decisions were supported by grants for domestic it projects, information technology projects, the register of russian software was replenished with almost 5 thousand items in just a year, the share of their use in state-owned companies has also tripled, just recently 5 years ago it barely exceeded a quarter, no later than december on behalf of the president on a separate class of software, such organizations must, by the way, completely switch to... products, we

keep these issues under constant attention. dear colleagues, for building up own competencies in critical industries, we have a strong scientific foundation with infrastructure throughout the country. as the head of state noted, this is our powerful competitive advantage. there are about 600 centers for the collective use of equipment and about 400 unique installations at... which carry out, among other things, fundamental and applied research, you know, the development of seven mega science class projects also continues, approximately half of the instrument base of leading scientific organizations has been updated, higher over 700 laboratories under the leadership of our young scientists, our color, our science. we managed to ensure that now, of the total number of researchers, almost half of those who are under 39 years old. this is a very serious

achievement, and we are increasing cooperation between higher education institutions of science and the real sector in 15 world-class research and educational centers. in 2 years, we have developed about 400 technologies, they are already ready for implementation. all these areas are reflected, by the way, in the strategy of scientific and technological development of russia, which was approved by the president. to achieve technological sovereignty, our economy must become... an economy of qualified personnel, and we have revised approaches to education in colleges so that the knowledge that is taught there and received by over 3,700,000 students today is maximally consistent with the demands of the labor market, for this first of all , we are modernizing the material and technical base, and not only at the expense of the federal budget, by the way, the regions independently created for themselves last year more than a thousand workshops in more than four in four... too hundreds

of educational organizations, well, how are we and as a result of this, almost all graduates , after completing their studies, get jobs in almost all fields, professionalism is in great demand, it covers about 900 colleges, in russian regions there are more than two hundreds of centers that produce specialists for more than twenty priority industries. by the way, the importance of this was discussed during visits to production facilities in the regions, and governors constantly talk to me about this. last year we created 60 more educational clusters that train employees in the field of medicine, teaching, tourism, and the arts of the creative industry. and our company is actively investing significant amounts in such a project, about 4 billion rubles. knowing that this is their future. and by the way, dear valentin ivanov, dear ones. you

pay the most serious attention to the issues of training workers; it was thanks to your support that the funding for the project provided for in the three-year budget was increased. last year was already the second in the decade of science and technology, which carried out on the initiative of the president. we are increasingly attracting talented young people to research in higher education, and scientists to solving key problems of the country’s development. this is also helped by the implementation of the priority 2030 project, on its basis universities, mainly regional ones, together with academic centers with large companies, are conducting fundamental and applied research, including introductory materials, microbiology, medicine, quantum physics, i can do this endlessly list. 3 years ago we started the program with 160 universities, now there are 132 are already participating and... excuse me,

i said the wrong thing, with 106, we started the program with 106 universities, now there are already 132, about 2000 have been completed

. the key directions here are ensuring macroeconomic stability, the sustainability of balancing our budget, increasing our own instruments of long-term resources , increasing investor confidence in the russian market, resuming the influx of foreign capital, new tools have appeared, including those that allow attracting finance for a long period. just recently you adopted the developed edit. the law that determines the procedure for tax deductions for such investments, this, of course, should increase the interest of domestic investors, on whose activity we are counting. the most important thing is that today all payments in russia work, despite any external pressure. colleagues,

of course, you all know, you see that the west continues to do everything possible to limit the russian economy’s access to international settlement and payment systems. structure, and, of course, global finance, as a result, restrain the development of our country. the bank of russia is actively working to solve this problem, and the government, for its part, is providing comprehensive support here, together we are working to ensure that both the trade and investment operations of our companies are protected. the sixth priority task is to expand foreign economic cooperation with promising partners from friendly countries. first of all, i would like to note that. managed to stop western attempts to organize a blockade of russian foreign trade. trade turnover with friendly countries has not only increased, but today comparable to the volume of trade between russia and the whole world, which was 4 years ago. on instructions

from the president, the government approved a strategy for the development of foreign economic activity and it, of course, takes into account all modern trends in the global economy, calculated until the end of the decade. a support system was established for raw materials, non-energy exports, and industrial agricultural products; they helped entrepreneurs redirect cargo flows; the decrease in trade turnover with the european union, of course, was largely compensated by increased trade and with china, with india, with turkey, with belarus, with kazakhstan, with the united arab emirates, with africa, with latin america, and the share of friendly countries has grown to... 77%. and of course, in this regard, it is necessary to solve the problems of developing international corridors to these friendly countries, this includes north-south, west-east, and also to create infrastructure, including port infrastructure in the azov-black sea, northwestern,

eastern directions. well, last year we launched road bypasses in the cities of anapa, aksai, krasnodar, which helped speed up movement on the most. busy section of the m4 don highway, in accordance with the instructions of the president, we continued to expand the eastern railway range, its capacity reached 173 million tons, and special attention was paid to increasing the capabilities of the northern sea route, the shortest route between europe and asia across the waters of the arctic region, over 36 people were transported in a year

