Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov and Adviser to the President Vladimir Tolstoy held a joint session of the Presidiums of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations and the Council on the Russian Language.

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov held the final meeting of the working group to draft the Basics of the State Cultural Policy. The final version of the document will be submitted to the President at a joint meeting of the State Council and the Council for Culture and Art.

Presidential Adviser Vladimir Tolstoy chaired a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Russian Language.

Vladimir Putin singed a list of instructions following his meeting with culture figures on August 14, 2014.

Vladimir Putin met with members of the museum community to discuss prospects for developing local history research in the regions and measures to support local history museums.

Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions based on the results of the July 3, 2014 meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations.

Mr Tolstoy presented to Vladimir Putin the draft Basic Principles of State Culture Policy.

Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions following the Russian Literary Assembly, held on November 21, 2013.