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The President is receiving detailed information on the airplane crash of a Tupolev-154 that belongs to Pulkovo airlines which was flying from Anapa to St Petersburg August 22, 2006, 00:00

August 21, 2006, Monday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan August 21, 2006, 19:10

President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev August 21, 2006, 16:20 Bocharov Ruchei, Sochi

August 19, 2006, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin met with the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko August 19, 2006, 20:00 Bocharov Ruchei, Sochi

President Vladimir Putin met with head of RAO Unified Energy Systems Anatoly Chubais August 19, 2006, 15:10 Bocharov Ruchei, Sochi

August 18, 2006, Friday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora August 18, 2006, 20:30

President Vladimir Putin met with Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF Corporation Eggert Voscherau August 18, 2006, 18:30 Bocharov Ruchei, Sochi

August 17, 2006, Thursday

The informal EurAsEC Sochi summit between the heads of member states has come to an end August 17, 2006, 14:50 Sochi

On the sidelines of the EurAsEC summit President Vladimir Putin met with Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov August 17, 2006, 14:00

August 16, 2006, Wednesday

The leaders of the Eurasian Economic Community's member states visited the Tajikistan Agricultural Fair August 16, 2006, 21:00 Sochi

Instructions have been issued to the Eurasian Economic Community Secretariat, and to Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, to draw up the documents required to establish a customs union August 16, 2006, 20:04

The leaders of the Eurasian Economic Community member states have held a summit August 16, 2006, 15:00 Sochi

August 15, 2006, Tuesday

The heads of state members of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) had a working dinner August 15, 2006, 21:00 Sochi

Vladimir Putin met with the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev August 15, 2006, 20:00 Bocharov Ruchei, Sochi

Vladimir Putin met with Armenian President Robert Kocharian August 15, 2006, 18:40 Bocharov Ruchei, Sochi

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov August 15, 2006, 16:50

Vladimir Putin sent congratulatory telegrams to Indian President Abdul Kalam and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the occasion of India's Independence Day August 15, 2006, 00:00

August 14, 2006, Monday

President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with the plenipotentiary presidential envoys in the Siberian and Far East Federal Districts, Anatoly Kvashnin and Kamil Iskhakov August 14, 2006, 17:00 Bocharov Ruchei, Sochi

August 13, 2006, Sunday

President Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to President of the State Council and Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Castro on his birthday August 13, 2006, 16:00

August 12, 2006, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert August 12, 2006, 18:00

"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."