Vladimir Putin chaired a State Council meeting at the Kremlin on the support of families in the Russian Federation.

Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova held a meeting of the Parental Platform, a public advisory consultative body. Representatives of parental communities presented a summary of their collaborative efforts over the past year.

The Children’s Rights Commissioner met with Governor of the Samara Region Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, held a meeting with heads of child neglect prevention system agencies, and personally met with several families.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On the Presidential Council for the Implementation of State Demographic and Family Policy.

The Children’s Rights Commissioner opened a forum of the National Inspectorate for the Social Orphanhood Prevention System.

Presidential Aide, Secretary of the Council for Culture and Art Vladimir Medinsky chaired a meeting on Russian children’s literature.

With the assistance of the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights and mediation by the State of Qatar, two children who were living in Ukraine were reunited with their relatives in Russia. Another seven children living in Russia were reunited with their relatives in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law On Amending Articles 127 and 146 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation.

The President signed Federal Law On Amendments to Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation.

With the assistance of Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, 26 Russian children from a refugee camp in north-eastern Syria returned to Russia.

Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order On Amending the Presidential Executive Order of the Russian Federation No. 404 On the Establishment of a Fund to Support Children in Difficult Life Situations of March 26, 2008.

On November 14, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Amur Region as part of the National Inspection for Social Orphanhood Prevention System.

On November 13–14, Novosibirsk hosted the National Forum for Social Orphanhood Prevention “To Live and Be Raised in a Family” – the 23^rd National Congress of Commissioners for Children’s Rights in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation.

The President sent greetings to participants, organisers and guests of the social orphanhood prevention forum To Live and Be Raised in a Family and the 23rd Congress of National Commissioners for Children’s Rights held within the framework of the forum.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Head of the Republic of North Ossetia – Alania Sergei Menyailo to discuss the region’s socioeconomic development.

As part of the National Inspection for Social Orphanhood Prevention System, Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Republic of Mordovia. During her visit, she met with Head of the Republic Artem Zdunov and held a meeting with heads of executive agencies and an expanded meeting of the Commission for the Affairs of Minors and Protection of Their Rights in the republic.

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova made a working trip to the Penza Region where she held a working meeting with Governor Oleg Melnichenko and attended the 10^th anniversary celebration of the Louis Quarter charity.

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova made a working trip to the Donetsk People’s Republic. She communicated with children at a new teenage centre in Mariupol, visited two families that raise foster children in addition to their own children, visited patients at medical institutions in Donetsk and held a personal reception for citizens as part of the National Inspection for Social Orphanhood Prevention System.

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Primorye Territory as part of the Nationwide Inspection of the Social Orphanhood Prevention System.

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Republic of Komi as part of the National Inspection for Social Orphanhood Prevention System.