Last evening, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held an informal meeting with activists of the Russian Popular Front and leaders of the United Russia party in Sochi. Participants in the meeting discussed issues linked with the establishment of the Russian Popular Front and preparations for parliamentary elections
This event involved Boris Gryzlov, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party and Speaker of the Federal Assembly's State Duma; Vladislav Surkov, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office; Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Volodin, Chief of Staff at the Government's Executive Office; Oleg Morozov, First Deputy Speaker of the Federal Assembly's State Duma; Svetlana Orlova, Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party and Deputy Speaker of the Federal Assembly's Federation Council; Sergei Neverov, Acting Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party and Deputy of the Federal Assembly's State Duma; Andrei Isayev, Deputy Secretary for Campaign Work of the Presidium of the United Russia party's General Council and Chairman of the State Duma's Committee on Labour and Social Policy; Andrei Vorobyov, Head of the Central Executive Committee of the United Russia party and Deputy Head of the United Russia parliamentary party in the Federal Assembly's State Duma; Mikhail Babich, Chairman of the Commission of the United Russia General Council Presidium for work with public petitions to the party chairman and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Committee on Defence; Yekaterina Lakhova, Chairperson of the Union of Russian Women and Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma's Committee on Labour and Social Policy; Vladimir Plotnikov, Member of the Federal Assembly's Federation Council and Chairman of the Association of Russian Farms and Agricultural Cooperatives; Timur Prokopenko, Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Russian Public Organisation Molodaya Gvardiya (United Russia's Young Guard); Mikhail Shmakov, Chairman of the Federation of Independent Russian Trade Unions, and Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
