September 18, 2014. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) and Voronezh Region Governor Alexei Gordeyev after the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. From right: President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin (second left) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) after the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev after the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov (from right in the foreground) after the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. From right: Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Valery Shantsev, Murmansk Region Governor Marina Kovtun and Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Alexander Shokhin, president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (right) and Presidential Envoy to the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyyuganov and Vladimir Region Governor Svetlana Orlova before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Valery Shantsev before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev (right) and Presidential Aide Igor Levitin before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov, State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin and Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (second left) before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Journalists before the meeting of the Russian State Council in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov and Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. From right: President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin (right) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. From right: President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin (right) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin (right) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin (right) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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September 18, 2014. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (right) and State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin before the Russian State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

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