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President Vladimir Putin met with Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, Georgy Poltavchenko, the presidential envoy to the Central Federal District, Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov and Vladimir Pronin, the Moscow chief of police

October 24, 2002, The Kremlin, Moscow

Mr Putin called to focus efforts on securing the area around the site of the terrorist attack, on helping the hostages and giving support to their relatives.

“Terrorists are surely provoking us to introduce into our country the patterns they introduced in Chechnya in their time. We shall not succumb to those provocations,” Mr Putin said.

October 24, 2002, The Kremlin, Moscow