Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia Valentina Matviyenko (center) and Governor of the Lipetsk Region Igor Artamonov (second from right) before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Zimbabwe Mabel Chinomona (center) and Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia Konstantin Kosachev (right) before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Oleg Belozerov, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Russian Railways (left), before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Zimbabwe Mabel Chinomona (left), representative in the Russian Federation Council from the executive body of state power of the Tver region Lyudmila Skakovskaya (second from right) and deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev (right) before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Genre photography. Hall in the building of the Federation Council of Russia with portraits of senators.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Genre photography. Hall of the building of the Federation Council of Russia.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Oleg Belozerov, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Russian Railways (center), before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Genre photography. Hall in the building of the Federation Council of Russia with portraits of senators.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia Valentina Matviyenko before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. From left to right: Grigory Karasin, representative in the Russian Federation Council from the executive body of the state power of the Sakhalin Region, Vladimir Chizhov, representative from the executive body of the Republic of Karelia, and Taimuraz Mamsurov, representative from the executive power of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Genre photography. Food products produced in the Lipetsk region, presented as part of the "Hour of the subject", before the start of the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Andrei Denisov (left), representative in the Russian Federation Council from the executive body of state power of the Saratov Region, and Vadim Dengin (right), representative to the Russian Federation Council from the executive body of state power of the Bryansk Region, before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Sergei Perminov, representative of the executive body of state power of the Leningrad Region, before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Oleg Belozerov, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Russian Railways (right), before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Tatyana Sakharova (left), representative of the legislative (representative) body of government of the Murmansk Region, in the Federation Council of Russia before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Genre photography. Preparing for the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Representative of the legislative (representative) body of state power of the Tyumen region Dmitry Goritsky (left) before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Chief of Staff of the Federation Council of Russia Gennady Golov (left) and head of the Information and Analytical Department of the Staff of the Federation Council of Russia Andrei Petrov (right) before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Alexander Shenderyuk-Zhidkov, representative in the Federation Council of Russia from the executive body of state power of the Kaliningrad Region, before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Suleiman Geremeev, representative in the Federation Council of Russia from the executive body of state power of the Chechen Republic, before the meeting.

Plenary session of the Federation Council of Russia. Representative in the Federation Council of Russia from the legislative (representative) body of state power of the Kaluga Region Alexander Savin before the meeting.