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President Vladimir Putin introduced the draft of the decree “On the Use of Military Formations of the Russian Armed Forces in the International Security Presence in Kosovo, the Union Republic of Yugoslavia” to Chairman of the Federation Council Yegor Stroyev December 12, 2000, 00:00

December 11, 2000, Monday

President Vladimir Putin signed a document “On Signing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and the Supplementary Protocols against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, and to Prevent, Suppress and Penalise Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children” December 11, 2000, 00:00

December 9, 2000, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin took part in the opening ceremony of the first President's Cup international judo tournament December 9, 2000, 16:20 The Palace Of Sports, Magnitogorsk

President Vladimir Putin visited the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) December 9, 2000, 16:10 Magnitogorsk

President Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulation to Askar Akayev on his inauguration as President of the Kyrgyz Republic December 9, 2000, 00:00

President Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic, on his 80th birthday December 9, 2000, 00:00

December 8, 2000, Friday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with President Bill Clinton of the United States December 8, 2000, 20:15

President Vladimir Putin sent a letter to President Robert Kocharian of Armenia December 8, 2000, 00:00

December 7, 2000, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma December 7, 2000, 22:15

President Vladimir Putin met with Vladimir Potanin, the president of the Interros holding December 7, 2000, 19:20 The Kremlin, Moscow

US national Edmond Pope, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for espionage, appealed to President Vladimir Putin for pardon December 7, 2000, 18:30

President Vladimir Putin signed the federal law on the abrogation of provisos to the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, of June 17, 1925 December 7, 2000, 00:00

December 6, 2000, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with President Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland December 6, 2000, 15:05

December 5, 2000, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Moldova Petru Lucinschi December 5, 2000, 19:00

President Putin met with Yevgeny Primakov, chairman of the Fatherland — All Russia party in the State Duma December 5, 2000, 18:20 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Putin sent a message to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien December 5, 2000, 00:00

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Muammar al-Qaddafi, leader of the Libyan revolution December 5, 2000, 00:00

December 4, 2000, Monday

President Vladimir Putin submitted bills on Russia's national symbols to the State Duma December 4, 2000, 21:00

The President stated his intention to immediately submit bills on the flag and state coat-of-arms of the Russian Federation to the State Duma and to ask deputies to approve the music for the state anthem December 4, 2000, 20:50 Moscow

President Vladimir Putin chaired an expanded meeting of the State Council's Presidium December 4, 2000, 17:35 The Kremlin, Moscow

"We remember the lessons of World War II and will never agree with the distortion of those events or attempts to justify the murderers and slander the true victors."