OREANDA-NEWS  Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a regular meeting with members of the government via video link on Wednesday, January 11, the Kremlin's press service reported on Tuesday.

"The main topic of the meeting will be the discussion of social support measures for citizens in the new subjects of Russia. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova will make a report," the message reads. A number of current issues will also be considered, the Kremlin added.

The previous meeting in this format took place in mid-December last year, then the main topic was the discussion of a new stage of the reform of control and supervisory activities (the so-called administrative guillotine) and the improvement of licensing activities. At the same time, at the beginning of the event, Putin paid attention to the topic of the incidence of SARS and influenza. At the same time, the head of state announced that he had been vaccinated against the flu.