The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer ( d. 2004 )

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – U. S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

* 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Jess Collins, American artist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.

* 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

* 2004 – Paul Atkinson, British guitarist ( The Zombies ) ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* 2004 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager ( b. 1952 )

* 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

* 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

* 1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal ( d. 2004 )

* 1926 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster ( b. 1924 )

* Nikolai Getman ( 1917 – 2004 ), Ukrainian artist

In November 2004, Nikolai Tolstoy published Patrick O ' Brian: The Making of the Novelist, the first volume in a two-part biography of O ' Brian using material from the Russ and Tolstoy families and sources, including O ' Brian's personal papers and library, which Tolstoy inherited on O ' Brian's death.

In 2004, Dafoe lent his likeness and voice for the James Bond video game Everything or Nothing as the villain Nikolai Diavolo, and starred as NYPD detective Stan Aubray in the thriller Anamorph ( 2006 ).

The Communist candidate ( of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or Communist Party of the Russian Federation ) has finished second in every case: Nikolai Ryzhkov in 1991, Gennady Zyuganov in 1996, 2000 and 2008 and Nikolay Kharitonov in 2004.

Nicolai Ghiaurov ( or Nikolai Gjaurov, Nikolay Gyaurov, ) ( September 13, 1929 – June 2, 2004 ) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basses of the postwar period.

Richards played for Ak Bars Kazan in the Russian Super League during the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout on a team with fellow NHL ' ers Ilya Kovalchuk, Alexei Kovalev, Vincent Lecavalier, Michael Nylander, Alexei Zhitnik, Dany Heatley, and Nikolai Khabibulin.

Jaws ' principal video game appearances are in the 1997 Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007 in a bonus mission in which he is a henchman to the deceased Hugo Drax whom Bond needs to defeat, and has a multiple appearances in and the multi-platform 2004 game 007: Everything or Nothing as a henchman to Nikolai Diavolo.

Yakusheva competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Nikolai Zuyev.

In 2004, Rebellion entered a deal with DC Comics to reprint several 2000 AD stories in trade paperback form, including Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Nikolai Dante, and Sinister Dexter.

In 2004, Natalia Konsistorum published, in Russian, Nikolai Karlovich Medtner: Portrait of a Composer ( ISBN 3-89487-500-3 ).

* Nikolai Dante: The Romanov Dynasty ( November 2004, ISBN 1-904265-20-0 ):

On August 21, 2004, he and Eckos entered a tag team battle royal as The Bushwhackers, the Road Warriors, and the team of the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff.

In 2004, Art Silverblatt and Nikolai Zlobin described Tehelka as a " muckraking site " in their book " International Communications: A Media Literacy Approach "

Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh () ( October 6, 1931 – May 26, 2004 ) was a Soviet and Russian astronomer.

( 2004 ), two out of a sample of sixteen ( or 12. 5 %) Ainu men have been found to belong to Haplogroup C3, which is the most common Y-chromosome haplogroup among the indigenous populations of the Russian Far East and Mongolia.

After the Fall: Essays in Russian and Soviet Historiography ( Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2004 )

* Mars ( 2004 film ), a 2004 Russian film

In May 2004, Moldova redeemed promissory notes with a total value of $ 114. 5 million to Russian Gazprom for just $ 50 million.

* 1941 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast ( b. 1945 )

* 2004 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player ( b. 1941 )

In May 2004, the Russian edition of Forbes identified 36 of these oligarchs as being worth at least $ 1 billion.

According to the data of the Maritime Board ( Morskaya Kollegiya ) of the Russian Government for 2004, 136. 6 million tons of cargo have been carried that year over Russia's inland waterways, the total cargo transportation volume being 87, 556. 5 million ton-km.

Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Seoul in February 2001, while South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun visited Moscow in September 2004.

In 2004, the Russian Cossack folk dance had nine concerts in Port of Spain, San Fernando, Couva, and Tobago

During the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, it is theorized that a multitude of hand-held thermobaric weapons were used by the Russian Armed Forces in their efforts to retake the school.

* Fine Arts Russian Academy, St. Petersburg, 2004

In 2004, Vietnam began to build a nuclear power plant with Russian assistance.

" The following estimates of civilian deaths during World War I were made by a Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century: Kenya 30, 000 ; Tanzania 100, 000 ; Mozambique 50, 000 ; Rwanda 15, 000 ; Burundi 20, 000 ; and the Belgian Congo 150, 000.

Romania: Included in total are 177, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The statistic of 250, 000 military dead is " The figure reported by the Rumanian Government in reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office Other estimates of Romanian casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: 335, 706 Killed and missing By US War Dept in 1924: 335, 706 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 430, 000, caused by military action, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Romanian civilian deaths due to military activity, 10, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons and 200, 000 caused by famine and disease

By US War Dept in 1924: 45, 000 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 450, 000, due to military activity, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Serbian civilian deaths due to military activity and 30, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons.

A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 civilian deaths due to military activity in Austro-Hungarian Galicia.

In the 2004 movie Catwoman, the feline protagonist orders “ White Russian, no ice, no vodka … hold the Kahlua ”, i. e. just milk or cream.

* March 26 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast ( d. 2004 )

* May 5 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player ( d. 2004 )

** Russian presidential election, 2004: Vladimir Putin easily wins a second term.

The WE Youth Political Organization, which advocates Russian citizenship for Sevastopol residents, published a poll in 2004 claiming " 72 % of the Sevastopol citizens support the idea of the independent status of Crimea.