, people died, i am sure that the perpetrators will be punished, i share your desire for retribution when it comes to terrorists, with understanding i agree with the numerous proposals for...

our closest neighbor, our ally, is belarus. together we are building a union state, we have laid the legal basis for a unified macroeconomic, industrial and agricultural policy, for the formation of common energy and energy transport markets. we have agreed on uniform standards for consumer protection. our eurasian economic union is developing successfully. its total, real ox internal. the product grew by 3.8% last year. in the twenty-third year, russia's chairmanship

in the bodies of the union, at the level of heads of state, a declaration was approved, you know, on the development of integration for the future, it was called the eurasian economic path, it is a guideline for further strengthening strategic interaction in all areas. our country is expanding cooperation with participants. commonwealth and independence of states; by the way, our russian trade turnover with them grew by almost 6% last year. russia has maintained and strengthened its presence in key regional associations, but this is primarily brix, in which our country chairs this year, the sco, we also plan to deepen the dialogue with other constructively minded organizations, including within the framework of the humanitarian agenda in education, science, culture, and here an important area is sports. well, unfortunately, the international olympic committee and other sports

organizations are under serious political pressure, preventing the participation of russian athletes in world and european competitions, in this situation we are actively developing new competition formats, we hold games of the cis countries, russian-chinese games, games, children of asia in yekaterinburg there was a festival of student sports, the most. the highlight, of course, was the games of the future, a unique multi-sport tournament, which, as the president noted, is free from political considerations, from any kind of discrimination and from double standards. much is planned for this year, including the friendship games, we will continue to create conditions so that our athletes can show their best results in competitions with worthy opponents. dear colleagues, the decisions made, which i spoke about earlier, have ensured serious successes in general in a number of sectors of the economy,

and most importantly, these achievements have become part of the everyday life of people, from kaliningrad to vladivostok, issues of the development of russian regions are constantly on the government’s agenda. last year, together with my deputies and other members of the cabinet of ministers, we visited all regions of the country. since 2020, i myself have visited fifty, or five of them. we have. very beautiful country, there is a lot to see, and the people are wonderful, with all their hearts, they support their native places, they work actively, and of course, there is progress, over 4 years the consolidated revenues of the regional budgets have grown by 50%, the volume of investments has increased by almost 2/3, these are the main parameters by which we we evaluate our work with subjects, my deputies are responsible for four indicators for each. this is the growth of domestic, domestic regional product, the number of jobs,

investments, real income, job creation . this is, in fact, what we we constantly monitor. by the way, on the initiative of valentina ivanevna matvienko and vecheslav igevich volodin, the mechanism for transferring income tax to regional budgets was improved, funds began to flow into them much faster, this will ensure additional stability of the financial systems of our subjects. at the same time, many of them carry a serious debt load. by order of the president, we will write off 2/3 of their debt on budget loans, which is about 1 trillion rubles. this opens up possibilities for solutions local infrastructure tasks, including construction, updating utility networks, gasification, laying transport highways, and all the most important issues that are on the agenda of our regions. the most popular instrument is infrastructure budget loans; 1 trillion

rubles have been allocated for them over 6 years. more than half of the funds have already been sent to the subjects, which helped complete the project. work on 252 sites, provided another 90, excuse me, 190 billion rubles within the framework of special treasury loans that almost all regions received last year. we also allocate resources to equalize their level of provision. and , of course, special economic zones remain a fairly effective support mechanism. over the past 3 years, 20 more of these have appeared. uh territories, and preferential conditions helped them attract a record amount of investment. of course, we will definitely link all instruments of infrastructure support with development programs for 2,000 settlements and master plans for 200 cities, which the president spoke about in detail in his message. soon we will decide the time together with the regions. this

work - we organize within eight federal districts - continues to operate effectively. i repeat once again, the institute of their curators, from among my deputies, each of them controls everything that is being done in the regions today in the four areas in which i said, there are corresponding results everywhere, and comprehensive development of rural areas is underway, only last year about 60 rubles were allocated from the federal budget, which made it possible to continue construction of roads, transfer of improvement works, improve living conditions in the countryside, the most important initiative for the subjects, free social gasification, during its implementation we paid special attention to supporting large families, participants in a special military operation, their relatives,

people with low incomes, helped them with purchasing equipment, taking on part of the costs.

