Russian President Vladimir Putin held a discussion on Friday about internal stability with the permanent members of the Security Council.
According to TASS, reports were made by the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, and the Interior Minister, Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
“Today we will discuss some issues of strengthening internal stability in the current conditions. We have three speakers: Bortnikov, Naryshkin, and Kolokoltsev,” Putin said.
The meeting was also attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, speakers of the Federation Council and the State Duma Valentina Matviyenko and Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, chief of the Russian Presidential Staff Anton Vaino, Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev, and Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergey Ivanov.
Meanwhile, Putin is set to visit Turkey in August, but the exact date has not yet been set,
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “At the moment, the foreign and intelligence ministers are working on the issue. I hope that as a result of their work, the visit will take place in August.”
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that “the place of the meeting will be negotiated, it is not necessarily Turkey.” At the same time, he recalled that “Erdogan invites [Putin] to visit him in Turkey.”
