Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Deputy State Duma Speaker and Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and LDPR parliamentary leader Igor Lebedev
The prime minister intended the meeting with Messrs Zhirinovsky and Lebedev to be the first in a series of preliminary consultations with the leaders of different political factions in the Duma in anticipation of the government’s 2010 report to parliament. “I would like to hear your opinions and make the necessary changes to the report I am going to make in parliament,” he said.
