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Vladimir Putin met with senior Defence Ministry and Security Council Staff officials to discuss the results of snap military exercises held on March 28–29 in Krasnodar Territory.

Vladimir Putin attended a gala match at the National Amateur Ice Hockey Teams’ Festival, organised by the Russian Amateur Ice Hockey League.

Vladimir Putin attended the military parade on Red Square to celebrate the 68^th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Putin welcomed US Secretary of State John Kerry to the Kremlin. Mr Kerry is in Russia on a working visit.

Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the implementation of presidential executive orders signed on the inauguration day of May 7, 2012.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with director of the Dima Rogachev Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Immunology Alexander Rumyantsev and the Centre’s deputy director and chief medical officer Galina Novichkova.

Vladimir Putin visited the Maria Savina Theatre Veterans’ Home where renovations will finish in May, and met with theatre community representatives.

Vladimir Putin awarded Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation medals and title certificates to five Russian citizens for their outstanding achievements in state and public work and their big contribution to Russia’s socioeconomic development, including in production, transport, construction, science, culture, education, and healthcare. 

Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, a nationwide public organisation.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education.

Meeting participants discussed the development of Nizhny Tagil. Regional representatives also attended the meeting.

The subjects discussed included implementation of the President’s Annual Address to the Federal Assembly and the presidential executive orders of May 2012.