Attending 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 Sergei Shoigu, Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev, Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues,
Today we will discuss matters pertaining to the regional agenda and regional policy, with a focus, of course, on ensuring and addressing security issues.
We have two speakers: Vladimir Kolokoltsev and Alexander Bortnikov. Let us begin.
Please proceed.
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