In particular, he was invited to play at the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow because the organizers wanted to give a " more Russian appearance " of the contest.

* 1923 – Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and statesman ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist ( b. 1925 )

* 1958 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist ( d. 2009 )

As part of the official welcome ceremony of a foreign head of state, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is inspecting a Serbian Armed Forces | Serbian guard of honour | guard of honor escorted by President of Serbia | Serbian President Boris Tadić, on the former's visit to Serbia in 2009.

Russian BMP-2 during rehearsal a military parade in Yekaterinburg in May 2009.

Fewer than a third of all Russians regarded Stalin as a " murderous tyrant "; however, a Russian court in 2009, ruling on a suit by Stalin's grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, against the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, ruled that referring to Stalin as a " bloodthirsty cannibal " was not libel.

In a Kremlin video blog posted on 29 October 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev denounced the efforts of people seeking to rehabilitate Stalin's image.

* 2009 – Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director ( b. 1912 )

* 1966 – Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player ( d. 2009 )

* In August 2009, Russian customs officers had imposed special customs on Lithuanian trucks, lining up more than 20 kilometres of trucks from the Republic of Lithuania.

On his 90th birthday on 10 November 2009, Kalashnikov was named a " Hero of the Russian Federation " and presented with a medal by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating " the brand every Russian is proud of.

In August 2009, in an article written for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact as " immoral.

* 2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist ( b. 1916 )

* The February 10th, 2009, collision of a U. S. Iridium communications satellite ( Iridium 33 ) and a Russian Cosmos 2251 communications satellite, which added hundreds more pieces of debris to the atmosphere, highlighted the need for more precise tracking of space objects.

In 2009, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev suggested that Russia would be interested in pursuing the construction of the inter-oceanic waterway canal.

* 1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2009 )

The only woman to exceed 5 metres is Russian women's world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva, who reached that height in 2005 and who has in total broken the women's world-record ( indoor and outdoor ), 27 times, culminating in her current world record of 5. 06 metres obtained in 2009 at Letzigrund in Zurich.

In May 2009, Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, established the History Commission of Russia ( formally, the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests ) to counter aggressive attempts to rewrite history to Russian disadvantage, yet Alexander Cherkasov of the Memorial human-rights group, called it a regression to Soviet-era control.

During the First ( 1994 – 1996 ) and Second Chechen Wars ( 1999 – 2009 ), Chechen rebels used RPGs to attack Russian tanks from basements and high rooftops.

MLAE-2009 expedition crew reached the North Pole on April 26, 2009 at 1730 ( Moscow time ).

The 2009 History Channel series, Expedition Africa, documents a group of explorers attempting to traverse the route of Stanley's expedition in search of Livingstone.

* Gold prospecting expedition ( Jan. 2009 )— found by searching YouTube for 19A235689B75A9A7

* John Francis Ropek ( 1917 – 2009 ), Oceanographer for the first under the ice Polar expedition of the USS Nautilus ( SSN-571 ).

In November 2009 the Royal Australian Mint issued two coins, $ 1 and a 20 cent, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the expedition.

This voyage was more successful: Selkirk was rescued on 2 February 1709, and the expedition amassed nearly £ 200, 000 ( over £ 20, 000, 000 in 2009 ) of profit.

The STS-127 launched on 15 July 2009 and the mission delivered the Japanese Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section ( ELM-ES ) and new expedition member Timothy Kopra.

* A New Zealand television entertainment reporter, David Farrier of TV3 News took part in an expedition in August 2009 but came up empty-handed as well.

During the last week of January 2009, she recorded her offscreen role of the wife of climber George Mallory, who disappeared while climbing Mount Everest during a 1924 expedition, in the 2010 documentary film The Wildest Dream, for which Liam Neeson provides narration.

July 28th 2009 the sailing yacht RX II, 36 feet, with expedition leader Trond Aasvoll and crew Hans Fredrik Haukland and Finn Andreassen left Vardø in Norway on a quest to circumnavigate the North Pole.

