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January 12, 2002, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon January 12, 2002, 20:00

President Vladimir Putin met with the chief executive of the electricity company Unified Energy Systems (UES), Anatoly Chubais January 12, 2002, 13:20 Valdai, Novgorod Region

January 11, 2002, Friday

President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in the Krasnodar Region by telephone with Deputy Emergencies Minister Yury Vorobyov and Governor Alexander Tkachev January 11, 2002, 19:10

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Transneft President Semyon Vainshtok January 11, 2002, 18:00 Valdai, Novgorod Region

President Vladimir Putin signed the Decree “Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1373 of September 28, 2001” to step up the struggle against the financing of terrorism and terrorist organisations January 11, 2002, 00:00

January 10, 2002, Thursday

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair January 10, 2002, 16:45

The Russian President has signed the Federal Law on environmental protection January 10, 2002, 00:00

January 8, 2002, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin congratulated members of an international expedition to the South Pole by telephone January 8, 2002, 15:50

President Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to the relatives and friends of Alexander Prokhorov, an outstanding Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner, who recently died January 8, 2002, 00:00

January 7, 2002, Monday

President Vladimir Putin visited a school in Maloyaroslavets January 7, 2002, 15:20

January 6, 2002, Sunday

While in Pereslavl Zalessky, President Vladimir Putin saw Peter the Great's first boat at a local nautical museum and visited the Spaso-Preobrazhensky cathedral January 6, 2002, 16:40

January 4, 2002, Friday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez January 4, 2002, 19:40

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Gennady Fadeyev Federal Railways Minister January 4, 2002, 18:30 Novo-Ogaryvo

January 3, 2002, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Cuban leader Fidel Castro to mark the 43rd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution January 3, 2002, 00:00

December 31, 2001, Monday

New Year Message to the Citizens of Russia December 31, 2001, 23:55 The Kremlin, Moscow

The Russian President signed the 2002 budget, the Labour Code and the Code of Administrative Violations December 31, 2001, 00:00

December 29, 2001, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with the French President Jacques Chirac December 29, 2001, 16:50

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with members of the Cabinet at the House of Government December 29, 2001, 12:40 Moscow

By presidential decree, President Vladimir Putin appointed Igor Shchegolev Chief of the Presidential Protocol, dismissing him from his previous post December 29, 2001, 00:00

December 28, 2001, Friday

President Vladimir Putin watched “Vladimir Vysotsky (A Poetic Performance)” at the Moscow Taganka Theatre December 28, 2001, 20:15 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."

Transcripts, May 9, 2025