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See also:	History of Russia Timeline of Russian history List of years in Russia

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^[1]

October

• 3 October - 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya^[2]

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)