Dmitry Medvedev approved a list of instructions drawn up following a meeting with people with disabilities and members of NGOs representing their interests on November 16, 2011. 

Political, economic, and humanitarian relations between the two countries were the subjects of discussion.

Sergei Naryshkin met with United Nations Under-Secretary-General Yury Fedotov.

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Naryshkin met with Kyrgyz Prime Minister and presidential candidate Almazbek Atambayev.

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Naryshkin spoke at the opening of the 21^st Century: Hopes and Challenges International Humanitarian Forum in Baku.

Issues on the agenda included improving the work of the examination boards conducting qualification tests for candidates for judges’ positions, possibilities for reducing the workload of magistrates, and limits on arbitration courts’ subordination.

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive office Sergei Naryshkin held a meeting in the Kremlin with Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief of the Republic of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.

Among the subjects discussed at the meeting were investment policy for technological modernisation and the possibilities for developing single-industry towns. 

Chief of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Naryshkin laid a wreath at the Tree of Grief memorial and a monument to the servicemen killed during the anti-terrorist operation in September 2004 while freeing hostages from a school in Beslan.

The same day, at South Ossetia’s invitation, Sergei Naryshkin arrived in the republic's capital Tskhinval to participate in Independence Day celebrations.

Sergei Naryshkin attended a parade in honour of South Ossetia's Independence Day.

Sergei Naryshkin attended the opening of the First Russian-South Ossetian Business Forum, which gathered the two countries' business leaders in Tskhinval.

At Europe-Russia-Asia Pacific: Developing the Energy Sector international conference held within the framework of the 7^th International Baikal Economic Forum.

Dmitry Medvedev sent his congratulations to President of the Kyrgyz Republic Roza Otunbayeva on the 20^th anniversary of Kyrgyzstan’s independence.

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Naryshkin had a working meeting at the Kremlin with President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity.