Meeting with Government members

The meeting focused on the use of Russian-made software in the economy, but first its participants discussed several current issues, in particular, the flood situation in the Russian regions.

The meeting was also attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Kiriyenko, Deputy Prime Minister - Chief of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister - Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Ministers Viktoria Abramchenko, Tatyana Golikova, Alexander Novak and Dmitry Chernyshenko, Presidential Aide Maxim Oreshkin, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov, and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov.

Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Alexander Kurenkov, Healthcare Minister Mikhail Murashko, Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev, Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities Irek Faizullin, Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Maksut Shadayev, Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina, the governors of the Kurgan, Orenburg and Tyumen regions, as well as the heads of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control and the Roscosmos State Corporation had also been invited to attend.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Let us begin with the floods. Mr Kurenkov will be the first to speak. You briefed me yesterday. In fact, we talk nearly every day. Please, update us on the current situation.

To be continued.