The meeting was attended by Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, 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 Sergei Shoigu, Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov, and Transport Minister Roman Starovoit.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
We regularly address the need to strengthen protection for various sites against terrorist threats. Today, I suggest we focus on measures to safeguard transportation and transport infrastructure from terrorism.
We have speakers lined up, so let us begin. Mr Starovoit, you have the floor, followed by Mr Kolokoltsev.
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