In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.

In September 2002, the Armenian government handed over Armenia ’ s largest cement factory to the Russian ITERA gas exporter in payment for its $ 10 million debt for past gas deliveries.

* 2002 – A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.

According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.

The first post-Soviet Russian Census was carried out in 2002, followed by the 2010 Census.

* Jones, D. and M. Trofimov ( 1923 ), " The Pronunciation of Russian ", Cambridge: CUP ; rpt in facsimile in Jones ( 2002 ).

Eventually in 2002, Grenada re-established diplomatic relations with the newly formed Russian Federation.

MV Esperanza, a former fire-fighter owned by the Russian Navy, was relaunched by Greenpeace in 2002

* 1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

As of the 2002 All-Russian Population Census, the majority of the 358, 801 population is Russian ( 290, 108 ), largest minorities are Ukrainian ( 20, 870 ) and Koryak ( 7, 328 ).

* 1909 – Nikolay Guryanov, Russian mystic and priest ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.

* In a 2002 episode of The West Wing, Rob Lowe ( Sam Seaborn ) and Ian McShane ( portraying a Russian negotiator ) have a conversation about how the word ' frumpy ' " onomatopoetically sounds right ".

In November 2002, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posted the first of a series of eprints on arXiv outlining a solution of the Poincaré conjecture.

* Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002

** Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer ( d. 2002 )

** Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

* September 18 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut ( d. 2002 )

In 2002, a satyrical short-story The First Russian ( პირველი რუსი ) penned by the young Georgian writer Lasha Bughadze and focused on a frustrated wedding night of Tamar and Yuri outraged many conservatives and triggered a nationwide controversy, including heated discussions in the media, the Parliament of Georgia and the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

* START II, signed 1993, ratified 1996 ( United States ) and 2000 ( Russia ), terminated following Russian withdrawal 2002

* 2002: Arion, a poem by Alexander Pushkin, translated from the Russian, with a note by Olga Carlisle, Arion Press

* FC SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk is the city's best football team, playing in the Russian First Division which is the second tier of Russian football since 2002 season.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, use of Jaŋalif was revived, but the Cyrillic script was again enforced in 2002, when the Russian Federation passed a controversial law enforcing the use of Cyrillic for all official languages.

In Russia, the Evenks are recognized as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North, with a population of 35, 527 ( 2002 Census ).

The second census was taken in the autumn 2002.

The last census was in 2002 ( although having been planned for 2001 ), the previous one was in 1991 and the next is planned for 2011.

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia conducted the second census in 2002.

The census in 2002 involved some 50, 000 enumerators and supervisors.

female: 87. 2 % ( 2002 census )

The Dar es Salaam Region had a population of 2, 497, 940 as of the official 2002 census.

As of the 2002 census, the metropolitan area had a population of 2. 3 million.

The 2002 population census in Georgia revealed a net migration loss of 1. 1 million persons, or 20 % of the population, since the early 90s.

72. 54 % ( 2002 census )

The population is 633 ( all on Robinson Crusoe ); of those 598 reside in the capital, San Juan Bautista, on Cumberland Bay on the north coast of the island ( 2002 census ).

In the Polish census of 2002, only 5, 100 people declared Kashubian nationality

* 2, 022, 547 ( 2002 census )

Ethnicity in Romania by county ( inhabitants ) based on the 2002 census data

Ethnicity in Romania by county (%) based on 2002 census data

According to the 2002 census, Slovenia's main ethnic group are the Slovenes ( 83 %).

The population at the 2002 census was 9, 561, and the population is estimated to reach 10, 544 in July 2011.

According to the most recent census of 2002, the total population of Zanzibar was 984, 625 – with an annual growth rate of 3. 1 percent.

According to the 2002 census, around two thirds of the people – 622, 459 – live on Zanzibar Island ( Unguja ), with the greatest proportion settled in the densely populated west.

According to provisional data from 2011 census, 1, 677, 985 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census.

As per provisional data from 2011 census, 1, 677, 985 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census.

The city's population, according to the 2002 census, was 1, 926, 334 inhabitants, or 8. 9 % of the total population of Romania.