Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Sergei Mironov, chairman of the Federation Council and leader of the A Just Russia party, and Nikolai Levichev, the head of party faction in the Duma
This is the prime minister's second meeting with the leaders of parties represented in the Duma, in anticipation of his speech there and the reports from the government. The conversation this time was about food prices and the situation in the agricultural sector, problems of corruption, disparities in wages and in regional development, as well as the modernisation of education.