Putin held the Council of People's Commissars of two working days in a row. This has not happened at least from May 2020

Vladimir Putin held a meeting on Monday with permanent members of the Security Council. Before that, he conferred with the Security Council on Friday. That is, the meetings took place two working days in a row. So often Putin did not collect the council at least from May 2020, publications on the Kremlin website testify.

Details. The meeting with the Security Council on Monday Putin devoted to the topic of information security. On Friday, representatives of the Council of Ministers discussed international cooperation in the fight against terrorism. The Kremlin press service does not give other details of the content of meetings.

• This is an amazing frequency of conducting owls. After the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine, twice meetings were held with a difference of one working day - December 2 and 6, 2022 (Thursday and Monday) and February 9 and 13, 2024 (also Thursday and Monday). However, there were no cases of the Council of People's Commissars in a row for at least May 2020 (the Agency failed to find earlier publications at the request of the “Meeting of the Security Council” on the Kremlin website).

• The main difference between today's meeting from Friday was the participation of the new Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov in it. On Friday, Belousov did not participate in the meeting, despite the fact that he took the post of head of the Ministry of Defense two weeks earlier.

• The absence of Belousov on the Council of Security on Friday looked strange, because by this moment he was already in the status of the Minister of Defense for two weeks and was supposed to enter the Security Council. In 2012, Sergei Shoigu appeared at the first meeting of the Security Council, held two days after his appointment. The Friday meeting of the Security Council was the first since the appointment of Belousov.

• At the same time, the new minister is still not indicated among the regular members of the Security Council on the Kremlin website. The decree on its appointment in the Security Council has not been published. When the Minister of Defense changed the last time, the decree on the introduction of Shoigu in the Council of Security appeared on the day of his appointment by the Minister.

• During the video conference, Belousov was dressed in military uniform. The general's epaulettes were on his tunic, because the official has the rank of a real state councilor of the first class, which corresponds to the military rank of Army General, Kommersant noted . At the same time, Belousov was not promoted to the generals, but retained the civil rank, TASS specified .