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Acting President Vladimir Putin visited Boris Yeltsin to wish Russia's first president a happy birthday February 1, 2000, 10:30 Gorki-9 Residence

January 31, 2000, Monday

Acting President, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign States January 31, 2000, 16:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Justice January 31, 2000, 14:00 Moscow

Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with his deputy prime ministers and the heads of the security agencies January 31, 2000, 11:00 The Government House, Moscow

Acting President Vladimir Putin congratulated Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan on his appointment January 31, 2000, 00:00

Acting President Vladimir Putin considered a proposal by Anatoly Lisitsin, the governor of the Yaroslavl Region, on the participation of Russian regions in rebuilding the areas of Dagestan which suffered from the terrorist attack in the summer of 1999 January 31, 2000, 00:00

Acting President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat January 31, 2000, 00:00

January 30, 2000, Sunday

Acting President Vladimir Putin congratulated Uzbek President Islam Karimov on his birthday in a telephone conversation January 30, 2000, 12:35

Acting President Vladimir Putin forwarded messages to the Vietnamese president and prime minister congratulating them on the 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations January 30, 2000, 00:00

January 28, 2000, Friday

Acting President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Prime Minister of Japan Keizo Obuchi January 28, 2000, 13:15

Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) January 28, 2000, 12:10 The Kremlin, Moscow

Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a resolution of the Cabinet approving the intergovernmental Russian-Italian draft agreement on Italy's assistance in the destruction of Russia's chemical weapons stockpiles January 28, 2000, 00:00

Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a resolution of the Cabinet approving the draft of the Russian-Belarusian intergovernmental agreement on the creation of the Defence Systems interstate financial-industrial holding January 28, 2000, 00:00

January 27, 2000, Thursday

Acting President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee January 27, 2000, 21:00

Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Koshman, government envoy to Chechnya, reported on the situation in the North Caucasus to Acting President Vladimir Putin January 27, 2000, 13:50 The Government House, Moscow

Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mikhail Kasyanov January 27, 2000, 13:00 The Government House, Moscow

Acting President Vladimir Putin chaired a cabinet meeting January 27, 2000, 10:50 The Government House, Moscow

Acting President Vladimir Putin sent a message to paratroopers going to Bosnia and Herzegovina to act as peacekeepers January 27, 2000, 00:00

Acting President Vladimir Putin wished Moldovan President Petru Lucinschi a happy 60th birthday January 27, 2000, 00:00

January 26, 2000, Wednesday

Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Joseph Blatter, president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), discussed the popularisation and development of soccer January 26, 2000, 21:30 Olimpiisky Sports Center, 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."