Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

The meeting was attended by Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko Matviyenko ValentinaChairwoman of the Council of Federation, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin Volodin VyacheslavChairman of the State Duma, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev Medvedev DmitryDeputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino Vaino AntonChief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office, Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu Shoigu SergeiSecretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev Patrushev NikolaiAide to the President, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov Belousov AndreiDefence Minister of the Russian Federation, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev Kolokoltsev VladimirInterior Minister of the Russian Federation, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin Naryshkin SergeiDirector of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov Ivanov SergeiSpecial Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport, and Transport Minister Roman Starovoit Starovoit RomanMinister of Transport of the Russian Federation.

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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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