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Tatyana Golikova spoke at the final meeting of the Ministry of Labor at the National Center "Russia."
Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova spoke at the final meeting of the board of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection at the National Center "Russia."
"For several years now, our country has been operating under difficult conditions of severe sanctions and restrictions. But despite all these challenges, the social sector, represented here today at the National Center 'Russia,' by the Ministry of Labor, the Social Fund, Rostrud, the medical and social expertise agency, federal agencies, and regional ministries, is fulfilling its assigned tasks with dignity, ensuring the state's social obligations are met," said Tatyana Golikova.
The Deputy Prime Minister noted that Russia is increasingly focusing on large families: both their size and the number of children in them are growing. Last year, the number of large families increased by 10.6% to over 2.9 million, while the number of children in large families increased by 590,000 to 9.5 million.
According to her, extensive efforts have prevented a significant decline in the birth rate. Eighteen regions, including those that previously showed negative trends, have seen increases. These include the city of Sevastopol, Mordovia, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Leningrad, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, and Ryazan regions, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Adygea, Karachay-Cherkessia, and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
She added that demographic issues are inextricably linked to family incomes. "Wage growth, employment-focused measures, and targeted support measures have contributed to a reduction in poverty. By the end of 2025, the poverty rate was 6.7%, a decrease of 0.4 percentage points compared to 2024," said Tatyana Golikova.
Particular attention is being paid to systemic measures within the framework of national projects and strategies. Last year, the country launched the implementation of new national projects—"Family" and "Personnel"—as well as two key strategic documents: the Action Strategy for the Implementation of Family and Demographic Policy and Support for Large Families and the Action Strategy for Senior Citizens. These initiatives are designed to create a comprehensive system of support for Russian families at different stages of the life cycle and strengthen the country's demographic potential.
Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov spoke about the initial results of the national projects and the mechanisms for implementing the state's priority tasks. He also shared plans for 2026.
"It has already become a tradition to meet here at the National Center 'Russia' to review our work over the year and discuss the challenges ahead. The past year was marked by a number of significant events: at the President's initiative, the new national projects 'Family' and 'Personnel' were launched, as the Prime Minister mentioned in his welcoming remarks today. The national project 'Family' brings together all the popular support measures for families with children—maternity capital, family mortgages, childbirth payments, a unified allowance, and a new family tax payment, which we will be working on this year. For the first time, support for large families has been identified as a separate project. The development of regional demographic programs has become a separate focus," said Anton Kotyakov.
He also added that the national "Personnel" project provided the foundation for long-term labor market management. It combined both management tools and direct support measures for job seekers and employers. Last year, its performance exceeded 98%.
As Anton Kotyakov noted, unemployment has reached a historically low level of 2.2%. He noted that, according to Rosstat, average wages increased by 13.5%, while real wages, that is, wages adjusted for inflation, increased by 4.4%.
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