Vladimir Putin held a news conference at the World Trade Centre on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment. Over 1,300 Russian and foreign journalists have been accredited to cover the news conference.

The Presidential Press and Information Office’s Department of Accreditations and Briefings is now taking accreditation requests to cover the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, scheduled to take place on December 24, 2013 in Moscow.

The news conference will be held on December 19, 2013.

Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order On Measures to Raise Efficiency in the Work of State Mass Media Outlets.

The deadline for accreditation requests from Russian and foreign journalists wanting to cover the G20 Summit in St Petersburg on September 5–6, 2013, has been extended until August 1, 2013.

Vladimir Putin signed executive order On celebrating the 110^th anniversary of the founding of federal state unitary enterprise Information and Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS).

Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to participants and guests of the 15th World Russian Press Congress.

Ahead of the G8 summit in Great Britain and the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Vladimir Putin answered questions from Russian News & Information Agency.

Vladimir Putin visited the new Russia Today broadcasting centre and met with the channel's leadership and correspondents.

Vladimir Putin will visit Russia Today television channel’s new studio centre on June 11, 2013.

The Presidential Press and Information Office’s Department of Accreditation and Briefings is now taking accreditation requests to cover the 31^th Russia-EU summit, scheduled to be held in Yekaterinburg on June 3–4, 2013.

The lists of Russian and foreign journalists accredited to cover the ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall on May 8 and the military parade on Red Square on May 9, 2013 have been published.

The Presidential Press and Information Office’s Department of Accreditations and Briefings is now taking accreditation requests to cover the events celebrating the 68^th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.

Vladimir Putin congratulated Russia’s media community on their professional holiday.

Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to participants and guests at the 14^th World Russian Press Congress.

In particular, the President commented on the open letter written by musician Andrei Makarevich on the level of corruption in Russia, and the statement by former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Yury Baluyevsky on Russia’s involvement in Georgian-South Ossetian conflict.

The Presidential Press and Information Office’s Accreditation and Briefings Department is now taking accreditation requests to cover President of the Russian Federation’s participation in the G8 summit scheduled to take place in mid-May 2012 in the USA.

Issues discussed included the network's legal status, its funding, management bodies and public control over its activities.

Dmitry Medvedev marked Russian Students Day by discussing current national political, social and economic development issues with students from the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University.