The President answered questions on a variety of current issues, including international politics, security, the economy, the Iranian nuclear programme, and the situation in Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Dmitry Medvedev took part in the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.

Mr Medvedev expressed his condolences to the families of the police officers killed in the terrorist attack in Kizlyar, and instructed Mr Magomedov to present state decorations to the victims’ families.

Dmitry Medvedev held a Security Council meeting on preventing national security threats arising from global climate change.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with the permanent Security Council members.

The final communique of the summit specified that the G20 format is a major forum for international economic cooperation.

In his remarks at the conference Mr Medvedev said that the global economic crisis has overturned ideas trendy at the end of the twentieth century on the declining role of states in the globalisation era.