29 Mar 2013 10:01

Putin wants National Popular Front to become a movement

ROSTOV-ON-DON. March 29 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed re-organizing the National Popular Front into a movement and holding its founding congress on June 11-12.

"I suggest holding meetings like the one we are having today regularly. Furthermore, the National Popular Front should be turned into a public movement, and I propose holding this movement's founding congress in a couple of months - on June 11-12," Putin said at the front's conference on Friday.