President Putin held separate meetings with Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Ivanov and Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev.
He also had a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, head of the Presidential Executive Office Alexander Voloshin, Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Ivanov and heads of security-related agencies.
All the meetings focused on operations to rescue the crew of the Kursk nuclear-powered submarine, which had sunk in the Barents Sea.