Taking part in the meeting were Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, 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, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov, Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev, and Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Maksut Shadayev.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
We will discuss information security issues. The speaker is Maksut Shadayev, Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media.
Let’s get down to work.
I welcome everybody again.
Please, Mr Shadayev. Go ahead.
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