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Yelena Skrynnik briefed Dmitry Medvedev on the performance of agribusiness in 2011 and planned grain exports.

Dmitry Medvedev signed executive orders appointing Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoys to three federal districts.

The official welcoming ceremony for Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Prince Consort Henrik and Crown Prince Frederik was held at the Kremlin's St George Hall.

Dmitry Medvedev had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda. The conversation took place at the initiative of the Japanese side.

Following the State Council Presidium meeting of the June 9, 2011, the Russian Government was instructed jointly with Krasnodar Territory authorities to take measures to ensure environmental safety in preparations for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, including strict compliance with to commitments set firth in the Sochi 2014 Bid Book.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting on the main policy lines for drafting the budget for the next three years

On the sidelines of the CIS Summit in Dushanbe, Dmitry Medevdev had a brief meeting with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine and its transit via Ukrainian territory.

Dmitry Medvedev and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov discussed the forthcoming visit of Turkmenistan’s leader to Russia, as well as bilateral economic and humanitarian cooperation.

The CIS leaders took stock of 20 years of cooperation. After the talks, CIS heads of state adopted a package of documents on cooperation within the CIS, as well as an agreement to perpetuate the memory of the Commonwealth nations that fought in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.

Russian-Tajikistani talks on bilateral economic, trade, military technical and humanitarian cooperation have taken place in Dushanbe. Issues on the regional and international agendas were also discussed.

Dmitry Medvedev, Hamid Karzai, Asif Ali Zardari, and Emomali Rahmon held a four-party meeting in Dushanbe.

Dmitry Medvedev congratulated residents of Kabardino-Balkaria on the 90^th anniversary of the republic’s establishment.

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.

Several days ago Dmitry Medvedev signed an Executive Order appointing Alexander Sukhorukov First Deputy Defence Minister. Per the President’s directive, Mr Sukhorukov will be in charge of monitoring the state defence order at the Defence Ministry.

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.

Dmitry Medvedev sent his congratulations to President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on Independence Day, Uzbekistan’s national holiday.

Dmitry Medvedev chaired a meeting of the Commission for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy on developing school education.

Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev reported to the President by telephone on the measures the federal Interior Ministry officials are taking together with the police in Chechnya to deal with the aftermath of the blasts in Grozny and find the perpetrators.