The Week in Brief: Jan 1 - Jan 7, 2001
Mon, Jan 1
Russia stopped its gas supplies to Georgia because of escalating tensions between the two countries over the war in Chechnya.
Tue, Jan 2
President Putin was elected Person of the Year 2000 in Russia receiving 38% of votes. At the same time the Chechnya campaign was voted as Putin's least successful venture.
Wed, Jan 3
Policemen from Nijnyi Novgorod discovered a 25-meter tunnel loaded with explosives leading to their base in Gudermes city.
Thu, Jan 4
Russia won't make its first-quarter payments this year on the billions of dollars of debt owed to nations known collectively as the Paris Club, a government spokesman said.
Russia has resumed gas supplies to Georgia following an appeal by the Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and criticism from the U.S. State Department.
Pro-Moscow Chechen leader, Akhmad Kadyrov, survived yet another assassination attempt.
Fri, Jan 5
Over 270 Russian soldiers committed suicide in year 2000, several dozens of others tried to end their
lives - Military News Agency
Sat, Jan 6
Twenty-two judges arrived to Chechnya to set up ten regional courts and the Chechen republican court.
Sun, Jan 7
President Putin celebrated Russian orthodox Christmas in the company of German Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder.
Imam of a mosque in the Urus-Martan area near Grozny, Kasmagomed Umalatov, was shot dead outside his home.
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