Story by Andrey Pertsev. )One source told Meduza that Belekhkova and Shigina were brought to the meeting by the administration’s Social Projects Directorate, which is headed by Sergei Novikov (a close colleague of Sergey Kiriyenko, who manages the Kremlin’s domestic policy. At the Kremlin meeting, she said that her son, a career soldier, was “on another assignment” when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and he was “very sorry to be absent from his homeland at that point