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The meeting discussed, in particular, the United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Syria, which was vetoed by Russia during the recent vote in the UN Security Council.

Prospects for developing media market and the sector’s modern technologies were the subjects discussed at the meeting.

Talks between Dmitry Medvedev and President of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab took place in the Kremlin.

Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Russia’s educators on Teacher’s Day and presented the award to the national contest winner, biology teacher Alexei Ovchinnikov from Lipetsk Region. 

Current operation of the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, as well as the next steps in forming a common economic space were the subjects on the agenda.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoys to the Federal Districts on the housing and utilities sector’s preparations for the winter season.

The inaugural meeting discussed how the newly-created Board of Trustees of St Panteleimon Monastery will operate.

The current situation in the housing and utilities sector in the regions and the sector’s preparedness for the heating season were the main subjects on the agenda.

Issues discussed at the meeting with commanders of divisions and units of the Armed Forces, Interior Ministry and the Federal Drug Control Service, involved in strategic Centre-2011 military exercises, included personnel and military reform, and service pay.

Training and subsequent employment for highly qualified engineers in priority development sectors of the economy was the subject on the agenda.

Dmitry Medvedev announced that a draft law that will make state administration more effective in terms of preventing corruption will soon be submitted to the State Duma.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with Valentina Matviyenko, who had been elected speaker of the Upper House of Parliament.

Among the subjects discussed at the meeting were investment policy for technological modernisation and the possibilities for developing single-industry towns. 

Dmitry Medvedev and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress Wu Bangguo discussed, in particular, development of Russian-Chinese inter-parliamentary relations.