What was the news picture on this day - May 31 every year over the past 20 years

In the Newsru.com archive , accumulated over 21 years of work, you can find the news of every day - both the world and Putin's Russia since the summer of 2000.

For a clear example, we decided to see what was significant on this day (May 31) since the beginning of the century. But try to study the events yourself, offer to study the news calendar to your children, and some - even to grandchildren, those who were born and live all their lives under Putin.

On this day 20 years ago ( May 31, 2001 ):
Putin took control of Gazprom , appointing Miller the head of the gas giant (this subordinate Putin at the City Hall of St. Petersburg remains the chairman of the board of Gazprom);
Putin once again met with Lukashenko about the Union State (this WHO is still there );
The Kremlin decided to appoint his "" premiere in Ukraine ;
Matvienko did not believe that scientists of the Russian Federation would be forced to report for contacts with foreigners , and it became 18 years later .

On this day 19 years ago ( May 31, 2002 ):
In Russia, they have already begun to erect monuments to Putin ;
Alina Kabaeva accused of using doping filed an appeal to court (to the world scandal with Russian doping for another 18 years);
The Goskomstat (now Rosstat) announced that a third of Russians lives beyond the poverty line (now little has changed - about 25% of Russians behind the "line of risk of poverty" );
The cost of a liter of gasoline AI-95 increased on this day to 10 rubles, that is, $ 0.32 (today a liter of AI-95 costs an average of 50 rubles, i.e. $ 0.68, twice as expensive);
Putin began state reform to deprive the Russian regions of the authorities , carried out the reform of the deputy head of the Presidential Administration Dmitry Kozak (he is still in the same position).

On this day 18 years ago ( May 31, 2003 ):
President Putin, at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, recalled that Peter I, who laid this city, “dreamed of a strong and open country open to the world , he discovered Russia for peace and peace for Russia,” (by 2021, Putin, who considers himself a successor to Peter’s case, practically closed Russia from the world);
On the same day, Putin at the Russia-Es summit in St. Petersburg announced that the Russian Federation and the European Union will study the introduction of visa-free trips for Russians (now only sanctions are imposed in the EU in relation to the Russian Federation);
The president also decided to “clear the blockages” 18 years ago in relations with European partners (but over the past 18 years, Russia has grown even more “rubble” with the EU and the USA );
On the same day in 2003, Putin promised to provide Chechnya with a wide autonomy , which he later made, giving the republic to the republic of Ramzan Kadyrov, who established a dictatorship there.

On this day 17 years ago ( May 31, 2004 ):
Putin at the Presidium of the State Council announced the need to reduce the number of state apparatus in Russia . Over 20 years in Russia, the number of officials of various levels has more than doubled compared to 1995 - up to 5 million. Now, in 2021, the government again announced the need to reduce ;
On this day, 17 years ago, scientists and teachers wrote a letter to Putin with a protest against the exam, saying that this is a destructive experiment for education . They did not listen to scientists then. Now, in 2021, the State Duma was finally offered to cancel the exam ;
On this day in 2004, the Western media, commenting on Putin’s next message to the Federal Assembly (it took place five days earlier), noted that the President of the Russian Federation chose a new target - “non -governmental organizations” criticizing him (human rights groups, charity funds, etc.). As Inopressa wrote then, quoting The New York Times and The Washington Post, Putin promised the Russians economic success, but this cannot be achieved "without openness and increasing the level of public consciousness, which can only provide independent non -governmental organizations". But now, after 17 years, the process of destroying NPO- "foreign agents" in Putin Russia can be considered completed.

On this day 16 years ago ( May 31, 2005 ):
Former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to 9 years in prison , he was taken away from his disagreement with the president;
On the same day, the center of Yuri Levada* published a study that almost 60% of Russians did not believe in the impartiality of Russian courts (now nothing has changed - in 2021 the fear of the "non -legal" courts came to first place with the latest protests);
It is difficult to believe, but 16 years ago, the Russians did not have the opportunity to call for free on the mobile - on May 31 in 2005, the mininforms ordered the operators to give at least three free seconds to a call, regardless of the tariff;
On that day, 16 years ago, the New Gazeta said that Putin was presented with a 57 -meter yacht for $ 50 million (over the next years, Putin will have many more gifts - from amazing sports records to amazing palaces ).

