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MOSCOW, February 22 Meeting of the Federation Council, which ratified treaties with the DPR and LPR on Tuesday , will continue behind closed doors, a source in the staff of the Federation Council told RIA Novosti. «The meeting will be closed,» he said. Later, it was decided to open the meeting and broadcast it on the Internet. The source told RIA Novosti that the reasons for this are not known. «We were told that it would be open,» the agency's interlocutor said. On Monday, after an extraordinary large meeting of the Security Council, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the citizens of the Russian Federation, saying that he considers it necessary to make a decision immediately to recognize the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR, since those who embarked on the path of bloodshed, violence and lawlessness did not recognize and do not recognize any other solution to the conflict in the Donbass, except for the military one. Immediately after the address, the president in the Kremlin signed decrees on the recognition of the LPR and the DPR. recognition of the LPR and DNRPosted by Vladimir Lavrentiev