Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of the Russian Security Council (SB) on Wednesday via videoconference.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov earlier explained to TASS that this was a planned meeting and had been prepared in advance. The Kremlin press service announced that it planned to discuss the neutralization of threats to national security in the sphere of migration and regulation of migration processes in the interests of socio-economic development of the country and socio-political stability.
In addition, a report by the deputy chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, who heads the interdepartmental commission of the Security Council on improving state migration policy, is also scheduled. He noted in August that the members of the commission had spent more than six months preparing for this meeting, and a lot of work had been done.
Then Medvedev recalled the preparation of a new comprehensive bill on the conditions of entry, exit and stay of foreigners in Russia. According to him, a number of problems in this area are systemic in nature and their solution requires a comprehensive approach. As explained by the deputy head of the Security Council, among other things, it is about the need to stop "serious threats resulting from the current situation."
The last meeting of the "large" Security Council took place in May, discussing the stability and security of the state information infrastructure.
Along with this, Putin holds regular (usually once a week) briefings with the permanent members of the Security Council. At the last such meetings, the investigation of the sabotage on the Crimean bridge, the organization of partial mobilization, cooperation with CIS countries, patriotic education and provision of housing for servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were on the agenda.
About the commission
Putin signed a decree on the creation of the Security Council commission on improving migration policy in February, and since then several meetings have been held. They discussed the provision of comfortable conditions for those arriving from Donbass, the problem of harassment of Russian citizens abroad, the creation of new information systems in the migration sphere, and the organization of the work of the migration services.
In general, Medvedev stressed that Russia needs to carefully monitor the influx of migrants into the country. He also thinks that Russia shall expand exchange of data on migrants in the post-Soviet territory but abstain from new international agreements in this sphere for the time being.
According to the decree, the commission is designed to solve the problems of ensuring national security of Russia in the field of migration and regulation of migration processes in the interests of socio-economic development of the country, to coordinate the activities of authorities and organizations in the implementation of migration policy. The commission is also responsible for such functions as analysis of the state of the migration situation in the country, identification of internal and external threats to national security in this sphere, preparation of relevant proposals and recommendations to the Council, development of the main directions for the improvement of the legal regulation of the migration sphere, etc.
The commission includes the prosecutor general, the director of the FSB, the chairman of the Investigative Committee, heads of ministries and other representatives of the government, the presidential administration, the State Duma and the Federation Council, heads of several agencies, as well as the presidents of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
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Based on materials TASS