Vladimir Putin met with Chairman of the Executive Board of RUSNANO Management Company Anatoly Chubais. The discussion focused on the state corporation’s performance results and upcoming plans.

Mr Kovalchuk informed the President about the current activities of the research centre.

Vladimir Putin received UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay in the Kremlin to discuss prospects for cooperation between Russia and UNESCO.

Vladimir Putin presented Presidential prizes in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists in the Kremlin. The ceremony was traditionally timed to Russian Science Day marked on February 8.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On the 2018 Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists.

A meeting of Moscow State University Board of Trustees was held under Vladimir Putin’s chairmanship in the historic building of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on Mokhovaya Street.

The participants discussed interim results of implementing the Moscow State University development programme, further steps to enhance its competitiveness, as well as its participation in advanced research.

Vladimir Putin met with President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeyev to discuss the development of science and the academic community, as well as promising areas of the Academy’s activities.

Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions following the Presidential Council for Science and Education meeting held on November 27, 2018.

Vladimir Putin took part in the Russian Geographical Society awards ceremony.

Vladimir Putin congratulated the team and veterans on the 100^th anniversary of the Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI).

Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education in the Kremlin.

On November 27, Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of the Council for Science and Education in the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the education and play area at the Schoolchildren’s Palace in Petropavlovsk where the Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum took place.

Vladimir Putin signed Federal Law On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation on Establishing an International Competence Centre for Mining-Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO in St Petersburg, Russia.

The President signed Executive Order On Establishing the Foundation for the Preservation and Study of the Native Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Academy of Education Magomedsalam Magomedov attended the Academy’s general meeting.

The President approved a list of instructions following the Eastern Economic Forum that took place on September 11–13, 2018.

The President signed the Federal Law On Introducing Amendments to the Federal Law On the Russian Academy of Sciences, Reorganising State Academies of Sciences and Introducing Amendments to Individual Legal Acts of the Russian Federation.