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    Putin Announces New Russian Security Council

    © RIA Novosti. Yana Lapikova
    12:33 26/05/2012
    MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti)


    Russian President Vladimir Putin has named the new members of the
    national Security Council, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

    The council is a presidential consultative body that works out
    decisions on national security affairs. It is composed of key
    ministers and agency heads.

    Putin appointed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Security
    Council Chief Alexander Bortnikov, Presidential Administration head
    Sergei Ivanov, Interior Affairs Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign
    Minister Sergei Lavrov, Federation Council Speaker Valentina
    Matvienko, Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Russian Security Council
    Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and his deputy Rashid Nurgaliyev, Defense
    Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Foreign Intelligence (SVR) director
    Mikhail Fradkov and Boris Gryzlov new members of the council.

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