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Let’s remember 2003.
In 2003, Oleg Romantsev left Spartak, and the team fell to 10th place. The club hasn’t been this low since they returned from the league in 1977.
Most of all, than Romantsev – Chervichenko, turned out to be the duo tATu – in 2003 the group soared to first place in the British charts. On the air of the show of the American channel NBC Tonight in T-shirts with the inscription “*** war!”
Also, tATu set an absolute record in terms of sales in Japan – 1.8 million copies of the album “200 km / h down the wrong lane.” Beat the records of The Beatles, Michael Jackson and Madonna.
• On May 27, 2003, the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg began. Flowers were laid at the monument to Peter I by the governor of the city, Vladimir Yakovlev, the future test of Alexander Kerzhakov, Vadim Tyulpanov, and other officials. The holiday lasted until June 1st.
• Andrey Zvyagintsev’s first directorial work, the film “Return”, which was filmed on Lake Ladoga, near St. Petersburg, received the main prize of the Venice Film Festival. As well as coverage of film academies as the discovery of the year.
• On May 5, 2003, a monument to the scientist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov was unveiled on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg.
This is the first monument to Sakharov in Russia. Elena Bonnera opposed the monument to a free husband, which allows such a gesture – in modern Russia – hypocrisy.
• On May 24, 2003 Paul McCartney’s first concert in Russia took place – on Red Square! The show lasted almost three hours.
• June 5, 2003 – the first prize of Muz-TV took place in the sports complex “Olympic”.
The best pop group was “Disco Crash”. Rock band – “Leningrad”. The best album is “Fourteen weeks of silence” by Zemfira.
• On June 22, 2003, the TVS channel was closed, where the NTV stars of the 90s worked. The channel was banned by order of the Ministry of Press, Television and Radio Broadcasting and Mass Communications with the wording “to ban viewers.”
The right to broadcast on a six-meter frequency to the Sport TV channel.
• 7 TEFI awards and 3 Golden Eagle awards were received in 2003 by Vladimir Bortko’s dramatic television series The Idiot with Yevgeny Mironov as Prince Myshkin. Other roles were played by Vladimir Mashkov, Inna Churikova, Oleg Basilashvili, Mikhail Boyarsky and others.
• In September 2003, Anastasia Volochkova was fired from the Bolshoi Theatre. Formally – due to the fact that Volochkova does not match the physical form and cannot find a partner.
Volochkova herself revealed the expulsion from the places of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, with objects that she did not part with until the tumor.
• On October 5, 2003, Akhmat Kadyrova was elected president of Chechnya.
• In October 2003, a few months after Abramovich bought Chelsea, the Blues’ Russian fan club became official. Former Chelsea goalkeeper Dmitry Kharin visited the presentation of the fan club website.
• In October 2003, Russian scientists Alexei Abrikosov and Vitaly Ginzburg received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering contributions to the chemistry of superconductors and superfluid liquids.
• On October 25, 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, co-owner and head of the Yukos oil company (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia), was prosecuted for protection of embezzlement and tax evasion. At the time of his arrest, he was one of the richest people in the world. His fortune was estimated at $15 billion.
The Russian national team entered Euro 2004! Georgy Yartsev took part in the tournament situation, but still brought to the joints, and after 0:0 in Moscow we went through thanks to Vadim Evseev’s goal in Cardiff.
• The bloc “Unity and Fatherland – United Russia” won the December elections to the State Duma – 37.56%. The Communist Party became the second – 12.61%. Third LDPR – 11.45%. The fourth – “Motherland” – 9.02%. The Union of Right Forces and Yabloko did not overcome the 5% threshold and did not get into the Duma.
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