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.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin observed the main stage of the strategic headquarters exercise Caucasus-2020 at the Kapustin Yar training centre in Astrakhan Region.

On September 25, Vladimir Putin will make a working trip to the Southern Federal District to attend the main stage of the Kavkaz-2020 strategic command-and-staff exercises at the Kapustin Yar training ground.

The President signed Executive Order On Awarding the Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called with Swords to Gerbert Yefremov.

Vladimir Putin congratulated Professor Gerbert Yefremov, prominent missile and space-rocket designer, Honorary CEO, Honorary Chief Designer, Advisor for Science at the MIC NPO Mashinostroyenia, on Gunsmith Day.

On the eve of Gunsmith Day, Vladimir Putin held a meeting, via videoconference, of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation.