Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council

The discussion focused on the situation at the maximum security penal colony No. 19 in Surovikino, Volgograd Region, where several prisoners have taken prison employees hostage.

Taking part in the meeting were Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Mishustin MikhailPrime Minister of the Russian Federation, 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, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Lavrov SergeiMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov Bortnikov AlexanderDirector of the Federal Security Service, and Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov Ivanov SergeiSpecial Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, good afternoon.

The Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service has briefed me on the ongoing situation in one of the prisons in the Volgograd Region. In this regard, I would like to hear what the Interior Minister and the FSB Director have to say. Mr Zolotov Zolotov ViktorDirector of the Federal Service of National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation - Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation[Director of the Federal Service of National Guard Troops] will be here for a meeting soon and provide his assessments.

After that, let us proceed to the regular issue that Mr Kolokoltsev planned to discuss.

Let us begin our work by hearing from the Interior Minister. Mr Kolokoltsev, please share your assessment of the situation in Volgograd.

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