Kremlin denies reports on strengthening of Russia's Security Council
The Kremlin chief of staff, Sergei Naryshkin, denied on Saturday reports that Russia’s Security Council would be reformed and its powers increased.Reports in the Russian media on Friday said that a bill, supposedly to be submitted to the State Duma this fall, would give the Security Council the power to issue instructions to the government and to assume the functions of the presidential administration in personnel policy. Full Story