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Federal Security Service Director Nikolai Patrushev and Internal Affairs Minister Boris Gryzlov reported to President Vladimir Putin about the hostage rescue operation completed at the theatre on Dubrovka Street October 26, 2002, 10:30 The Kremlin, Moscow

October 25, 2002, Friday

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Yevgeny Primakov October 25, 2002, 22:40 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who expressed sympathy over the hostage situation in Moscow October 25, 2002, 21:05

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with heads of State Duma parliamentary parties October 25, 2002, 18:50 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma October 25, 2002, 17:40

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair October 25, 2002, 16:20

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov October 25, 2002, 15:30 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin had telephone conversation with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan October 25, 2002, 13:15

October 24, 2002, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac October 24, 2002, 22:15

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder October 24, 2002, 20:55

President Vladimir Putin met with State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznyov October 24, 2002, 19:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin had telephone conversations with US President George W. Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who expressed compassion in connection with the hostage-taking attack in Moscow October 24, 2002, 17:10

President Vladimir Putin met with spokesmen of Muslim clergy October 24, 2002, 15:35 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met with Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, Georgy Poltavchenko, the presidential envoy to the Central Federal District, Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov and Vladimir Pronin, the Moscow chief of police October 24, 2002, 14:45 The Kremlin, Moscow

Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov and Federal Security Service Director Nikolai Patrushev reported on the situation in the Dubrovka Theatre Centre to President Vladimir Putin October 24, 2002, 14:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin had an emergency meeting with Federal Security Service Director Nikolai Patrushev and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov October 24, 2002, 01:15 The Kremlin, Moscow

The hostage-taking attack in Moscow caused President Vladimir Putin to cancel his meeting with German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Berlin and a visit to Portugal October 24, 2002, 00:00

October 23, 2002, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin was informed about the seizure of hostages in Moscow October 23, 2002, 22:15

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the State Council on the development of local self-government October 23, 2002, 12:30 The Kremlin, Moscow

October 22, 2002, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev had a telephone conversation October 22, 2002, 15:00

"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."