Vladimir Putin – Personal website

In a videoconference linkup, Head of Rosneft Igor Sechin briefed Vladimir Putin on the start of operations at the Berkut stationary drilling platform in the Arkutun-Dagi field in the Sea of Okhotsk, as part of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project.

At the presentation of letters of credence by foreign ambassadors.

Presentation by foreign ambassadors of their letters of credence. With Ambassador of Jamaica Margaret Anne Louise Jobson.

At the presentation of letters of credence by foreign ambassadors. With Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov.

Before the start of a ceremony presenting foreign ambassadors’ letters of credence.

At a reception in honour of graduates of military academies.

Before the reception in honour of graduates of military academies.

Wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to Soviet soldiers who fell in the liberation of Austria from Nazism.

At a meeting with Austrian business community leaders. With Federal President of Austria Heinz Fischer.

Before the meeting with Austrian business community leaders.

At the news conference following Russian-Austrian talks.

With President of Austria Heinz Fischer.

With President of Austria Heinz Fischer before the start of ceremony for signing Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Austria on mutual assistance following natural or industrial disasters and cooperation in preventing them.

With President of Austria Heinz Fischer.

Official greeting ceremony. With President of Austria Heinz Fischer.

Arrival in Vienna.

Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall on the Day of Memory and Grief. With Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Meeting with journalists.

Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the memorials to the hero cities and cities of military glory on the Day of Memory and Grief.

Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall on the Day of Memory and Grief. With Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov (left) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall on the Day of Memory and Grief. With Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall on the Day of Memory and Grief.

With students at Stavropol State Agrarian University.

During a tour of agricultural equipment at Stavropol State Agrarian University.

With students at Stavropol State Agrarian University.

Vladimir Putin saw the barley harvest in progress while visiting the Rossiya Agricultural Production Cooperative.

At a meeting on agriculture development.

During a meeting with workers at Rossiya Agricultural Cooperative.

Conversation with workers at Rossiya Agricultural Cooperative.

Vladimir Putin saw the barley harvest in progress while visiting the Rossiya Agricultural Production Cooperative.

Presenting Russian Federation National Awards. With winner of the Russian Federation National Award for outstanding achievements in humanitarian work Yevgeny Primakov.

Presenting Russian Federation National Awards.

At the meeting with participants in the Internet Entrepreneurship in Russia Forum.

During the visit to the City of Startups exposition, featuring internet projects.

At a meeting with students from Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University.

Meeting with students from Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University.

Visiting the Arkhangelsk Mining Company.

Vladimir Putin met with Russian veterans of WWII.

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of D-Day. With Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of D-Day. With Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.

Heads of delegations taking part in the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the allied forces’ D-Day landing in Normandy.

Before the start of an official breakfast hosted by the French President to mark the 70th anniversary of the allied forces’ D-Day landing in Normandy. With President of France Francois Hollande.

With Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.

With Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron.

With President of France Francois Hollande.

Before the ceremony for presenting state decorations to the organisers and participants of the project to study the relic subglacial lake Vostok in the Antarctic. At the Russian Geographical Society headquarters in St Petersburg.

Presenting national awards to organisers and participants in the project to study subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. On the right: Director of the RAS Institute of Geography Academician Vladimir Kotlyakov.

Presenting national awards to organisers and participants in the project to study subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. Valery Lukin, deputy director of the Arctic and Antarctic Scientific Research Institute, is awarded the Order for Services to the Fatherland IV degree.

Presenting national awards to organisers and participants in the project to study subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. Nikolai Vasilyev, head of the well-drilling department of the National Mineral Resources University Gorny, is awarded the Order for Services to the Fatherland IV degree.

Speech at a ceremony presenting national awards to organisers and participants in the project to study subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica.

Visiting the Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theatre.