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President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze October 6, 2002, 21:40 Chisinau

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Armenian President Robert Kocharian October 6, 2002, 21:00 Chisinau

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko October 6, 2002, 19:50 Chisinau

President Putin held a meeting with Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin October 6, 2002, 18:40 Chisinau

President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma met with the directors of Ukrainian and Russian aircraft plants October 6, 2002, 17:00 Zaporozhye

President Vladimir Putin visited the Dnieper hydroelectric plant on the 70th anniversary of its construction October 6, 2002, 16:00 Zaporozhye

October 5, 2002, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin met with Finnish President Tarja Halonen October 5, 2002, 18:35 St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin met with winners and organisers of the “Russian Teacher of the Year” contest October 5, 2002, 14:20 The Kremlin, Moscow

October 4, 2002, Friday

President Vladimir Putin met with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos October 4, 2002, 13:30 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin signed the decree On Rendering Invalid the Decree of the RSFSR President of August 27, 1991 On the Bureau of the Independent Radio Station Liberty/Free Europe October 4, 2002, 00:00

October 3, 2002, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Commission for Military-Technical Cooperation with Other Countries October 3, 2002, 19:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met with Governor of Taimyr Alexander Khloponin, Alexander Uss, Speaker of the Krasnoyarsk Legislature, and Acting Governor of Krasnoyarsk Nikolai Ashlapov October 3, 2002, 18:05 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met with Mikhail Fradkov, Director of the Federal Tax Police Service October 3, 2002, 16:00 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin congratulated German President Johannes Rau and Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on German Unity Day October 3, 2002, 00:00

October 2, 2002, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on his winning of International Statesman of the Year Award 2002 October 2, 2002, 00:00

October 1, 2002, Tuesday

Vladimir Putin met with Yuri Lyubimov, artistic director of the Taganka Theatre, who celebrated his 85th birthday the day before October 1, 2002, 14:45 Novo-Ogaryovo

Vladimir Putin met with Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin October 1, 2002, 14:00 Novo-Ogaryovo

Vladimir Putin congratulated Jiang Zemin, Chairman of the People's Republic of China, on the 53rd anniversary of the republic October 1, 2002, 00:00

September 30, 2002, Monday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Finnish President Tarja Halonen September 30, 2002, 19:55

President Putin had talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon September 30, 2002, 13:40 The Kremlin, 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."