Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.

The President took part in the annual expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board.

Vladimir Putin congratulated current officers and veterans of Russia’s security agencies on their professional holiday, Security Agency Worker’s Day.

Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin and Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov.

Vladimir Putin held a Security Council meeting to discuss the draft Economic Security Strategy.

Vladimir Putin held a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council.

Vladimir Putin chaired the last in a series of meetings on Armed Forces development.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting to examine defence industry enterprises’ readiness for mobilisation tasks, bolstering production capacity, and improving the national material reserves system.

Vladimir Putin continued a series of meetings with Defence Ministry heads on the main directions for developing the Armed Forces and the immediate and long-term military development priorities.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the leaders of the Defence Ministry, federal agencies and defence industry companies. The discussion focused on the implementation of the State Armaments Programme and the state defence order in 2016, and the Russian antiterrorist operation in Syria.

Vladimir Putin had a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.

Vladimir Putin met with permanent members of the Security Council to discuss the situation in Syria, particularly in connection with the recent decision to organise another temporary humanitarian ceasefire. The meeting participants also exchanged views on issues on the current socioeconomic domestic agenda.

Vladimir Putin held a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council.

Vladimir Putin held a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council.

The President signed the Executive Order On Changes to the Composition of the Russian Federation Security Council Approved by Presidential Executive Order No 715 of May 25, 2012.

Vladimir Putin visited the Foreign Intelligence Service headquarters, where he met with the staff and officially introduced the new Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin.

The President spoke at the first meeting of the State Duma of the seventh convocation.

Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma Draft Law On Suspending the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the United States of America on the Disposition of Plutonium Designated Plutonium no Longer Required for Defence Purposes, its Use and Cooperation in This Field, and the protocols to the Agreement.

The President chaired a meeting of the Security Council. The discussion focused on ways to improve the state regional policy.