Taking part in the meeting were Speaker of the State Duma 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 Sergey Shoigu, Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev, Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov, Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin, and Deputy Prime Minister – Chief of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good evening, colleagues.
We have several issues. The first one is about supplementary measures for developing artificial intelligence in the interests of national security and defence. The report will be made by Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov.
Please, Mr Belousov.
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