President Dmitry Medvedev (foreground) speaking at the State Council's enlarged meeting in the Kremlin, April 24, 2012. Background, from left: Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, Vice-Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and the Presidential Office's Deputy Chief Vyacheslav Volodin.