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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