A meeting with senior Council of the Federation officials and the leaders of State Duma factions. With President (from right to left): Speaker of the Council of Federation Sergei Mironov, Speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Zhukov and Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
They need to be solved consistently and gradually with all the branches of power involved, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with senior members of both houses of parliaments that focused on how to achieve the goals set in the President’s 2004 and 2005 state of the Addresses to the Federal Assembly.
The priorities that the President set for the government and parliament include market and administrative incentives for attracting investment to the economy, higher public sector wages, increasing the authority of parliamentary political parties and representative authorities, and mass media independence.