facilities significantly increased the reliability of the energy complex in the caucasus; by the way, a year ago, during a working trip to karachay-cherkessia, we launched krasnogorsk hydroelectric complex with two small hydroelectric power stations, a wind power station opened in the stavropol region in the fall, there are significant results in the far east, recently, with the use of government support, implementation of about.

almost 3 years ago, following a trip, i think, to iturup, we decided to provide preferential treatment for entrepreneurs on the kuril islands. already 24 residents, probably not a lot, but already 24, have started new projects with a total investment of about 5 billion rubles. and create more than 400 jobs there. the mechanisms used in the territory also showed good dynamics. macroregion among them is the far eastern concession, a single presidential subsidy, and of course, the far eastern hectare, which made it possible to create about a thousand objects in 4 years. social engineering infrastructure, and over 120,000 people received land plots; now this is available, by the way, to residents of the arctic zone. another important

tool is the far eastern quarter. it will contribute to integrated development with taking into account modern standards of people's needs. the level of transport connectivity within the district is actively increasing. for 3 years at preferential rates, uniform. the far eastern airline transported more than 800 thousand people, i will separately dwell on the integration of new subjects of the federation in the russian legal field, this required the adoption of about 60 laws, i would like to thank valentina ivanov, vyacheslav viktorovich, colleagues, all deputies and senators for the enormous large-scale work done, seriously. seriously helped speed up these steps, experiences, practices gained in crimea, where just last year, by the way, over 60

social and transport engineering infrastructure facilities were built or repaired, including , by the way, 16 new kindergartens, schools, three sports complexes, all these changes are happening. they have kindergartens, schools, medical organizations, fire stations, philharmonic societies, libraries, engineering and utility networks, roads, i can go on and on, everything is new

infrastructure, a branch of the mfc has been deployed, where in a short time - residents of our new regions can draw up the necessary documents, including, of course, for social payments, which are so important, for pensions, for benefits, last year about 2.5 of them received million citizens. the territories of all four subjects have been made a free economic zone and investors who come there are offered, among other things , a program of preferential leasing of equipment, and we provide additional assistance to neighboring regions. on instructions from the president, we sent belgorod, bryansk, kursk regions, as well as the republic of crimea 1 billion rubles. the funds have now gone to grants for enterprises, we will use financing on preferential terms in these regions and...

we will introduce the government to the state duma, work to support both people and businesses in these regions will continue. dear colleagues, the most important task remained last year. was created by presidential decree so that our correctional council, which our defenders would continue to operate, had everything they needed, we significantly increased production, additionally involved hundreds of enterprises, research institutes , design bureaus, scientists and engineers who, who developed advanced models, increased the production of equipment, weapons, protective equipment, electronic warfare, sets of medical equipment for use, including in field conditions, in military equipment in many positions by times, in vehicles and

armored weapons three times, by means of defeat by seven times, in communications technology, radio electronic warfare and intelligence nine times. i would like to especially thank all the specialists who take an active part in the production of everything our heroes need... thank you, the defenders of the fatherland fund has been created to solve the social issues of the soldiers and their relatives. in each region, its employees help restore documents, obtain medicines, medical products, undergo vocational training and, if necessary, find employment.

special military operation has an advantage now when entering universities, support for our guys and their families is, of course, always the focus of the government’s attention, and of course, all decisions of the head of state that form the basis of this work will be implemented. dear colleagues, many of the measures that i spoke about today in preparation...

were prepared with your personal participation and we managed to soften the most difficult period of adaptation, form a solid foundation for further economic growth and, of course, to improve the quality of life of our citizens our country, fulfilling new tasks. in the message the president instructed to think through approaches to modernizing our fiscal system for a more equitable distribution of the tax burden towards those with high incomes, while at the same time reducing the burden on families with children, stimulating business, and investing in the development of the country. it is important to take into account every detail here, because the tax system should not only ensure the flow of resources to solve, including national and regional problems, it is designed to reduce inequality, and not only in society, but in the social and economic development of our subjects, take into account the level of income of citizens and...

companies, and this was especially noted in the message by the head of state, together with you, dear colleagues, dear deputies, we have to decide this, you know the interests well the needs of their voters, the processes that are taking place in the regions, the demands of business, public institutions, and the upcoming changes in the tax sphere must first of all work for the benefit of the people and the economy of our country. generally, dear friends, following a meeting of the council for strategic development of the national project in december, the head of state set tasks for the current twenty-fourth year, this is the strengthening of economic, technological and financial sovereignty, where we will pay special attention to meeting the growing domestic demand for goods and services, i will also say times, which are produced in

russia with friendly countries in cooperation. to increase the real incomes of citizens, the rapid renewal of infrastructure, and also the formation digital platform for management in the field of integrated socio-economic and spatial development of our settlements. all this is key to achieving national goals until 2030, but the main task set by the president, including for this year, remains national conservation. in the year of the family, announced.