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President Vladimir Putin received Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo

April 21, 2004

President Vladimir Putin said Government restructuring would continue

April 21, 2004

President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi watched demonstration flights by Russian pilots

April 21, 2004

Tags: investment

Our aim is not simply to attract investment but to create an effective, competitive and modern economy, President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference following the ceremony to open an Italian factory in Lipetsk. Mr Putin noted that Russia needs not just money but also skilled production specialists with new ideas

April 21, 2004

Tags: investment

President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi held a joint press conference

April 21, 2004

President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi took part in the dedication ceremony of a new washing machine factory

April 21, 2004

President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited the Stinol refrigerator factory in Lipetsk

April 21, 2004

President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrived in Lipetsk

April 21, 2004

Moscow and Rome have begun to implement Silvio Berlusconi’s idea to create Italian industrial districts in Russia, President Vladimir Putin announced at talks with the Italian Prime Minister

April 20, 2004

President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had talks at the Kremlin

April 20, 2004

President Vladimir Putin met with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and expressed satisfaction with the development of economic and humanitarian cooperation between the two countries

April 20, 2004

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing a Russian agency responsible for joint anti-terrorist activities in the CIS member states

April 20, 2004

President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair

April 19, 2004

President Vladimir Putin informed the government at a meeting at the Kremlin that he had introduced to the State Duma amendments to the law ”On the Government of the Russian Federation“. The amendments concern the completion of reforms in government organisation

April 19, 2004

President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Cabinet members

April 19, 2004

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

April 17, 2004

President Vladimir Putin and wife, Lyudmila, arrived in Hanover to celebrate Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's 60th birthday

April 16, 2004

President Vladimir Putin met with the Ukrainian President's Chief of Staff Victor Medvedchuk

April 16, 2004

The war on terrorism was one of the topics at a meeting with Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, whom Russian President Vladimir Putin received at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo

April 15, 2004

President Vladimir Putin met with Uzbek President Islam Karimov

April 15, 2004