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August 14, 2001, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin visited the Russian-Czech Spartak Cup ice hockey match August 14, 2001, 22:15 The Sokolniki Sports Palace, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin visited the 5th Moscow international aerospace show MAKS 2001 August 14, 2001, 14:30 Zhukovsky, The Moscow Region

President Vladimir Putin congratulated Fidel Castro, President of the Republic of Cuba, on his 75th birthday August 14, 2001, 00:00

August 13, 2001, Monday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov August 13, 2001, 16:35

President Vladimir Putin met with US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld August 13, 2001, 14:15 The Kremlin, Moscow

August 10, 2001, Friday

President Vladimir Putin met with Irina Lyachina, the widow of the commander of the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk August 10, 2001, 16:45 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met with Vladimir Yelagin, the minister with responsibility for coordinating the work of federal government agencies for social and economic development of the Chechen Republic August 10, 2001, 14:05 The Kremlin, Moscow

August 9, 2001, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on export control of equipment, materials and technologies that could be used in manufacturing missiles August 9, 2001, 00:00

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree confirming a list of toxic substances, pathogens and genetically modified microorganisms, equipment and technologies liable to export control August 9, 2001, 00:00

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

"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."