Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets and Chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions Mikhail Shmakov

Dmitry Medvedev said that the government plans to continue raising salaries for education, healthcare, culture and social services employees.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev chairs a government meeting

“We will honour all our social commitments despite the difficult global economic situation.”

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attends the opening of the photo exhibition 1461 Days of President Dmitry Medvedev at the Moscow House of Photography on Ostozhenka Street

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meets with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych while on a working visit to Kiev

“We are focused on the comprehensive development of strategic cooperation with Ukraine as our closest neighbour and partner. For a variety of reasons, we simply have no grounds for reviewing our strategic priorities,” the prime minister said during the meeting.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meets with his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov in Kiev

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev presented the new Russian government to the Ukrainian prime minister and expressed his hope that it “will do everything it can to develop neighbourly and strategic relations with Ukraine.”

Dmitry Medvedev attends a meeting of the Economic Cooperation Committee of the Russian-Ukrainian Interstate Commission

“Ukraine has joined the list of Russia’s major trading partners, and that is absolutely normal in my view. This is Ukraine’s rightful place.”

Dmitry Medvedev and Mykola Azarov sign the protocol of the meeting of the Economic Cooperation Committee of the Russian-Ukrainian Interstate Commission