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The President summed up the results of the reforms at the ministry, assessed its work over 2011, and outlined the priority tasks for the coming period.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with Foreign Ministry staff on the eve of their professional holiday, the Diplomats' Day.

Dmitry Medvedev presented the banner of the Federal Drug Control Service to its director, Viktor Ivanov.

Dmitry Medvedev awarded the President’s Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists for 2011 to Alexander Blagov, Pavel Kovalev, Viktor Orlov, Vladimir Komlev, and Andrei Raigorodsky.

Dmitry Medvedev addressed an expanded meeting of the Federal Security Service board.

Dmitry Medvedev discussed relevant issues such as modernising Russia’s political system and pursuing the country’s economic and social development with members of the Public Supporters’ Committee.

Implementing the 2012–2014 state defence procurement orders, the defence industry’s development prospects, and improving defence industry organisation and management were the main issues on the agenda at the meeting.

Dmitry Medvedev discussed the North Caucasus tourism cluster development at a working meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District Alexander Khloponin.

The minister reported to Dmitry Medvedev on the progress in amending Civil Code.

Dmitry and Svetlana Medvedev congratulated Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on the third anniversary of his enthronement.

Dmitry Medvedev met with medallists at the European Figure Skating Championship that took place in Sheffield.

Improvement in mechanisms of selecting judges and holding them to disciplinary liability were the main issues discussed at the meeting.

During a visit to the Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for the Moscow Region, Dmitry Medvedev presented state decorations to Interior Ministry officers and military servicemen for their distinguished service in defending public order.

Dmitry Medvedev presented state decorations to arbitration courts judges at a ceremony marking the 20^th anniversary of the arbitration court system’s establishment.

Dmitry Medvedev met in the Kremlin's Catherine Hall with medal winners at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics held on January 13–22 in Innsbruck, Austria.

Dmitry Medvedev marked Russian Students Day by discussing current national political, social and economic development issues with students from the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

This year's first meeting of the Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russia's Economy was devoted to improving the investment climate.

Dmitry Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev discussed current Russian-Azerbaijani relations and the situation in the Caucasus region.