Present at the meeting were Chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, his first deputies Aleksandr Zhukov and Lyubov Sliska, his other deputies Georgy Boos, Vyacheslav Volodin, Vladimir Pekhtin, the first deputies of the leader of the United Russia faction Vladimir Katrenko, Valery Bogomolov, Yury Volkov and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Vladislav Surkov.