V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

13. X. 1921.

Comrade Gorbunov:

I request you, after proper consultation with the Chairman of the Minor Council of People’s Commissars (and after ascertaining the position from the secretaries), to have the procedure for summoning reporters (both to the Large and to the Minor Council of People’s Commissars) altered.

At present reporters receive a summons to a sitting in general and wait for hours.

This is an outrage and a scandal.

It is necessary to ensure that reporters are summoned for one definite hour.

With a double check by telephone as to whether reporters are needed, and which ones; with a proper arrangement of the business of a given sitting (items with reporters and items without reporters), it is possible and necessary to ensure that reporters do not wait more than 15 minutes.

I request you to work out such a procedure immediately, after carefully considering it, and to inform me of the decision on this matter, adopted through the Minor Council of People’s Commissars.

Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)