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President Vladimir Putin met with King Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin of Malaysia August 5, 2003, 07:10 Kuala Lumpur

President Vladimir Putin forwarded a message to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to confirm his intention to address the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly August 5, 2003, 00:00

President Vladimir Putin congratulated the people of Oryol and Belgorod on the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk and the liberation of those cities from the Nazis August 5, 2003, 00:00

August 3, 2003, Sunday

President Vladimir Putin met with North Ossetian President Alexander Dzasokhov, Deputy Prime Minister Galina Karelova and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov August 3, 2003, 23:55 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev and Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov August 3, 2003, 22:40 Novo-Ogaryovo

“The negligent attitude that we have seen in a number of cases, and that helps make it possible to commit crimes and terrorist acts, has gone beyond all limits,” President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev and Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov August 3, 2003, 11:01

August 2, 2003, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin met with Director of the Federal Security Service Nikolai Patrushev and Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov August 2, 2003, 13:40 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma August 2, 2003, 13:00

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko August 2, 2003, 09:15

President Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to the families and friends of those killed in a terrorist attack in Mozdok August 2, 2003, 00:00

August 1, 2003, Friday

President Vladimir Putin was informed immediately about the explosion in Mozdok. The President gave instructions for an Emergency Situations Ministry plane with rescuers and all the necessary equipment to fly to Mozdok. Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov is also set to fly soon to Mozdok August 1, 2003, 22:16

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov August 1, 2003, 21:00

President Vladimir Putin was informed about the explosion in Mozdok August 1, 2003, 20:00

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair August 1, 2003, 15:50

President Vladimir Putin met with Mikhail Fradkov, Russia's Envoy to the European Commission August 1, 2003, 15:30 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich August 1, 2003, 14:00 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin awarded Claude Blanchemaison, French Ambassador to the Russian Federation, the Order of Friendship by a presidential decree August 1, 2003, 00:00

July 31, 2003, Thursday

While visiting the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre in Sarov (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast), President Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s adherence to obligations not to conduct nuclear testing, under the conditions of observing a moratorium July 31, 2003, 21:06

President Vladimir Putin visited the city of Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, where he took part in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the canonisation of St. Serafim Sarovsky July 31, 2003, 20:11

President Vladimir Putin met with the personnel of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center July 31, 2003, 15:45 Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region

"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."