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President Vladimir Putin met with servicemen of the 201st Motorised Rifle Division stationed in Tajikistan April 27, 2003, 11:30 Dushanbe

April 26, 2003, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin attended the Easter service at St Nicholas' Orthodox Cathedral April 26, 2003, 22:50 Dushanbe

President Vladimir Putin and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov held negotiations April 26, 2003, 19:00 Dushanbe

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the first Russian drifting research station, North Pole-32 April 26, 2003, 00:00

April 25, 2003, Friday

President Vladimir Putin met with Federation Council members April 25, 2003, 15:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

April 24, 2003, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin met with Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Sibneft president Yevgeny Shvidler April 24, 2003, 21:00 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin appointed Galina Karelova and Boris Alyoshin as Deputy Prime Ministers April 24, 2003, 17:50

President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Justice Minister Yury Chaika April 24, 2003, 17:40 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign Countries April 24, 2003, 16:30 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin met with Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev April 24, 2003, 14:45 Novo-Ogaryovo

April 23, 2003, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin met with the heads of leading musical groups and cultural celebrities of Russia April 23, 2003, 20:30 The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Dmitry Rogozin, chairman of the State Duma's international affairs committee and the presidential envoy to the EU for the Kaliningrad Region April 23, 2003, 15:00 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with presidential envoys to the federal districts April 23, 2003, 14:10 Novo-Ogaryovo

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to heads of the world's leading secret services meeting in Moscow April 23, 2003, 00:00

April 22, 2003, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin April 22, 2003, 20:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Eurasian Economic Community Secretary-General Grigory Rapota April 22, 2003, 15:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

April 21, 2003, Monday

Following Talks with President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia Vladimir Putin declared that Russia and Indonesia advocate the formation of an equitable and democratic system of international relations. A system based on the generally recognized principles and rules of international law and on political and diplomatic methods of solving international problems. He also stated that their countries stand for improvements in the UN system and increasing the efficiency of that organisation's various mechanisms April 21, 2003, 18:20

Vladimir Putin held talks with Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri April 21, 2003, 16:25 The Kremlin, Moscow

April 18, 2003, Friday

President Vladimir Putin met with Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alferov, director of the Ioffe Physics and Engineering Institute April 18, 2003, 14:55 Novo-Ogaryovo

April 17, 2003, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi April 17, 2003, 23:00

"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."