Vladimir Putin held a meeting on developing nuclear submarine forces. Taking part in the meeting were Navy Commander Viktor Chirkov and heads of a number of defence enterprises.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the strategic missile forces’ current state and development prospects. This is the first in a series of meetings on carrying out state defence procurement orders and equipping the Russian Armed Forces with modern arms and equipment under the 2011–2020 state arms programme.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Security Council on national security in environmental protection and natural resources use.

Officers appointed to senior command positions were presented and had their senior military (special) titles conferred at a ceremony held in the Grand Kremlin Palace’s St George Hall.

Vladimir Putin will chair a meeting of the Security Council devoted to national security with regards to environmental protection and natural resources.

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

Vladimir Putin met with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council.

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.

Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko inspected the final stage of the Zapad-2013 Russian-Belarusian strategic military exercises.

Vladimir Putin took part in a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO).

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov took part in the opening of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) conference – Global Strategic Review, and addressed its plenary session.

Vladimir Putin held a Security Council meeting on main government policy areas in the North Caucasus Federal District.

Director of the FSB Border Guard Service reported to the President on the agency’s current activities.

Vladimir Putin met with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council.

Vladimir Putin held a Security Council meeting at the Kremlin to discuss plans for improving Russia’s military organisation over the period through to 2020.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Commission for Military Technical Cooperation with Foreign Countries.

Vladimir Putin was briefed by Samara Region Governor Nikolai Merkushkin, Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova on the situation with the explosions at the munitions depot and test ground near Chapayevsk in Samara Region.