Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting to discuss the new draft of Russia’s Marine Doctrine.

Vladimir Putin took part in the unified military goods commissioning day. The event was organised via videoconference from the National Defence Command Centre.

Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions following the Direct Line with Vladimir Putin live call-in programme on April 16, 2015.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov.

Vladimir Putin chaired the 36^th meeting of the Russian Victory Organising Committee at the Grand Kremlin Palace. Great Patriotic War veterans and heads of veteran and youth public organisations also took part in the meeting.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to discuss defence and security spending and financial provisions for needed structural change and modernisation of arms and equipment.

Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions following a meeting with young academics and history teachers that took place on November 5, 2014.

Vladimir Putin took part in the Russian Geographical Society’s XV congress.

After a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council, Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Vladimir Putin on the Vostok 2014 strategic command-and-staff exercises.

Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions following a meeting on socioeconomic development of Samara Region, held on July 21, 2014.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday evening. Mr Shoigu briefed the President on the results of the snap inspection of Central Military District forces’ combat readiness.

Vladimir Putin observed a training session to test the administration of the Russian Armed Forces, which focussed on the deployment of individual units and divisions of missile forces, artillery, aviation, air defence and aerospace defence forces.

Vladimir Putin signed instructions for a number of federal ministries and agencies.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council, during which a detailed discussion on the situation in Ukraine took place.

In the course of his meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, the President signed instructions to revive the Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School and to recognise the military ranks and documents of military education of those Ukrainian service members who expressed their will to serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu briefed Vladimir Putin via video linkup from Severodvinsk on the deployment of strategic nuclear missile submarine Alexander Nevsky by the Russian Navy.

Vladimir Putin met with Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Healthcare Minister Veronika Skvortsova, Labour Minister Maxim Topilin, and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to discuss budget preparation matters.

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Chairman of the Eurasian Centre for the Study, Preservation and Rehabilitation of the Leopard Population Sergei Ivanov and Defence Minister and President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergei Shoigu signed a cooperation agreement on the sidelines of the International Arctic Forum.