Dmitry Medvedev issued instructions to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev to closely supervise the investigation into the offence against Oleg Kashin.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting to discuss a draft law on the liberalisation of criminal law before submitting it to the State Duma.

Dmitry Medvedev submitted a draft law on the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to the State Duma.

Dmitry Medvedev signed Executive Order On the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, establishing the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on the basis of the Investigative Committee of Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office.

Dmitry Medvedev spoke at the plenary session of the Global Policy Forum The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency.

Dmitry Medvedev signed Federal Law On Amendments to the Federal Law On the Federal Security Service and to the Russian Federation Code of Administrative Offences.

Dmitry Medvedev signed Federal Law On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on Combating Legalisation (Laundering) of the Proceeds of Crime, and Financing Terrorism. 

Dmitry Medvedev signed Federal Law On Amendments to the Federal Law On Lotteries. 

Dmitry Medvedev announced this during a working meeting with Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev.

Addressing the international forum Drug Production in Afghanistan: A Challenge to the International Community, which opened today in Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev said that he has approved the Russia’s National Drug Control Strategy to 2020.

The President was briefed on the ongoing investigations of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro and the explosions at the Raspadskaya Mine in the Kemerovo Region.

The meeting summed up the Interior Ministry 2009 performance.