OREANDA-NEWS. May 13, 2009. The situation in the banking sector was the subject of discussion.

Mr Medvedev said that the state will play a more active part in topping up banks’ capitalization, and instructed the Government to draw up the necessary legislation for this.

The President also called for a steady increase in lending to the industrial and manufacturing sector as well as to individuals and greater access to credit resources.

Taking part in the meeting were First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, Deputy Prime Minister and Government Chief of Staff Sergei Sobyanin, Presidential Aide Arkady Dvorkovich, Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina, Chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Ignatiev, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Ulyukayev, Director of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate Ilya Lomakin-Rumyantsev, and the heads of Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank), Sberbank, VTB Bank, Russian Agricultural Bank (Rosselkhozbank) and Gazprombank.