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August 27, 2003, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin took part in the mourning ceremony for officials of the Sakhalin Oblast administration who died in a helicopter crash August 27, 2003, 14:47

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with the heads of the municipal bodies of the Sakhalin Region August 27, 2003, 06:20 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

President Vladimir Putin took part in a farewell ceremony for the victims of a Mi-8 helicopter crash August 27, 2003, 03:50 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin on the occasion of a national holiday — Independence Day August 27, 2003, 00:00

August 26, 2003, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany August 26, 2003, 20:30

August 24, 2003, Sunday

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma congratulating him on Ukraine's Independence Day, a national holiday August 24, 2003, 00:00

August 23, 2003, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin gave his condolences to the friends and family of the people who died in the Mi-8 helicopter accident on Kamchatka August 23, 2003, 17:45

President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in which he expressed his condolences on the tragedy at the Alcantara Launch Centre causing human losses August 23, 2003, 15:30

President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the families and friends of people who were killed in a Mi-8 crash in Kamchatka August 23, 2003, 09:40

August 22, 2003, Friday

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the participants in the public and political forum Elections 2003 August 22, 2003, 00:00

August 21, 2003, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin phoned First Vice Governor of the Sakhalin Region Ivan Malakhov, who briefed the head of state on the situation in the region August 21, 2003, 12:30

August 20, 2003, Wednesday

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 August 20, 2003, 15:50

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf August 20, 2003, 13:45

President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Israeli President Moshe Katsav and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon over the terrorist attack in Jerusalem August 20, 2003, 00:00

President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan over the terrorist attack at the United Nations Mission in Baghdad August 20, 2003, 00:00

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the organisers of China Week in St Petersburg August 20, 2003, 00:00

August 19, 2003, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin believes it is possible to solve the issue of reducing the difference between pensions for war veterans and home front workers August 19, 2003, 20:04

President Putin attended an official function marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk August 19, 2003, 17:20 Kursk

President Putin met with WWII veterans who fought in the Battle of the Kursk Bulge August 19, 2003, 16:30 Kursk

President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to those killed in the Great Patriotic War and laid flowers at the graves of sailors who died aboard the Kursk nuclear-powered submarine August 19, 2003, 14:10 Kursk

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