The President met with editors of the federal lineup of history textbooks for years 5 to 11 of secondary school as well as vocational schools.

The winners were announced at a special briefing by Presidential Aide Andrei Fursenko, Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky and Presidential Adviser and Chair of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeyev.

Vladimir Putin held a videoconference meeting of the Council for State Policy on Promoting the Russian Language and Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.

The President held a meeting with Government members, via videoconference.

The ceremony was held in the House of the Russian Union of Writers in Moscow.

Vladimir Putin signed executive orders awarding the 2024 Presidential Prize for Young Culture Professionals and the 2024 Presidential Prize for Writing and Art for Children and Young People.

Presidential Aide and Secretary of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art Vladimir Medinsky was elected head of the Russian Union of Writers at its 17^th Congress.

Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky chaired the first meeting of the expanded presidium of the updated Interdepartmental Commission on Historical Education.

The event focused on the preparation and participation of the book community in the celebration of the 80^th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Presidential Aide, Secretary of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art Vladimir Medinsky held a meeting to prepare a Council’s session.

Vladimir Putin visited the State Hermitage Museum and presented the Order for Services to the Fatherland, I Degree, to museum’s Director General Mikhail Piotrovsky.

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

Vladimir Putin visited the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum and Heritage Site, including the reconstructed rooms of the Alexander Pushkin Memorial Lyceum and Museum and The Poet and the Tsar exhibition dedicated to the 225th birth anniversary of the great poet.

Vladimir Putin held a videoconference meeting of the Russian Pobeda (Victory) Organising Committee.

On July 1–2, Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky visited the Hellenic Republic, where he took part in the official opening ceremony of the Russia-Greece Year of History, held under the patronage of the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of Greece.

A memorial to Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuryev was unveiled in the town of Volokolamsk, Moscow Region. The monument was erected by the Russian Military Historical Society to mark the 95^th birth anniversary of this outstanding member of the clergy, public figure, and statesperson.

Aide to the President and Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society Vladimir Medinsky took part in the closing ceremony of the regular International Search Expedition Rzhev. Kalinin Front.

Presidential Aide and Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society Vladimir Medinsky took part in the ceremony to unveil a Civil War monument on Karantynnaya Bay.