2023 in Russia

Vladimir Putin during the speech

Meeting between China and Russia's leaders

• 21 February - during the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin announced Russia's suspension of participation in the New START treaty, stating that Russia would not allow the US and NATO to inspect its nuclear facilities. He claimed the United States was continuing to develop new nuclear weapons, and if the U.S. conducted any nuclear weapons tests, then Russia would develop and test its own.[1][2][3]

20–22 March

• 20–22 March - 2023 visit by Xi Jinping to Russia
• 25 March - Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus by July. The nuclear missiles will be operated by Russian forces. It will be the first time that Russian nuclear weapons have been deployed abroad since 1996.[4][5]
• 10 September
  • 2023 Russian regional elections
  • By-elections to the 8th Russian State Duma[6][7]

• 1 January – Viktor Ivanenko, 75, security officer.[8]
• 2 January – Viktor Fainberg, 91, philologist and Soviet dissident.[9]
• 3 January
  • Ruslan Khasbulatov, 80, economist and politician, chairman of the Supreme Soviet (1991–1993).[10]
  • Aleksey Malashenko, 71, academic and political scientist.[11]
• 5 January
  • Magomed Abdulaev, 61, lawyer and politician.[12]
  • Albert Rachkov, 95, diplomat and politician, second secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (1980–1986).[13]
• 7 January
  • Aleksandr Kharchikov, 73, folk singer-songwriter.[14]
  • Yuri Manin, 85, mathematician (Gauss–Manin connection).[15]
• 8 January
  • Aleksandr Shabanov, 87, chemist and politician, deputy (1995–2003).[16]
  • Georgy Shayduko, 60, sailor, Olympic silver medallist (1996), cardiac arrest.[17]
  • Aleksey Slapovsky, 65, novelist, playwright and screenwriter (The Irony of Fate 2).[18]
• 11 January – Murtaza Rakhimov, 88, politician, president of Bashkortostan (1993–2010).[19]
• 12 January – Sulambek Mamilov, 84, film director (Ladies' Tango, Day of Wrath, The Murder at Zhdanovskaya).[20]
• 14 January
  • Inna Churikova, 79, actress (Jack Frost, The Very Same Munchhausen, Walking the Streets of Moscow).[21]
  • Georgy Gagloev, 25, mixed martial artist, strangled.[22]
• 17 January – Vladimir Rusalov, 83, psychologist and anthropologist.[23]
• 18 January
  • Nikolai Dostal, 76, film director (Man with an Accordion, Cloud-Paradise), screenwriter and actor (Sea Tales).[24]
  • Valiulla Maksutov, 68, politician, senator (1996).[25]
• 19 January
  • Maya Menglet, 87, actress (It Happened in Penkovo, Chance, Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats).[26]
  • Andrey Popov, 59, politician, MP (1993–1995).[27]
  • Arsen Sukhovsky, actor (Non-Orphanage).[28]
  • Vera Votintseva, 56, singer-songwriter.[29]
• 22 January
  • Vadim Mikhailov, 91, Russian film director, screenwriter (The Year of the Dog) and writer.[30]
• 23 January
  • German Klimov, 81, athlete and screenwriter (Sport, Sport, Sport, Farewell).[31]
  • Dolores Kondrashova, 86, hairdresser.[32]
  • Valeri Urin, 88, football player (Dynamo Moscow, Daugava Riga, Soviet Union national team) and manager.[33]
• 27 January
  • Alexander Pushnitsa, 73, sambo practitioner, cancer.[34]
• 28 January
  • Evgeny Mogilevsky, 77, pianist.[35]
  • Vyacheslav Nazaruk, 81, animator (Leopold the Cat), painter and sculptor.[36]
  • Vasily Zakharyashchev, 77, politician, deputy (2007–2011).[37]
• 30 January
  • Viktor Ageyev, 86, water polo player, Olympic silver medallist (1960).[38]