15 May 2012, Tuesday
Dmitry Medvedev meets with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan The Russian Prime Minister said that Russia will fully support Armenia in its nation-building efforts, and in addressing socio-economic issues. “We remain good friends and allies,” Dmitry Medvedev said.
Dmitry Medvedev meets with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko The Prime Minister said he is sure that the integration processes that both the Belarusian president and he have been involved with in recent years will bear fruit for the development of their two countries and peoples.
Dmitry Medvedev holds meeting with President Vladimir Putin "According to the Federal Constitutional Law on the Government and in line with the agreements we made, I have consulted with my advisors and drafted a presidential decree on the structure of the federal executive bodies. It has been thoroughly analysed and approved by me as Prime Minister. I am now handing it over to you for consideration".
Acting First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov holds a teleconference to discuss measures taken to prevent and put out wildfires in the regions
14 May 2012, Monday
Dmitry Medvedev holds a series of meetings on the formation of the future government structure and appointments
12 May 2012, Saturday
Dmitry Medvedev chairs a meeting on implementing the Presidential Executive Orders “These directives imply a very fast pace for the government. We have little time to prepare for them – and we must implement them despite this distracting period of forming new federal executive bodies. We have to start today.”
11 May 2012, Friday
Dmitry Medvedev has a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting with Tambov Region Governor Oleg Betin The meeting focused on improving social services. According to Dmitry Medvedev, it is necessary to take every effort to attract young professionals and experts who will not only enter the field because they feel it is their vocation but because there is a sound system of incentives and growth opportunities.
Acting Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin visits the Raduga State Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau, part of the Tactical Missiles Corporation
Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting in Tambov on improving social services "The social services system should be much more modern, it should be more focused on the needs of our people."
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits a home for veterans and retirees near Tambov
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev inspects a residential building constructed for veterans of the Great Patriotic War while on a working visit to the Tambov Region
10 May 2012, Thursday
Dmitry Medvedev holds brief phone conversation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy
Dmitry Medvedev has a telephone conversation with Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev chairs a meeting of the working group to draft proposals for the Open Government system in the Russian Federation “These three months have shown that we are capable of working quickly and efficiently and that even the boldest ideas can be translated at least into directives. I hope that these directives, their implementation will help us create a fundamentally new environment for public dialogue and for the advancement of economic relations, an environment where anti-corruption standards will be applied they way they should.”
9 May 2012, Wednesday
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev on the telephone
Dmitry Medvedev attends a military parade on Red Square marking the 67th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
8 May 2012, Tuesday
Dmitry Medvedev holds telephone conversations with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov at the Government House