1 January - the Euro introduced in non-cash transactions
January 12 - Ousted Malian dictator Moussa traoré and his wife were sentenced to death for major theft
January 24th - Columbia. A strong earthquake, over 700 dead, over 3,000 wounded
January 25 - about a thousand people died because of the earthquake in Colombia.
January 28 - Moscow hosted the final of the first international beauty contest "Miss Commonwealth"
January 31 - the first part of the cult game series Silent Hill (the first video game in the genre of survival horror)
16 February in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) there was a terrorist attack — a series of explosions
February 16 - in Belarus began the census
On 20 February in Moscow in the Kremlin Palace the premiere of film Nikita Mikhalkov