2003

SARS, the disease of the year. "Idiot", a 10-episode experiment. Abramovich buys Chelsea. Andrei Zvyagintsev's "The Return" wins in Venice. The К-159 nuclear submarine sinks. The scandal at the Bolshoi Theatre. Euro trades above dollar. "Werewolves in shoulder straps". St. Petersburg is 300 years old. Suicide bombers in Moscow. McCartney performs in the Red Square. The Yukos case; Khodorkovsky arrested. Schwarzenegger becomes the Governor of California. Right-wing parties do not make it into the Duma. Abrikosov and Ginzburg win the Nobel Prize. New worldwide pastime — "flash mob". TVS is shut down.