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President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev March 15, 2004, 15:00

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Chinese President Hu Jintao March 15, 2004, 14:45

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with French President Jacques Chirac March 15, 2004, 14:15

Vladimir Putin expressed his thanks to everyone who supported him in the presidential election. Speaking at a press conference at his campaign headquarters, Mr Putin called the election result ”entirely satisfactory“ March 15, 2004, 11:29

President Vladimir Putin gave a press conference at his campaign headquarters at 5 Red Square March 15, 2004, 02:00 Moscow

March 14, 2004, Sunday

President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, voted in the presidential election March 14, 2004, 10:30 Moscow

March 11, 2004, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin phoned Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to express his sympathy over the terrorist attacks in Madrid that took many lives March 11, 2004, 20:15

The agrarian sector is one of the most important in the Russian economy, said President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with virgin lands workers and exemplary workers of the agrarian and industrial complex March 11, 2004, 17:51

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Belarus' initiative March 11, 2004, 15:00

President Vladimir Putin expressed his sympathy to Spanish King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar over terrorist attacks in Madrid March 11, 2004, 14:30

President Vladimir Putin met with virgin-land pioneers and leading workers of the agricultural sector March 11, 2004, 14:10 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin gave a TV address to the Russian people March 11, 2004, 12:00 Moscow

March 10, 2004, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami March 10, 2004, 20:30

March 9, 2004, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Igor Ivanov as Secretary of the Security Council of Russia March 9, 2004, 22:20

President Vladimir Putin made Vladimir Yakovlev his Envoy to the Southern Federal District March 9, 2004, 20:00

The new structure of the Government should logically connect previously isolated functions, make new ministries more effective and influential, and give them new dynamics and independence, President Vladimir Putin announced at a meeting at the Kremlin March 9, 2004, 18:51

President Vladimir Putin told a meeting at the Kremlin that he signed the Decree “On the System and Structure of Federal Executive Bodies.” March 9, 2004, 15:45 Moscow

March 8, 2004, Monday

The eighth of March is a day for celebrating women, a day for celebrating goodness, wisdom, beauty and spiritual strength, President Vladimir Putin said at a ceremony presenting high state awards to Russian women March 8, 2004, 18:19

March 5, 2004, Friday

President Vladimir Putin congratulated Mikhail Fradkov on the approval of his appointment to the post of Prime Minister and said that he had signed a decree confirming this decision March 5, 2004, 19:59

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Mikhail Fradkov Prime Minister March 5, 2004, 17:20

"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."