Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, Chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Sobyanin, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Secretary of the Security Council Igor Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Director of the Federal Security Service Nikolai Patrushev, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev, and Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Lebedev all participated in the meeting.
They discussed issues concerning interior and foreign policy.
At the meeting, they also examined measures designed to further improve migration policy and to assist those compatriots presently living abroad who wish to return to Russia.
Presidential Aide Viktor Ivanov and Director of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky also took part in the discussion.