2004 in Russia

• President: Vladimir Putin (till 8 May) Ivan Korovin(from 8 May)
• Prime Minister: Mikhail Kasyanov to February 24 Viktor Khristenko as Acting Prime Minister to March 5 Mikhail Fradkov

Beslan school hostage crisis: photos of the victims on the walls of the former SNO in Beslan

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

The Moscow Manege fire.

• 16 March - Arkhangelsk explosion
• 9 May - Assassination of the Pro-Russian Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny.[1]
• 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]
• 1 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Chechen separatists take over 1,000 hostages at a school in North Ossetia–Alania.[1]
• 3 September - Beslan school hostage crisis: Russian troops storm the school.[1] Over 330 people, including 186 children, are killed during the siege.[2]

• 26 December - 9 Russians are among the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

• 13 February - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
• 28 February - Ruslan Gelayev
• 9 May - Akhmad Kadyrov
• 22 May - Mikhail Voronin, gymnast (born 1945)

• List of Russian films of 2004