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The meeting was attended by Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration Anton Vaino, Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev, Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov, Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin, as well as Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky and Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Igor Kostyukov.
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Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
We have an important and, I believe, very interesting item on today's agenda: measures to improve the effectiveness of fundamental and applied research in the interests of national defense and state security. We will discuss that topic.
Before we begin the discussion of the main item, however, I would ask our colleagues who were recently in Geneva — where they met with American and Ukrainian delegations to explore possible solutions, peaceful solutions, to what is happening on this track — to brief us.
The delegation was led by Vladimir Rostislavovich [Medinsky]. I would like to give him the floor, and then to a colleague from the Ministry of Defense. They have already reported to me, but I would like all permanent members of the Security Council to also be informed directly, as they say, from the source — to hear from our colleagues about how the discussions proceeded and what was agreed upon.
Please, let us begin.