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April 2, 2002, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with US President George W. Bush April 2, 2002, 19:40

President Vladimir Putin had an informal meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi April 2, 2002, 18:30 Sochi

President Vladimir Putin congratulated Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Russia-Belarus Unity Day April 2, 2002, 00:00

April 1, 2002, Monday

President Vladimir Putin met with Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov April 1, 2002, 19:30 Sochi

President Vladimir Putin appointed Secretary of State, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Valery Loshchinin as Special Envoy of the Russian President on Georgian-Abkhaz conflict settlement April 1, 2002, 00:00

March 30, 2002, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin met with Secretaries of Security Councils of Caucasian Four countries March 30, 2002, 19:00 Sochi

President Vladimir Putin sent condolences to Queen Elizabeth II on the death of the Queen Mother March 30, 2002, 00:00

March 27, 2002, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with US President George W. Bush March 27, 2002, 16:30

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with President Vladimir Voronin of Moldova March 27, 2002, 16:00

March 26, 2002, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Hamid Karzai, head of Afghanistan's interim administration, expressing condolences on the loss of thousands of lives in an earthquake March 26, 2002, 00:00

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the Arab summit to be held in Beirut on March 27–28 March 26, 2002, 00:00

March 23, 2002, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan March 23, 2002, 14:30

March 22, 2002, Friday

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the socio-economic development of the Krasnoyarsk Region March 22, 2002, 19:30 Krasnoyarsk

President Vladimir Putin visited Oktyabrsky Mine in Talnakh, a town forming part of the Norilsk municipality March 22, 2002, 10:30 Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous District

March 20, 2002, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin chaired a joint meeting of the Security Council, the State Council presidium and the presidential Council on Science and High Technologies March 20, 2002, 19:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Chinese President Jiang Zemin March 20, 2002, 16:20

President Vladimir Putin chaired a Defence Ministry meeting on the strategy and future prospects of defence planning March 20, 2002, 13:00 Moscow

March 19, 2002, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin met with Slovak President Rudolf Schuster in the Kremlin March 19, 2002, 22:30 Moscow

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko March 19, 2002, 20:40

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev March 19, 2002, 13:30

"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."