Putin to pay two-day working visit to Crimea
MOSCOW. Aug 13 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a two-day working visit to Crimea. He will hold an operational meeting with Russian Security Council members and meet with representatives of State Duma factions.
Putin will hold the operational meeting of the Russian Security Council on Wednesday and the president and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will meet with parliament members in Yalta on Thursday.
"Political representatives of the country will be in Crimea and Russian President Vladimir Putin will address them," Peskov told reporters on Monday.
According to Peskov, in several weeks there will be "a very active start of the domestic political season, which will be marked with September elections." "It can be expected that this issue will be included in the agenda. But of course, the agenda, in which we all live together, cannot go unnoticed," he said.
State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin, leaders of State Duma factions and heads of federal ministries will attend the meeting.
"A frank conversation with parliament members is expected to cover pressing matters of national life highlighted at the meetings between deputies, citizens and labor collectives, for instance, those held in the Republic of Crimea," the Kremlin press service said on Tuesday. "An emphasis will be put on party work in the contemporary competitive environment."
The trip will also include a meeting with cultural workers. It will focus on Crimea's integration into the Russian cultural space.
The State Duma factions are set to discuss a broad range of issues with the president, from the international recognition of Crimea, the situation in southeastern Ukraine and the Western sanctions to the housing and public utilities reform and the substitution of imports.
