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President Vladimir Putin signed into law an anti-money laundering bill August 7, 2001, 00:00

August 6, 2001, Monday

President Vladimir Putin thanked security officers who had released 41 coach passengers taken hostage in the Stavropol Region on July 31 August 6, 2001, 14:30 Novo-Ogaryovo

August 4, 2001, Saturday

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with his visiting North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Il August 4, 2001, 19:30 The Kremlin, Moscow

August 2, 2001, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko August 2, 2001, 23:40 Bocharov Ruchei, Sochi

President Vladimir Putin addressed a news conference to summarise the informal CIS summit and his bilateral meetings with Commonwealth countries' heads of state August 2, 2001, 22:30 Sochi

CIS heads of state had an informal meeting August 2, 2001, 13:30 The Teahouses Tourist Centre, Sochi

August 1, 2001, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin met with Russian journalists August 1, 2001, 22:00 Dagomys, Sochi

President Vladimir Putin held a number of bilateral meetings with CIS leaders August 1, 2001, 21:20 Dagomys, Sochi

July 31, 2001, Tuesday

FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev reported to Vladimir Putin on the successful release of 25 hostages hijacked by a Chechen terrorist in the Stavropol territory July 31, 2001, 20:30

Vladimir Putin was briefed on a bus hijacking in the Stavropol territory July 31, 2001, 09:20

July 29, 2001, Sunday

Russian and Ukrainian Presidents took part in the celebrations to mark the Russian Navy Day July 29, 2001, 12:10 Sevastopol

President Vladimir Putin congratulated Alejandro Toledo Manrique on his inauguration as Peru's President July 29, 2001, 00:00

July 28, 2001, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma attended the consecration of St Vladimir's Cathedral July 28, 2001, 19:35 The Crimea

July 27, 2001, Friday

President Vladimir Putin met with Bavarian Prime Minister Dr Edmund Stoiber July 27, 2001, 18:05 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met with Guinea's President Lansana Conte July 27, 2001, 13:20 The Kremlin, Moscow

July 26, 2001, Thursday

A telephone conversation between President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin took place at the initiative of the Russian side July 26, 2001, 20:25

President Vladimir Putin chaired a Security Council meeting July 26, 2001, 17:40 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting on relief to the parts of Yakutia hit by flooding July 26, 2001, 15:45 The Kremlin, Moscow

The President met with members of the US Administration July 26, 2001, 13:35 The Kremlin, Moscow

July 25, 2001, Wednesday

The Presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine took part in the inauguration of the Day of Friendship of the Peoples of the Three Slavic States as part of the 10th International Slavic Bazaar Festival July 25, 2001, 20:20 Belarus, Vitebsk

"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."