Vladimir Putin congratulated Stavropol residents on the 240^th anniversary of the city’s founding.

Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions following a meeting with North Caucasus Federal University students on January 25, 2016.

Vladimir Putin took part in a plenary session of the Russian Popular Front public movement’s interregional forum.

Vladimir Putin marked the Students’ Day holiday by visiting the North Caucasus Federal University, where he met with students and staff of southern Russia’s biggest academic and research centre.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov made a working trip to Pyatigorsk.

Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on agriculture development in Russia. The meeting was held at the Stavropol State Agrarian University.

While on a working trip to Stavropol Territory, Vladimir Putin visited the Rossiya Agricultural Cooperative, where he watched the barley harvest in progress and spoke with the business’ employees.

Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Acting Governor of Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov to discuss prospects for developing the Kavkazskiye Mineralnye Vody resort area and resettling people out of dilapidated housing in the region.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with acting Governor of Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Early Termination of the Mandate of Stavropol Territory Governor.

The President submitted candidacies for the posts of three regional governors for consideration by the parliaments of Stavropol Territory, Perm Territory and Yaroslavl Region.

Dmitry Medvedev was presented with the names of candidates for the posts of head of Buryatia, Stavropol and Perm territories, and Leningrad and Yaroslavl regions.

The President signed Executive Order On Early Termination of the Mandate of Stavropol Territory Governor.

In the Stavropol Territory, Dmitry Medvedev visited the Rodina farm, where he met with farmers and the United Russia core group. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also took part in the discussion.

Dmitry Medvedev was interested, in particular, in the development of education and rise in teachers’ salaries in the region. The issues discussed also included the transition of the territory’s schools to a new system of legal organisation.

In the morning on September 1, Dmitry Medvedev visited a general education school in the village of Verkhnerusskoye, Stavropol Territory, where he sat in the first and eleventh form’s lessons. Later, the President took part in the opening ceremony of the Stavropol Presidential Cadet Academy, established at the premises of the former Defence Ministry aviation engineering college.

In accordance with the Federal Law On the Police Force, the President issued executive orders on appointments to senior Interior Ministry posts in the North Caucasus.

The meeting attended by heads of law enforcement, security and supervisory bodies, and regional governors, discussed the progress in implementation of presidential instructions issued at previous meetings on security in the North Caucasus.

Mr Gayevsky briefed the President on the socioeconomic situation in the region.

During a trip to Stavropol Territory, Dmitry Medvedev visited an Interior Ministry’s motorised battalion base, where he spoke with the servicemen and reviewed the arms and equipment the unit has at its disposal.

During the meeting, the President emphasised that the new law must contain the clearest, most precise definitions possible, and that all ambiguities must be eliminated. Mr Medvedev noted the importance of a broad public discussion of the document.

During a working meeting, Stavropol Territory Governor Valery Gayevsky briefed Dmitry Medvedev on the situation in the region and assistance being rendered to those injured in the terrorist attack in Pyatigorsk on August 17.

Valery Gayevsky briefed the President on the measures being taken to support the families of those killed and injured in the terrorist act in Stavropol, and to establish the causes of the explosion.