Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov attended a seminar with representatives of the top executive bodies of the Siberian Federal District’s regions on the implementation of the Strategy for the State Ethnic Policy.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive office Magomedsalam Magomedov took part in the first meeting of the Board of the Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs dedicated to reviewing the Agency’s work in 2015 and setting targets for 2016.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov met with Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation Marat Tazhin.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov visited the Lomonosov Moscow State University State-Building and Management Training Educational and Research Centre and participated in a meeting with graduates from the first cycle of postgraduate courses in the Current Issues of Ethnic Policy programme.

Vladimir Putin met with members of the European Jewish Congress Executive Committee.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov held a meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations presidium.

Vladimir Putin met with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar and President of the Federation of Jewish Communities Alexander Boroda to congratulate all Jews of Russia on Hanukkah.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov chaired a meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations presidium.

While on a working trip to Crimea, Vladimir Putin had an informal meeting with representatives of Crimean ethnic groups’ public associations.

Vladimir Putin signed Federal Law On Amendments to Article 7 of the Federal Law On Guaranteeing the Rights of Indigenous Minorities of the Russian Federation.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District Vladimir Bulanin chaired a regional seminar meeting on implementing the Russian Federation’s state ethnic policy in the Northwestern Federal District.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov chaired a meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations Presidium.

Vladimir Putin held a joint meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations and the Council for the Russian Language.

The meeting will discuss the role the Russian language and the languages of Russia’s peoples play in strengthening Russia’s statehood and ways to improve measures to preserve and develop Russia’s various languages.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov and Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy to the Siberian Federal District Nikolai Rogozhkin chaired a seminar and conference with regional governors’ deputies on implementing state ethnic policy.

Vladimir Putin instructed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to examine and draft proposals on the establishment of the Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov held a meeting on improving the system of ethnology education and training for people working in the area of state ethnic policy.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov chaired a meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations Presidium.