MOSCOW, August 2 Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said, that on Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin called her and asked her to convey words of gratitude to the senators for her professional work during the spring session.
«I am very pleased to announce: yesterday Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin — ed.) called, knowing that we were having a final meeting, and highly appreciated the results of the work of the Federation Council in the spring session, and also wanted to convey words of gratitude to the senators for their initiative, for attention to people, for your professionalism, which I do with pleasure,” she said, summing up the results of the spring session.