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The meeting participants analysed the performance of public prosecutors’ offices in 2003 and discussed tasks aimed at facilitating judicial reform.

The President asked the public prosecutors’ offices to organise strict control over government officials’ actions. He stressed that the main task of legal control by the prosecutor was to ensure compliance with laws, especially when the matter concerned people’s current problems and interests.

People usually bring their complaints about violations of the law to public prosecutors’ offices. The main problems are violations of labour, housing, pension and migration legislation. Apartment buildings that are left without heat, water and electricity for weeks because of the authorities’ negligence, and not for objective reasons, cannot be ignored. This happens all too often, and the task is to ensure proper control over the authorities’ actions.

The expanded meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General’s Office was also attended by: State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Dmitry Medvedev, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Viktor Ivanov, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Valentin Stepankov, Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin, Chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev, Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court Veniamin Yakovlev, Director of the Federal Security Service Nikolai Patrushev, Acting Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Chairman of the State Committee for the Control of Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Viktor Cherkesov, Minister of Justice Yury Chaika, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, and Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Sergei Shoigu.