Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting on senior citizen’s social and economic situation.

Improving pensioners’ living standards and protecting senior citizens’ rights have to become action priorities for the state authorities, Dmitry Medvedev stressed at a meeting with Healthcare and Social Development Minister Tatyana Golikova.

On September 15, 2010 Dmitry Medvedev had a working meeting with Murmansk Region Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko to discuss the pricing policy for staple foods in the region.

Mr Vakhrukov briefed the President on preparations for the Global Policy Forum The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency, and the celebrations of 1,000 years since Yaroslavl’s founding.

The President spoke by telephone with the heads of the affected regions and Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu. Mr Shoigu briefed the President on the firefighting and relief efforts.

Dmitry Medvedev visited a dairy plant, an agricultural producer Agrofirma Promyshlennaya and the Gvozdika garden settlement, and had a working meeting with Governor of Orenburg Region Yury Berg.

Dmitry Medvedev was briefed on a tragic fire that broke out at a nursing home for elderly in Vyshny Volochok, Tver Region.

Dmitry Medvedev approved a list of instructions following a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of the Information Society in Russia on July 8, 2010.

Mr Miller briefed the President on a progress in connecting Kamchatka Territory to the gas supply network and a number of social programmes that Gazprom is carrying out.

Dmitry Medvedev and Ramzan Kadyrov discussed plans for the republic's social development and the situation in agriculture, focusing in particular on mine clearance in the region.

Daghestan’s President briefed Dmitry Medvedev on the situation in the republic’s mountainous districts, where several settlements have suffered following serious fires in the area.

Dmitry Medvedev signed Federal Law On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation and on a Lump-Sum Payment out of the Family (Maternity Capital) Grant Funds.

Dmitry Medvedev signed Federal Law On Amendments to the Housing Code and Cerain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.

Dmitry Medvedev signed Federal Law to regulate safe operation of mining activities when mining coal and oil shale.

At the meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of the Information Society in Russia dedicated to assessing interim results and prospects of employing information and communication technologies, Dmitry Medvedev noted that their development and implementation have special relevance in a country like Russia, given its enormous distances.

Dmitry Medvedev signed a law ratifying the International Labour Organisation’s Collective Bargaining Convention (Convention 154).

Dmitry Medvedev was briefed on the socioeconomic situation in the region.

Dmitry Medvedev outlined the main objectives of budget policy.