context: The Day Watch is a novel by the Russian science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko in collaboration with Vladimir Vasiliev, the second of a series of works telling about the fictional world of the Others. The novel was written from June to October 1999 and was first published by AST in 2000. It consists of three parts - “Unauthorized Entry Allowed” by Sergey Lukyanenko, “Alien to Others” by Vladimir Vasiliev and the joint novel “Another Power”. Together with the novels The Night Watch, The Twilight Watch, The Last Watch, The New Watch, The Sixth Watch, as well as several stories by Lukyanenko and a number of works by other authors, he is included in the Dozors series.
question: In what year was the novel The Day Watch first published?
answers.text: 2000