Presidential instructions following a meeting with Council for Interethnic Relations 2012-06-29 18:00:00 Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions issued following a meeting with members of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations. Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky was instructed to consider holding a yearly national folk festival Together We are Russia and to submit corresponding suggestions. Communications and Mass Media Minister Nikolai Nikiforov was instructed to submit suggestions on launching a television programme on the history, culture and traditions of different peoples in Russia to be broadcasted on a federal television channel.