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February 4, 2004, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac February 4, 2004, 22:00

Meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia regards the processes underway in Europe, above all European Union expansion, with respect and attention and is ready both for a positive and constructive dialogue and for compromise February 4, 2004, 20:05

President Vladimir Putin met with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini February 4, 2004, 14:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin discussed the macroeconomic situation in Russia with the Central Bank Chairman Sergei Ignatyev February 4, 2004, 13:40 The Kremlin, Moscow

February 3, 2004, Tuesday

President Vladimir Putin congratulated the organisers and participants of the international research conference “The 1654 Council of Pereyaslav: Historical Mission and Political Consequences” in Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, Ukraine February 3, 2004, 19:30

President Vladimir Putin and Labour and Social Development Minister Alexander Pochinok discussed industrial wage arrears February 3, 2004, 16:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

February 2, 2004, Monday

President Vladimir Putin met with Mikhail Zurabov, chairman of the board of the Pension Fund February 2, 2004, 18:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin discussed the social development of rural areas at a meeting with the government February 2, 2004, 17:44

President Vladimir Putin chaired a Cabinet meeting February 2, 2004, 12:40 The Kremlin, Moscow

February 1, 2004, Sunday

President Putin congratulated the Muslims of Russia on the festival of Kurban-Bairam February 1, 2004, 12:00

January 30, 2004, Friday

Addressing an expanded meeting of the college of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, President Vladimir Putin said that legality is a general state concept and not a political or agency-based category. The law is above the authority and administrative resource of any official and the main aim of supervision by prosecutors is to ensure that the law is enforced January 30, 2004, 21:11

President Vladimir Putin wished Uzbek President Islam Karimov a happy birthday January 30, 2004, 16:00

President Vladimir Putin attended an expanded meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General's Office January 30, 2004, 13:00 Moscow

January 29, 2004, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Fidel Castro, Chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of Cuba January 29, 2004, 21:00

January 28, 2004, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin met with Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov at the Novo-Ogaryovo presidential country residence outside Moscow to discuss the current situation in Chechnya January 28, 2004, 21:30

January 27, 2004, Tuesday

At a meeting of the presidium of the State council on problems of improving social facilities of pensioners, President Vladimir Putin announced the necessity of forming a fully-fledged market of social services January 27, 2004, 21:58

President Vladimir Putin chaired a State Council Presidium meeting on improving pensioner welfare January 27, 2004, 19:00 St. Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin attended events on the 60th anniversary of lifting the blockade of Leningrad January 27, 2004, 18:00

President Vladimir Putin met with pensioners at the Kirovsk town hall January 27, 2004, 15:00 Leningrad Region

January 26, 2004, Monday

President Vladimir Putin is certain that Russia’s policy towards the United States will remain stable and predictable January 26, 2004, 21:24

"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."