Konstantin Pulikovsky, the Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, and Sergei Shoigu, the Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, told President Vladimir Putin in a telephone conversation about the search and rescue operation for the Mi-8 helicopter missing in Kamchatka 2003-08-20 15:50:59 Sakhalin Governor Igor Farkhutdinov and regional executives were on board the aircraft.