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Before the VIII Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum, Dmitry Medvedev and Nursultan Nazarbayev reviewed bilateral cooperation issues and the future development of the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Dmitry Medvedev and university rectors, representatives of student organisations and heads of several Russian regions discussed the issues of increasing scholarships, improving students’ living conditions, developing campuses and students’ healthcare.

The meeting addressed possible methods for supporting the club, which lost its core members in a plane crash near Yaroslavl, as well as support for the victims’ families.

The main theme of the Forum was The Modern State in the Age of Social Diversity.

The President laid flowers at the site of the crash in which members of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team lost their lives.

Dmitry Medvedev, HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and HRH Prince Consort Henrik took part in the opening of the Danish-Russian photo exhibition The Arctic at the Moscow House of Photography.

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

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.

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

Dmitry Medvedev announced his decision to submit Georgy Poltavchenko’s candidacy for the post of St Petersburg Governor for consideration by the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly.