 2020) multinational command post exercise will start [13]

Deaths

• January 21 — Boris Tsirelson, Russian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1950)[14]
• March 25 – Inna Makarova, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1926)[15]
• July 2 – Nikolai Kapustin, Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (b. 1937)[16]
• November 18 – Alexander Dubyanskiy[17]

See also

References

1. Mary Ilyushina; Jack Guy (Jan 16, 2020). "Mikhail Mishustin didn't have an English Wikipedia page on Wednesday morning. A day later, he's Russia's prime minister". CNN.
2. "México es señalado como el segundo país más corrupto del mundo, a pesar del discurso de López Obrador" [Mexico is designated as the second most corrupt country in the world, despite López Obrador's speech]. Infobae (in Spanish). Jan 22, 2020.
3. Ellyatt, Holly (2020-01-30). "Russia closes border with China to prevent spread of the coronavirus". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
4. "Russia bars entry of Chinese citizens amid coronavirus threat". Reuters. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
5. "Moscow's mayor warns Putin that regional officials don't understand coronavirus risks and says low levels of testing could explain Russia's small number of confirmed cases". Meduza. 24 March 2020. Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
6. "No real picture of COVID-2019 situation in Russian regions — Moscow mayor". TASS. 24 March 2020. Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
7. "About 500 people in Moscow suspected of having COVID". TASS. 24 March 2020. Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
8. "В Москве на ВДНХ и в Сокольниках оборудуют временные госпитали". RIA.
9. "Стационары для больных COVID-19 откроют в парке "Патриот" и "Крокус экспо"". Vedomosti.
10. "Временный госпиталь в "Ленэкспо" принял первых пациентов с коронавирусом". RIA.
11. "Принято решение о временном ограничении движения через автомобильные, железнодорожные, пешеходные, речные и смешанные пункты пропуска через государственную границу Российской Федерации, а также через сухопутный участок российско-белорусской государственной границы". Government of Russia (in Russian). 28 March 2020. Archived from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
12. Arctic Circle oil spill prompts Putin to declare state of emergency
13. Russian Defence Ministry (2020-09-08). "Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu holds teleconference with leadership of Armed Forces". Retrieved 2020-09-10.
14. "The School of Mathematical Sciences mourns the death of our colleague, Professor Boris Tsirelson". en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
15. "Умерла Инна Макарова". starhit.ru (in Russian). March 25, 2020. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
16. "Home of Nikolai Kapustin | Pianist & Composer". www.nikolai-kapustin.info.
17. "Russian scholar Alexander Dubiansky, who taught Tamil for nearly 50 years, passes away - The New Indian Express". www.newindianexpress.com. Retrieved 2020-11-19.