Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov

received on Saturday US Presidential Assistant for National Security Condoleezza Rice, who arrived in Moscow on a visit (see page 10);

held a traditional meeting with members of the Russian Security Council on Saturday. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, head of the presidential administration Dmitry Medvedev, Secretary of the Security Council Igor Ivanov, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, SVR director Sergei Lebedev and FSB director Nikolai Patrushev. Various issues of domestic and foreign policy of the Russian state were discussed at the meeting.

Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov held a working meeting in Moscow with Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Condoleezza Rice, during which a wide range of trade and economic relations between Russia and the United States were discussed. Mikhail Fradkov told Condoleezza Rice about the progress, goals and objectives of the administrative reform being carried out in the Russian Federation, noting that its main goal is to make the country’s economy competitive (see page 10).

Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 86/P dated May 17, 2004, p. 2

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Activities of Mikhail Fradkov

Russian President Vladimir Putin