The President held, via videoconference,
a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council.
The meeting was attended by Prime Minister
Mikhail Mishustin, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of Staff of the Presidential
Executive Office Anton Vaino, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai
Patrushev, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Director of the Federal Security Service
Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei
Naryshkin, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection,
Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov, and Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuychenko.
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President of Russia
Vladimir Putin:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Today, we have an opportunity and the need to exchange information on current issues – both from the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But the first issue for discussion comes from
the Ministry of Justice. We have invited the Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuychenko.
I will now give him the floor. Please, Mr Chuychenko.
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