On this day 15 years ago ( May 31, 2006 ):
The World Bank predicted that there would be no default in Russia , and the ruble would continue to strengthen, although world investment flows reached the level of the pre -crisis 1997, which meant the beginning of a new period of high instability. But the BB prediction came true only in part - the global financial crisis that broke out in 2008 and the followed "great recession" hit Russia tightly . The capitalization of companies in the Russian Federation fell by 3/4; The gold and foreign exchange reserves were reduced by 25%, several large banks went bankrupt. 2008 was the last year of growth in the able -bodied population in Russia;
On this day, 15 years ago, the relatives of the victims in Beslan appealed to Nurpash Kulaev, saying that the court refused to consider testimonies about the death of hostages. The fact is that the official version of the death of children during the assault on the Beslan school does not coincide with the testimony of eyewitnesses. Parents of the victims said that the authorities are trying to quickly close the investigation and bury their requirements to find out the truth. Then the court issued a sentence, without spilling the light onmany issues objectionable to the Kremlin . After 16 years, these issues, confirming the version of the fault of the authorities , have not disappeared, and no one answered them;
On this day in 2006, for the first time, Yandex opened a service on traffic jams on the roads of Moscow and the region. Since then, the situation on the roads of the capital has changed a lot - the movement has become organized, paid parking has appeared that reduced traffic in the center, the allocated bands for public transport appeared, but 10 -point traffic jams are as usual as 15 years ago, so the Yandex service has been extremely in demand and continues to expand its functionality;
On May 31, 2006, the candidate from the democratic opposition of Belarus Alexander Milinkevich, who did not win the presidential election of 2006, during an official visit to Paris called the countries of Europe to help the Belarusian opposition . He announced his intention in the next two years to peacefully eliminate the regime of Alexander Lukashenko and hold free elections ... 15 years have passed. Lukashenko is still president. But the opposition is almost no longer there: criminal cases have been instituted on its leaders, they are accused of conspiracies, coups and attempts to kill Lukashenko, and objectionable human rights and public organizations were declared, following the example of Russia, destructive and hostile ;
On this day in 2006, the Chechen terrorist N1 Shamil Basayev (the organizer of the hostage capture in Budennovsk in 1995) is still alive and eventravels with the inspection throughout the North Caucasus. He still does not know that after 40 days he will be liquidated in Ingushetia as a result of a special operation - the terrorist was beheaded as a result of the explosion filled with explosives of KamAZ.

On this day 14 years ago ( May 31, 2007 ):
An employee of the Russian intelligence services Andrei Lugovoi, accused of the UK of Polotini's poisoning, Alexander Litvinenko , who later became a State Duma deputy from the LDPR, announced that Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Litvinenko, agents of British foreign intelligence, MI -6 and collected a compromise for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In response, Berezovsky again accused Putin that he personally gave the order to kill Litvinenko. Six years later, Berezovsky, old enemy Putin, did not become - he was found hanged in the bathroom in his own house in the British county of Berkshire. The cause of death was never finally established . Over the next 14 years, many more businessmen, politicians and public figures died under suspicious circumstances, or were killed, or became victims of attempts - Ponomarev ,Skripal , Glushkov , Nemtsov , Voronenkov , Khangoshvili , Kara -Caus , Kuashev , Magomedrahimov , Isaev , Navalny ...;
On this day, 14 years ago in North Ossetia, a result of a catastrophe studies in the Karmadon Gorge was announced, where 125 people were killed as a result of the Kolka glacier in 2002, including the crew of Sergei Bodrov . According to scientists, the group of Sergei Bodrov died due to the gas emission of a sleeping volcano ;
On this day, the Gorky Automobile Plant at the Autoforum 2007 in Nizhny Novgorod introduced the new light “City-wen” class LCV (GAZ-2332). In that year, this van was called the most promising Russian auto -development. But, despite the demand for this machine in the Russian market, this compact rebellious van, alas, did not go to the series. First, the project was postponed in a “long box”, and then completely withdrawn from the turnover. According to the official version, the program was turned due to the stuck financial crisis;
And the American media that day announced that Angelina Jolie accepted a marriage proposal from Brad Pitt and plans a wedding. It is unlikely that someone would have believed 14 years ago thateverything would end so badly and the third marriage of the Hollywood beauty will turn out as unsuccessfully as the previous ones.

