During the meeting with permanent members of the Security Council (via videoconference). During the meeting with permanent members of the Security Council (via videoconference).

Taking part
in the meeting were Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Mishustin Mikhail Mishustin MikhailPrime Minister of the Russian Federation , State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav
Volodin Volodin Vyacheslav Volodin VyacheslavChairman of the State Duma , Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev Medvedev Dmitry Medvedev DmitryDeputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation , Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino Vaino Anton Vaino AntonChief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office , Presidential Aide Nikolai
Patrushev Patrushev Nikolai Patrushev NikolaiAide to the President , Defence Minister Andrei Belousov Belousov Andrei Belousov AndreiDefence Minister of the Russian Federation , Interior Minister Vladimir
Kolokoltsev Kolokoltsev Vladimir Kolokoltsev VladimirInterior Minister of the Russian Federation , Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Lavrov Sergei Lavrov SergeiMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation , Director of the Federal Security
Service Alexander Bortnikov Bortnikov Alexander Bortnikov AlexanderDirector of the Federal Security Service , and Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service
Sergei Naryshkin Naryshkin Sergei Naryshkin SergeiDirector of the Foreign Intelligence Service .

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President
of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, good afternoon.

There are
two items on the agenda today. The first pertains to the safeguarding of internal security and stability. The second concerns our relations – the development of our relations with our immediate neighbours.

I propose
that we begin with the domestic agenda. We have two speakers: Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov and Interior Minister Vladimir
Kolokoltsev.

Please
proceed.

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