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The President suggested taking a close look at “what is happening with the biggest recent affairs.” “Investigations drag on for months or years, and then the court hearings also go on for months or years,” Mr Putin said. “This creates the impression that the state does not react or cannot react to these kinds of events.”

Mr Putin noted that, as in any normal rule of law state, Russia has legislative, executive and judicial branches of power, each of which is responsible not just for the abstract fate of the state itself, but also for the concrete lives of the hundreds and thousands of people who are its citizens.

The President called for steps to fight this negligent attitude that makes it easier for criminals and terrorists to commit their crimes, and said that something must be done within the current legislative framework to make the state’s work more effective and more in line with the real situations the country faces at the moment.