Nazarbayev permitted a relatively high degree of political activity until the emergence of a reform movement called Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, backed by several wealthy business people, in late 2001.
These costs aren't trivial: a 2001 study showed that the cost of switching a loan came to about a third of the loan's annual interest rate.
Gwyneth Paltrow's coming … she's going to see my bits!!! Michelle Olley's performance diary The late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen induced writer Michelle Olley to lie naked in a glass box in 2001 as the coup de theatre of a fashion show.
In the UK there are citizens' alliances in seven cities working together to improve both local and regional issues; as a result of their work, 1,500 accredited employers now pay the living wage, promoted by Citizens UK since 2001.
In 2001 the Netherlands became the first country to legalise same-sex marriages.
The shadow science minister has held the seat since 2001, but with a gradually decreasing vote each election, confounding the theory of beneficial incumbency.
Since 2001 the group has survived successive crackdowns announced by Pakistani authorities.
But in 2001 an area for meditation and relaxation was created, away from the hubbub of the hectic streets of London; it also provided a welcome outside space for the adjacent Brunei Gallery.
There were 58,440 diagnoses of HIV of people born outside the UK between 2001 and 2013.
"The first, which is widely considered the first genocide of the twentieth century, struck your own Armenian people," he said, quoting a declaration signed in 2001 by Pope John Paul II and Kerekin II, leader of the Armenian church.
By the time he quit the Commons in 2001, he was Father of the House, yet another addition to the honours, political, academic and artistic which he accumulated.
