Presidential Aide and State Council Secretary Igor Levitin chaired the second meeting of the State Council Presidium working group on measures to enhance Russian regions’ investment appeal.

Vladimir Putin met with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Vladimir Putin met with representatives of the region’s business community engaged in cross-border Russia-Kazakhstan cooperation.

Vladimir Putin conducted a meeting on ways to improve interbudgetary relations. The discussion focused on regional budget support mechanisms, the development of the regions’ economic potential and the strengthening of their financial base.

Vladimir Putin met in the Kremlin with the newly elected governors of the Russian regions.

Vladimir Putin met with the chairperson of the Central Election Commission and the commission’s members to discuss the results of the recent elections.

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

Vladimir Putin launched operations at the Vostochno-Messoyakha oilfield, Russia’s northernmost onshore deposit. The launch ceremony for the largest Arctic project took place via a video linkup.

The President approved the list of instructions issued following a meeting of the State Council Presidium of August 26, 2016, on measures to improve the investment appeal of Russia’s spa and resort industry.

While on a visit to the Southern Federal District, Vladimir Putin inspected the state of progress in construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait.

Vladimir Putin chaired a State Council Presidium meeting on developing transport infrastructure in the Southern Federal District in Kerch.

At Leo Tolstoy Museum and Estate at Yasnaya Polyana, Vladimir Putin met with Tula Region community members who participated in developing the region’s socioeconomic development programme.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the use of the defence industry’s potential in the production of high-tech civilian goods that find demand on domestic and export markets. The meeting took place at the premises of the Research and Production Enterprise SPLAV.

The first meeting of the working group to organise a State Council meeting on measures to improve the Russian regions’ investment appeal was held under the chairmanship of Presidential Aide and State Council Secretary Igor Levitin.

Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum. This year, representatives of 35 countries applied to attend the forum. In total, delegations from 56 countries are taking part.

Vladimir Putin visited the Primorye Oceanarium of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister – Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev, Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov and Governor of Primorye Territory Vladimir Miklushevsky to discuss the situation in certain regions of the Far East affected by floods.

Yesterday evening Vladimir Putin visited one of the buildings of the Far Eastern Federal University, where he toured the exhibition of priority development areas and Vladivostok Free Port.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting on developing shipbuilding as part of his visit to the Zvezda shipyard. The meeting’s agenda focused on the development of the shipbuilding industry in the Russian Far East, as well as the programme to provide social infrastructure for the company’s employees.