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August 8, 2001, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin met with the North Korean leader, Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong-il August 8, 2001, 18:00 Moscow

President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill on government registration of legal entities in the Russian Federation August 8, 2001, 00:00

August 7, 2001, Tuesday

Vladimir Putin sent a response to Lyudmila Avanesova, a survivor of the WWII Leningrad siege, who now lives in the Latvian capital, Riga August 7, 2001, 00:00

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

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