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Vladimir Putin met with Speaker of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine Vladimir Litvin January 7, 2005, 17:55 Novo-Ogaryovo

January 6, 2005, Thursday

The President wished the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexei II and all Orthodox Christians a Merry Christmas January 6, 2005, 17:42

Vladimir Putin met in the Kremlin with Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexii II January 6, 2005, 15:00 Moscow

January 5, 2005, Wednesday

Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh January 5, 2005, 19:40

Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono January 5, 2005, 19:00

Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Chinawatra January 5, 2005, 18:40

Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with President of Sri Lanka Chandrika Bandaranaike Kamaratunga January 5, 2005, 18:00

January 3, 2005, Monday

Vladimir Putin issued a decree appointing presidential aide Igor Shuvalov Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on Russia's participation in the G8 January 3, 2005, 17:10

January 1, 2005, Saturday

Vladimir Putin thanked Vasily Kononov, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War who resides in Latvia, for New Year's greetings January 1, 2005, 13:30

December 31, 2004, Friday

Starting in the New Year, 2005, we revert to an old Russian tradition — a tradition of long New Year's holidays December 31, 2004, 23:24

Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi December 31, 2004, 19:50

Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan December 31, 2004, 19:45

Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko December 31, 2004, 19:40

Vladimir Putin delivered his New Year's address to the citizens of the country live on television December 31, 2004, 00:00

December 30, 2004, Thursday

The President wished the heads of state and government of foreign countries a happy New Year December 30, 2004, 19:00

The president signed a federal law establishing November 4 as a day of military glory in Russia, the Day of National Unity December 30, 2004, 17:05

Vladimir Putin met Minister of Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Reiman December 30, 2004, 15:20

Vladimir Putin met Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov December 30, 2004, 13:50

December 29, 2004, Wednesday

Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov December 29, 2004, 19:30

The president wished Muscovites and the capital's authorities success, adding that the state of the entire country to a large extent depended on Moscow December 29, 2004, 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."