On this day 10 years ago ( May 31, 2011 ):
ceased to exist the Internet media gzt.ru. Journalists of the publication have fun with readers, publishing a selection of their own typos. The reason for the closure of the project was the loss of interest in it, as a federal project, from the owner - billionaire Vladimir Lisin. On the eve of the Duma elections, the businessman wanted to abandon his inconvenient socio-political publication, transferring him to the format of a purely city project. This was done in September 2012 - the site was restarted under the brand "Information portal city notes Gzt.ru". In this capacity, he quietly lasted another 8 years, and then, imperceptibly for everyone, sunk into oblivion. The last note on the site dates from December 2020;
On this day, the Bank of Russia announced that according to the results of 2011, the outflow of capital from Russia would not exceed $ 35 billion . But the bank was mistaken. More than $ 81 billion was withdrawn from the Russian Federation that year. Three years later, in 2014, President Vladimir Putin will declare war offshore, hoping to stop the outflow. However, the withdrawal of capital from the country will only intensify due to the sanctions imposed on that year against Russia as a result of Putin’s actions in Crimea and in the east of Ukraine. In 2014, more than $ 152 billion have been withdrawn from the Russian Federation - this is a record indicator since 1994. In the next three years, this process was slowed down (in 2015 - about $ 60 billion, in 2016 - about $ 18 billion, in 2017 - more than $ 30 billion). Then the outflow of capital intensified again - according to the results of 2018, it amounted to $ 67 billion, in 2019 - more than $ 40 billion, and in 2020 - about $ 50 billion;
On this day, the Preobrazhensky court of Moscow received petitions for parole (parole) from Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, who had served 7.5 years from 13 appointed at that time. In their petitions, both prisoners, recognized in Europe by political, did not admit their guilt. The court left both petitions without consideration. But after 2.5 years, in December 2013, on the eve of the Olympics in Sochi, President Putin decided to have mercy on Khodorkovsky, "guided by the principles of humanity." This happened on the day of an employee of the security bodies of the Russian Federation (Chekist's Day). At that time, Khodorkovsky remained to sit only 10 months. Lebedev was released in January 2014;
On this day, the murder of the murder of the journalist of Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya Rustam Makhmudov, was detained in Chechnya. Subsequently, the court sentenced him to life imprisonment. In total, five people were in the dock: in addition to Rustam Makhmudov, these were Ibrahim and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs, their uncle Lom Ali Gaitukaev, as well as Sergey Khadzhikurbanov. The customer of the murder of Politkovskaya has not yet been established, the criminal case against him has been allocated in a separate proceeding. Relatives and colleagues of Politkovskaya believe that the customer of the murder occupies not the last place in the Russian power hierarchy.

On this day 5 years ago ( May 31, 2016 ):
Evgeny Prigozhin from the "cohort of close friends" of President Vladimir Putin filed 15 claims to Yandex due to the failures of the service to remove links from the search results under the "Law on oblivion" . Since the adoption of this law, all Russian media, news sites and portals regularly began to receive complaints from officials, politicians and businessmen who had previously committed some kind of unlawful act, but for some reason decided that the new law gives them the right to forget about it and erase their actions from history. However, the law does not provide for the possibility of deleting information about criminal cases and investigations and does not give the right to recognize such information irrelevant;
On this day, 5 years ago, a collection of signatures began on the network against the renaming of the bridge across the Duderhof Canal in St. Petersburg in honor of the first president of the Chechen Republic Akhmat Kadyrov, who has nothing to do with St. Petersburg. Although the petition gained the required number of signatures, it was ignored by the authorities. Since June 15, 2016 in St. Petersburg there is a bridge named after Akhmat Kadyrov. As the St. Petersburg politician Valery Fedotov wrote that day, breaking his United Russia party card in protest against political repressions in the country, Petersburg voluntarily associated himself with the war , terrorism, jihad and despotion ”;
On this day, 5 years ago, since 2004, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow’s recognition of self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) in eastern Ukraine is “counter -productive” . He literally repeated the thesis of President Putin from 2015 about the "counterproductivity" of such recognition . However, by 2021, Russia actually recognized these republics, since it actively provides them with financial assistance, humanitarian assistance, since February 2017 recognized passports, documents on education, certificates of registration of vehicles, their registration signs, introduced benefits for citizens with passports of the DPR and LPR. In official events, President Putin already calls these territories as the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. Official recognition so far interferes with formalities. But they, apparently, will soon be overcome. To the upcoming elections to the State Duma, the question of recognizing the DPR and LPR is included in the political agenda. On May 29, 2021, the party "Fair Russia - for Truth", led by Sergei Mironov, adopted a resolution on the need to recognize the DPR and LPR.

On this day 4 years ago ( May 31, 2017 ):
In the morning of May 31, the Ministry of Emergencies had to explain why the ministry did not warn Muscovites about the impending hurricane, which took 16 people on May 29 and caused damage to several hundred million rubles. From that very day, the Ministry of Emergencies regularly sends Muscovites SMS messages about the upcoming weather threats, even if they do not fall under an emergency;
On the same day, it became known that the administration of the President of the Russian Federation decided to hire a special adviser on social networks . He became the Minister of Information Technology of the Moscow Region Maksut Shadaev. After 2.5 years, Putin appointed him the head of the Ministry of Communications (the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Communications of the Russian Federation). The first initiative of Shadaev as the minister was an offer to give law enforcement officers access to citizens data online without a court decision;
On the same day, the Lublin Court of Moscow ordered the opposition and founder of the Corruption Foundation* (FBK*) Alexei Navalny to delete the publication about Alisher Usmanov, including the film "He is not Dimon for you" , which reported the "huge house" and the plot, which were donated to the Usman Fund related to Dmitry Medvedev. These "gifts" were called a bribe.

These are only a few examples of what has occurred on May 31 in the last two decades. From today, we cease to publish news, nevertheless, the already published news is the story that should be known.