Vladimir Putin chairs Government Presidium meeting
Transcript of the beginning of the meeting:
Vladimir Putin: Ladies and gentlemen,
As you know, a terrible crime was committed yesterday at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. This outrageous act of senseless violence claimed the lives of several dozen people and injured over 100. I'd like to invite you now to join me in a moment of silence to honour the memory of these people. (Everybody stands up.)
As for the legal side of this tragedy, I am confident that this crime will be solved and that the perpetrators will be punished. It is the government’s duty to provide support to the injured and the families of those killed in the blast. I have already signed the corresponding resolution. The governments of Moscow and the Moscow Region will also allocate funds for social needs from the regional budgets.
I’d like to mention the size of the aggregate social payments. The families of those killed will receive a total of 3 million roubles from the federal and regional budgets. The survivors who suffered grave damage to their health will get 1.9 million, and those with minor injuries will receive 1.2 million. I would like to ask the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development to supervise the distribution of benefits and promptly respond to all requests from the doctors treating the Domodedovo survivors.
There is another important point I’d like to make. People from different regions of Russia and other countries were injured in the blast. It is important to keep their relatives informed about the event and the state of their health.
Therefore, I am asking the Transport Ministry to take care of information issues, along with the airport management, so that news is promptly delivered to any interested party.
Please, Mr Levitin (to the transport Minister), please report on the current situation at Domodedovo, as well as the state of other airports across Russia.
Igor Levitin: Mr Putin, colleagues. The ministry has taken emergency measures to tighten transport security upon the prime minister’s instructions. Airports outside Moscow and elsewhere in Russia immediately switched over to emergency operations. We are working in close contact with the Federal Security Service, the Interior Ministry and the Emergencies Ministry; also, we have been making additional plans to carry out joint actions in emergencies.
I would like to add that we have tightened security and established contact with regional services at all the major railway stations and bus stations. We are working with the mayor of Moscow and the governor of the Moscow Region. We have held an interdepartmental meeting, which was attended by the top ranking officers of the Federal Security Service, the Interior Ministry and the Emergencies Ministry, as well as other federal agencies and services to determine additional measures to tighten transport security.
Vladimir Putin: We’ll discuss transport security later behind closed doors. I would like to hear more about your proposals, and I have my own ideas, too. Now, Ms Golikova (to the Healthcare Minister), would you like to add anything to what you have already told me?
Tatyana Golikova: The death toll from the Domodedovo blast has remained at 35 since this morning, and there are 110 injured. We have received some adjusted data for the survivors currently receiving treatment: as of this hour, we have seven people in critical condition and 40 seriously injured; 49 people are in stable condition, and 14 patients are in good condition. Necessary medical treatment was administered to 24 patients last night. However, as I said, these statistics may change. I just cited the latest figures available.
The process of identifying the victims is progressing slowly. There are foreign nationals among the dead and the seriously injured in the hospitals now. We are working on this together with the government.
More to be posted soon...
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