Vladimir Putin congratulated La Stampa’s editorial staff and readers on the 150^th anniversary of the newspaper’s first issue.

A session of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation’s (CSTO) Collective Security Council and a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council (SEEC) will take place on December 26, 2016 in St Petersburg.

News conference by President of Russia Vladimir Putin will take place at 12:00 pm (Moscow time) on December 23, 2016.

The news conference will take place on December 23, 2016 at 12 pm Moscow time.

Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to the 18^th World Congress of Russian Press in Paris, which began work at the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Centre that opened today in the French capital.

The interview was recorded on October 11, 2016 in Kovrov, Vladimir Region.

Vladimir Putin responded to media questions at the end of his working visit to Uzbekistan to attend the SCO Heads of State Council, timed to coincide with the 15^th anniversary of the SCO.

The President has signed the Federal Law On Amending the Law on Information, Information Technology and Protection of Information and the Code of Administrative Offences.

In the run-up to his visit to the People’s Republic of China, Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Chinese news agency Xinhua. The interview was recorded on June 17 on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Vladimir Putin had a meeting with heads of leading international news agencies.

Vladimir Putin visited the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency to congratulate journalists on the agency’s 75th anniversary and speak at the New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream international media forum.

The President visited the branch of the National State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) in Sochi, met with the management and leading journalists of one of Russia’s leading media holdings.

Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions following the Truth and Justice media forum of regional and local media outlets on April 7, 2016.

The Presidential Press and Information Office’s Department of Accreditations and Briefings is now accepting accreditation requests to cover the events celebrating the 71^st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.

The Presidential Press and Information Office’s Department of Accreditation and Briefings is now taking accreditation requests to cover the Russia–ASEAN Summit, scheduled for May 19–20, 2016 in Sochi.

Vladimir Putin took part in the third Truth and Justice regional and local media forum.

The 14^th annual Direct Line with Vladimir Putin will start at midday Moscow time on April 14 and will be broadcast by television channels Channel One, Rossiya 1, Rossiya 24, and radio stations Mayak, Vesti FM, and Radio Rossii.

The President signed Federal Law On Amending the Law of the Russian Federation On the Media and the Russian Federation Administrative Offences Code.

Vladimir Putting congratulated the editorial staff of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper on the 25^th anniversary since its first publication.