The 2009 Mars expedition ship he was a crew member of was presumed lost in space.

Cherry's application to join the expedition was initially rejected as Scott was looking for scientists, but he made a second application along with a promise of £ 1, 000 ( 2009 approximation £ 50, 000 ) towards the cost of the expedition.

The expedition film, Fellowship of the Andes, premiered in New York City 28th Oct 2006. In 2007, was the speaker at Lehigh University's spring commencement ceremony on May 21. In 2009, he was a speaker at the Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference on January 19. In 2009, he was a speaker at the Babson College spring commencement ceremony on May 16 where he was also awarded a PhD in Humane Letters. In 2010, he led a group of 11 wounded veterans to the summit of Mt.

Water level measurement results of 2009 – 2010, collected during this expedition, showed that the water level rose up to above the sump " Two Captains " during June 2010.

Her husband, the oldest American ever to summit an " eight-thousander ", the world's fourteen mountains that surpass 8, 000 meters in altitude, died on a climbing expedition on September 25, 2009 while descending from the world's sixth tallest peak, Cho Oyu in Tibet.

Lars is a Martian who appeared, beginning on May 2, 2009, in a series of strips that involved Jeffrey building a spaceship and going on an expedition to Mars.

There were union conferences about this matter held in August 2009 which reached the conclusion to keep the treaty until pending investigation.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

Additional stations were opened recently and with the last one that opened on the 7th of September 2009, the subway reached total length of 18 kilometers with 14 stations.

As of 2009, the regional stock exchange ’ s market capitalization reached nearly 10 % of Burkina Faso ’ s GDP.

In 2009, CAMRA announced that it had reached the 100, 000 members mark and has since surpassed the 144, 000 members mark.

( British singer Vera Lynn reached the top of the chart in August 2009 at age 92, but with the greatest hits album, We'll Meet Again – The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

* The global data volume at the end of 2009 has reached 800 exabyte.

In 2005 – 06 this increased to 674 entrants, in 2006 – 07 to 687, in 2007 – 08 to 731 clubs, and for the 2008 – 09 and 2009 – 10 competitions it reached 762.

The strike lasted for 44 days, until an accord was reached on 5 March 2009.

Windows 7 is the current major release after Windows Vista and was released to manufacturing on 22 July 2009, and reached general retail availability on 22 October 2009.

This emerging bipolarity represents a major break from the fragmented, multi-party political landscape of the postwar era, although it appears to have reached a plateau, since efforts via referendums to further curtail the influence of small parties were defeated in 1999, 2000, and 2009.

Natural Resources Canada estimated that Canadian mining investment in Mali reached Cdn .$ 500 million in 2009, and in 2005, 73 mining concessions were held by Canadian firms in Mali.

Fulham have since continued to play in the Premiership, and reached the final of the 2009 – 10 UEFA Europa League.

On the night of January 6, 2009, an all-time record low of − 17. 5 ° C was reached at Weeze airport, and many other stations around Nijmegen reached record or near-record low temperatures, as low as − 21 ° C (− 5 ° F ) at some places.

The NBA and the regular referees reached a deal on October 23, 2009.

In September 2009 Western Australia's dams reached 50 % overall capacity for the first time since 2000.

In August 2009, Porsche SE and Volkswagen AG reached an agreement that the two companies would merge in 2011, to form an " Integrated Automotive Group ".

In 2006 President Hennessy launched a five-year campaign called the Stanford Challenge, which reached its $ 4. 3 billion fundraising goal in 2009, two years ahead of time, but continued fundraising for the duration of the campaign.

The longest-running drama in television and radio history, Guiding Light, barely reached 2. 1 millions daily viewers in 2009 and was ended.

Syria ’ s oil reserves are being gradually depleted and reached 2. 5 billion barrels in January 2009.