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Yuri Borisov has been dismissed from his post as Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities

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Dmitry Bakanov has been appointed Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities

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Following the ceremony, Vladimir Putin spoke with the young scientists who won the Presidential Prizes

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Vladimir Putin held a videoconference meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education, which focused on ways to ensure the priority areas of Russia's scientific and technological development possess a sufficient number of trained engineers

Some of the key points of the President's address:

🔸In terms of its technological development, Russia must be competitive in all the key areas. To achieve that, the country needs specialists who are capable of providing unique solutions, including in new, emerging industries, and are prepared to use advanced methods in design and engineering.

🔸The training of such professionals is a crucial challenge for all levels of education, so it is important that the entire education community contributes to taking it on. It is imperative that best practices are exchanged on a consistent basis. That means, first and foremost, that a unified, end-to-end system must be created for training technical personnel, spanning their formative years from secondary school all the way to university.

🔸In terms of expertise, groundwork must be prepared years in advance, so that today's schoolchildren, university students and postgraduates are ready to face the challenges of the time in 15–20 years. This objective must be specified when developing a new Strategy for the Development of Education until 2040.

🔸Math and sciences curricula must receive a comprehensive update to balance the content volume and make it more accessible and, most importantly, more engaging for schoolchildren.

🔸This year marks the end of the experimental phase of the Professionalitet project, which is being implemented since 2022 on the basis of close cooperation between educational institutions and companies in key economic sectors. This organisational model for secondary vocational education involving the participation of businesses must be enshrined in law.

🔸Taking into account the goal of providing rapid technological development, it is necessary to reconsider the curricula content, the very framework of education, and the volume and structure for manpower training, including training of engineers. All the policies guiding the distribution of what is known as admission targets must be arranged shortly and introduced in specific educational institutions.

🔸The entire structural arrangement of higher education is also in need of some adjustments. The share of practice-oriented training in modern design and engineering tools already in use by specific companies must be increased. Conversely, outdated courses and curricula, which do not meet the needs of the economy, should be phased out.

🔸Individual curricula must be introduced for students who are already employed in their field. Additionally, hybrid attendance modes, that nevertheless should not make the education level any less thorough, should be implemented for them.

🔸As for developing the new regulatory framework for Russia's higher education, the proposal is to make provisions for stage-by-stage professional education, meaning that after graduating at a certain level, a student would have the right to pass an examination and then start working if they wish, while having the opportunity to continue their studies and complete a basic or specialised higher education course at a later date.

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Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who made a report on the country's economic development

The prime minister said Russia's GDP grew by 4.1 percent in 2024, reaching 200 trillion rubles, which is an all-time high.

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The President discussed the development of the Kaliningrad Region with permanent members of the Security Council

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The President signed Executive Order on the Early Termination of the Mandate of Novgorod Region Governor Andrei Nikitin
Vladimir Putin has approved a list of instructions following the December 10, 2024 meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights

In particular, the President has instructed:

🔹the Government to consider establishing a single reduced medical insurance deduction rate for socially-oriented NPOs on a permanent basis, as well as exempting transactions of food and other goods to charitable organisations from value-added tax;

🔹the Government, in cooperation with the interdepartmental working group on developing the education system, the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, and the State Duma, to organise a discussion involving both the professional community and parent associations to consider introducing an integrated grade point average assessing students' mastery of basic primary and secondary general education curricula, including the issue of accounting for this GPA in the professional education institutions admission process, and establishing a conduct grade in general education institutions;

🔹the Government, together with the Prosecutor General's Office, to take steps to ensure military personnel, law enforcement officers, military and law enforcement retirees, those who perform their military duty in the special military operation or counter-terrorist operation zones, as well as their families, preserve the right to use official residential premises;

🔹the Government, together with the FSB and the Interior Ministry, to put together additional measures to block telephone calls made from the territory of Ukraine and other unfriendly states with criminal intent, and submit proposals on increasing the level and identification of phone numbers used by public authorities;

🔹the Defence Ministry, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, the Finance Ministry, the Health Ministry, the FSB, the Defenders of the Fatherland State Foundation to Support Participants in the Special Military Operation, and the Committee of the Fatherland Warriors' Families (CFWF) autonomous public organisation, to consider introducing the mandatory genomic registration for military personnel, as well as civilians assigned tasks as part of the special military operation;

🔹the Health Ministry to submit proposals on improving access to the Russian market for innovative foreign-made pharmaceuticals, and to include representatives of patient associations in the Health Ministry commission for the formation of lists of drugs for use in healthcare and the minimal range of drugs required for providing healthcare.

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Vladimir Putin met with Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin at the Kremlin

The head of the DPR briefed the President on the social and economic development of the region. In particular:

🔹the Republic's revenue grew by 28.4 percent in 2024 compared to 2023;
🔹a perinatal centre opened in Donetsk, while in Mariupol, a region-level vascular health centre was put into operation;
🔹10 first-aid stations have been built in the region, with 18 more to open this year;
🔹64 compensatory blocks of flats containing 4,789 flats have already been put in operation, with 71 blocks of flats to be put in service in total;
🔹the budget for secondary and pre-school education will be increased by 5,2 billion rubles to amount to 34 billon rubles.

Other issues discussed included water supply in the region, housing restoration and construction in the Donetsk-Makeyevka agglomeration, and efforts by the interdepartmental commission for the enforcement of labour, pension, and social rights of certain categories of persons.

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