Vladimir Putin held a briefing session, via videoconference, with permanent members of the Security Council.

The President signed the Federal Law On Ratifying the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia on the Mutual Recognition of Documents Confirming the Disability of Persons Dismissed from the Defence Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of South Ossetia and persons dismissed from the Defence Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Putin congratulated military personnel and veterans of the Special Operations Forces on their professional holiday.

The President paid tribute to fallen soldiers by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall.

Vladimir Putin made a video address to congratulate veterans, the military and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces and all Russian citizens on this holiday.

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino chaired a regular meeting of the Presidential Council for Coordination with Religious Organisations.

Vladimir Putin visited the National Defence Control Centre where he took part in an annual expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board. 

Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the family and friends of Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Marshal of Aviation of the Soviet Union and Merited Pilot of Russia.

Vladimir Putin congratulated the faculty, students, cadets, graduates and veterans of the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Military Academy on its 200^th anniversary.

Vladimir Putin congratulated the faculty, students, trainees, graduates and veterans of the Peter the Great Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces on its 200^th anniversary.

Aide to the President Vladimir Medinsky took part in a ceremony to unveil a monument to Infantry General Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, a participant in the Russo-Persian and Russo-Turkish wars, on Feodosia embankment (Republic of Crimea).

The President held a meeting on the Russian peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh, via videoconference.

The President signed Executive Order On Awarding State Decorations of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Putin had a meeting with the leaders of the Defence Ministry, federal agencies and defence industry companies on the supply of new command and control systems to the armed forces.

The President opened a new series of meetings with senior officials from the Defence Ministry, federal agencies and defence industry.

The President discussed urgent issues in shipbuilding with Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Georgy Poltavchenko. The meeting took place aboard the new diesel-electric icebreaker Viktor Chernomyrdin.

Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District Igor Shchegolev and Chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces – First Deputy Defence Minister General Valery Gerasimov attended an official ceremony unveiling a monument to generalissimo Alexander Suvorov in the village of Kistysh in the Vladimir Region.

Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the faculty, cadets and graduates of Professor Nikolai Zhukovsky and Yury Gagarin Air Force Academy on the occasion of its 100^th anniversary.