The first working group meeting on preparing for a State Council Presidium session on measures to implement the strategic tasks set by the President’s Executive Order of May 7, 2018 on the accelerated socio-economic development of the Far East took place under the chairmanship of Presidential Aide and State Council Secretary Igor Levitin.

Vladimir Putin met with pilot cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. The President in person congratulated her on the remarkable date – the 55^th anniversary of her single-person flight around the Earth aboard the Vostok-6 spaceship, which began on June 16, 1963, and lasted almost three days.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.

Vladimir Putin sent greetings to residents of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra on the 900^th anniversary of the first mention of Yugra in Russian chronicles.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Novgorod Region Governor Andrei Nikitin to discuss the socioeconomic situation in the region.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov made a working trip to the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra.

Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visited the My Russia cultural and ethnographic centre in Krasnaya Polyana.

Vladimir Putin took part in the opening ceremony of the Crimean Bridge motorway section and drove the lead vehicle of the construction equipment convoy.

The President approved a list of instructions following the State Council meeting held on April 5, 2018.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Krasnodar Territory Governor Veniamin Kondratyev.