On August 17, Vladimir Putin will chair a State Council Presidium meeting in the Kremlin on public transport development in the Russian Federation.
The main reports will be delivered by Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev and Chair of the State Council Commission on Transport, Head of the Republic of Buryatia Alexei Tsydenov. It is also expected that Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin and Governor of the Kursk Region Roman Starovoit will speak at the meeting.
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On the same day, Vladimir Putin and Sergei Sobyanin will launch passenger traffic on the third line of the Moscow Central Diameters (MCD-3) as part of the Year of New Transport Framework exhibition and will look at the plans to develop transport infrastructure of the Moscow Region.