The President answered questions from media representatives.

Concluding a series of bilateral meetings, Vladimir Putin met with President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev, who arrived in Moscow to take part in celebrations marking the 81^st anniversary of Victory.

Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of Abkhazia Badra Gunba, who arrived in Moscow for celebrations marking the 81^st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Vladimir Putin met with President of Republika Srpska Sinisa Karan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska Nenad Stevandic, President of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats party Milorad Dodik, and Head of the Republika Srpska Mission to the Russian Federation Dusko Perovic.

Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin with President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic Thongloun Sisoulith, who arrived in Russia to take part in the Victory Day celebrations.

Vladimir Putin met with Supreme Ruler of Malaysia Sultan Ibrahim who had arrived in Moscow for celebrations marking the 81^st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin with Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Robert Fico, who arrived in Moscow for the Victory Day celebrations.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who is in Russia for celebrations of the 81^st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who came to Russia for celebrations of the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Kremlin with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who came to Moscow for celebrations of the 81^st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

On the 81^st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, as well as to the peoples of Georgia and Moldova.

Vladimir Putin signed Federal Law On the Ratification of the Agreement on the Fundamentals of Relations between the Russian Federation and the Togolese Republic.

Vladimir Putin signed Federal Law On the Ratification of the Agreement on Military Cooperation between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua.

The President signed Federal Law On Ratifying the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic on the Terms for Building the Campus of the First President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the participants and guests of the 11^th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Vladimir Putin hosted in the Kremlin President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, who is in Russia on a state visit.