Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Early Termination of Powers of the Yaroslavl Region Governor.

In Yaroslavl, Vladimir Putin chaired a State Council Presidium meeting on road safety in Russia.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Yaroslavl Region Governor Sergei Yastrebov to consider the social and economic situation in the region.

Vladimir Putin and Mr Yastrebov discussed the region’s social and economic development.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Yaroslavl Region Governor Sergei Yastrebov.

Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Governor of Yaroslavl Region Sergei Yastrebov and residents of the region.

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 Yaroslavl Region Governor, and by the same Executive Order appointed Sergei Yastrebov acting governor of the region.

Dmitry Medvedev and President of Turkey Abdullah Gul paid tribute to the memory of the Lokomotiv ice hockey team players and Yak-42 crew members killed in the plane crash near Yaroslavl.

The main theme of the Forum was The Modern State in the Age of Social Diversity.

Dmitry Medvedev met with Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova.

The President laid flowers at the site of the crash in which members of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team lost their lives.

Dmitry Medvedev expressed his condolences to the families and friends of those killed in the plane crash near Yaroslavl and to all fans of the Lokomotiv ice hockey team.

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

Dmitry Medvedev took a walk around the city and attended the concert Ancient City Looking into the Future, dedicated to 1,000 years of Yaroslavl.

Mr Vakhrukov briefed the President on preparations for the Global Policy Forum The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency, and the celebrations of 1,000 years since Yaroslavl’s founding.

In his remarks at the conference Mr Medvedev said that the global economic crisis has overturned ideas trendy at the end of the twentieth century on the declining role of states in the globalisation era.