Svetlana Orlova briefed Vladimir Putin on the regional authorities’ main immediate priorities.

The Acting Governor briefed the President on the socioeconomic situation in the region. In particular, the meeting discussed demographic trends and the current situation in the housing sector.

The Acting Governor briefed the President on the socioeconomic situation in the Magadan Region, particularly on the development of its special economic zone and the payment of salaries to public sector employees.

Vladimir Putin took part in the conference called Orthodox-Slavic Values: The Foundation of Ukraine’s Civilisational Choice.

Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order On abolishing the Federal Service for Financial Markets, amendments to particular presidential executive orders and recognition of particular presidential executive orders as being no longer in effect.

Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law On Amendments to the Russian Federation Law on Commodities Exchanges and Market Trading and to particular Russian Laws and Statutes.

The President signed the Federal Law On Amending Article 6 of the Federal Law on the Special Economic Zone in Kaliningrad Region and on Amending Specific Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.

The President signed Federal Law On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Connection with the Transfer of Powers in Regulation, Control and Supervision of Financial Markets to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

Igor Artemyev briefed Vladimir Putin on the joint work by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to bring Russia’s national standards on protection of competition in line with international requirements, and also spoke about the Service’s current activities.

Subjects of discussion at the meeting included preparations for the G20 summit in St Petersburg, and Vnesheconombank’s participation in a number of long-term infrastructure projects.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting on developing Russia’s banking system, looking in particular at how to make it easier and more affordable for small and medium-businesses to get loans.

The officials of the Presidential Executive Office, the government ministers responsible for finance and the economy, the Central Bank, and a number of major Russian banks will take part in the meeting, which will examine the problem of access to credit resources.

Vladimir Putin discussed Russia’s forthcoming chairmanship of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organisation that develops financial policies to combat money laundering, with Head of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring Yury Chikhanchin.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with newly appointed Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev.

Vladimir Putin and Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel met with members of Russian and German business communities. The meeting took place on a boat cruising from the SPIEF landing place to the State Hermitage Museum.

Vladimir Putin and Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel took part in the St Petersburg International Economic Forum’s plenary session.

Vladimir Putin met with members of the Russian Direct Investment Fund international expert council and heads of major infrastructure funds.

Vladimir Putin met with representatives of the Business 20 Summit, an international business forum with the participation of companies and business associations from G20 member states and partner countries, as well as leading international governmental and commercial organisations.

The G8 leaders will focus on problems in the global economy and the situation in Syria.

Vladimir Putin will open the forum’s plenary session and meet with participants of the G20 Business and Youth Summits, being held within the framework of the forum. In addition, the President of Russia plans to meet with the heads of major foreign investment funds and the heads of leading energy companies, as well as winners of the Global Energy prize.