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Vladimir Putin met with officers appointed to senior command posts and awarded higher military (special) titles and ranks.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Commission for Military Technical Cooperation with Foreign States.

Vladimir Putin met with President and CEO of BASF Kurt Bock.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Governor of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina to discuss the 2016 results.

Vladimir Putin received President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov at the Kremlin. President Tibilov is in Moscow at the Russian President’s invitation.

Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Presidential Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects at the Kremlin.

Mr Donskoy briefed the President on measures to enhance the efficiency of subsoil resource use, develop a system of protected natural zones, and support eco-tourism.

Vladimir Putin met with President of Moldova Igor Dodon in the Kremlin. The two leaders discussed arrangements reached following top-level talks in January, trade and economic cooperation, and topical regional issues.

Vladimir Putin met with Minister-President of the Federal Land of Bavaria Horst Seehofer, who is in Moscow at the invitation of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Vladimir Putin addressed a plenary session of the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Vladimir Putin received letters of credence from 18 foreign ambassadors. The ceremony, which symbolises the official start of the ambassadors’ missions in Russia, took place in the Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with General Director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives [ASI] Svetlana Chupsheva. The discussion focussed on the Agency’s work on key activity areas, in particular, developing the investment climate and business activity in Russia and support for social and business projects.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Presidential Aide Andrei Fursenko and director of the Russian Science Foundation Alexander Khlunov. Implementation of the mega-grants programme for young scientists to carry out research was the subject of discussion.

Vladimir Putin met with President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who is in Russia on an official visit. The two presidents discussed key bilateral cooperation matters and prospects for the development of integration cooperation in the Eurasian region.

At a reception in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin presented Naina Yeltsina with the Order of St Catherine the Great Martyr and congratulated her on her birthday.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Government members in the Kremlin.

Vladimir Putin attended a meeting of the Prosecutor General Office’s Board, where he assessed the prosecution agencies’ performance in 2016 and outlined their priority tasks for 2017.

Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy to the Volga District and Chairman of the State Commission for Chemical Disarmament Mikhail Babich. Russia’s international obligations with regard to destruction of chemical weapons were the subject of discussion.

Following the meeting of the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a joint news conference.