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President Vladimir Putin took part in the international conference “Peace, Security, International Law: A Glance into the Future” April 12, 2003, 11:00 St Petersburg

April 11, 2003, Friday

President Vladimir Putin held tripartite negotiations with French President Jacques Chirac and German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder April 11, 2003, 22:30 St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin held negotiations with French President Jacques Chirac April 11, 2003, 20:00 St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin attended a gala for the 150th anniversary of the Siemens' work in Russia April 11, 2003, 19:30 St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin and German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder attended the Russian-German St Petersburg Dialogue forum April 11, 2003, 18:10 St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin met with German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder April 11, 2003, 17:20 St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the social and economic development of the Northwestern Federal District April 11, 2003, 16:00 St Petersburg

April 10, 2003, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin held talks with Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov who arrived in Russia for a visit April 10, 2003, 13:40 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Magomedali Magomedov, Chairman of the State Council of Daghestan April 10, 2003, 13:30

President Vladimir Putin sent Magomedali Magomedov, Chairman of the State Council of Daghestan, a telegram of condolences over the tragedy in a Makhachkala boarding school April 10, 2003, 00:00

April 9, 2003, Wednesday

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair April 9, 2003, 20:00

President Vladimir Putin submitted the Convention on the Standards of Democratic Elections, Electoral Rights and Freedoms in the CIS states to the State Duma for ratification April 9, 2003, 00:00

April 8, 2003, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin met with presidium members of the central council of the Russian Agrarian Movement public organization April 8, 2003, 15:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met with Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda of Slovakia April 8, 2003, 13:50 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Vyacheslav Shtyrov, following a tragedy in a school in the village of Sydybyl April 8, 2003, 00:00

President Vladimir Putin wished UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan a happy 65th birthday April 8, 2003, 00:00

April 7, 2003, Monday

President Vladimir Putin chaired a brief meeting with Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Advisor of the US President April 7, 2003, 19:30 Moscow

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the Cabinet April 7, 2003, 12:25 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law ratifying the Russian-Kazakh agreement on the delimitation of the northern seabed of the Caspian and a protocol to the agreement April 7, 2003, 00:00

President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the relatives and friends of those who were killed during a fire in Yakutia April 7, 2003, 00:00

"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."