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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
October
- 3 October - 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya
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
External links
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