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The President not only insisted that all those responsible for the deaths of people be prosecuted, but also commissioned an exhaustive inquiry into the responsibility of local authorities for the conditions in this kind of social institutions.
The head of state ordered that a comprehensive audit of all homes for elderly persons in Russia be prepared immediately by Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoys to the Federal Districts, employees of federal departments and regional authorities.
The meeting was attended by the Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Naryshkin, Presidential Aide and Head of the Presidential Control Directorate Konstantin Chuychenko, Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova, and Minister for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu.
On January 31 a fire in the home for elderly persons in the village of Podyelsk in the Komi Republic killed 23 people.
February 5, 2009, The Kremlin, Moscow