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The mechanisms of infrastructure budget and special treasury loans are designed to improve the quality of life of citizens and change the appearance of settlements for the better. During their operation, more than 720 objects and events have been completed in 71 regions of Russia using budget loans. This was reported by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.

"The budget loan program, which has been used in Russia since 2022, allows regions to update transport, utilities and social infrastructure. Thanks to favorable conditions – a low rate of 3% and a long loan term (15 years) – the subjects get the opportunity to implement projects that are important for citizens without a heavy debt burden. IBC and SKK help not only to create modern roads, housing and communal services facilities, hospitals and kindergartens, but also to develop regions as a whole. In total, 723 facilities and events important for residents in 71 regions have been completed with the involvement of IBC and SKK funds. In addition, 8,152 units of public transport have been updated. This year, work on infrastructure development will continue both on previously planned facilities within the framework of IBC and SKK, and with the involvement of treasury infrastructure loans," said Marat Khusnullin.

The Deputy Prime Minister noted that, thanks to the work performed, budget loans since 2022 have contributed to attracting over 3.7 trillion rubles of extra-budgetary investments to the regions, creating 44 thousand jobs, and commissioning 32.9 million square meters of housing. Among the leading regions are the Republic of Tatarstan (3.88 million square meters), St. Petersburg (3.43 million square meters), and Sverdlovsk Oblast (2.54 million square meters).

"Much attention is paid to the modernization of housing and communal infrastructure facilities. Since 2022, thanks to the budget loan program, 398 housing and communal facilities have been commissioned, as well as more than 1,440 km of utility networks. The country's road infrastructure is also being updated. 514 km of roads have already been built and repaired – these are both major highways and street and road networks in residential areas," emphasized First Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services Alexander Lomakin.

Among the completed projects, for example, is the Western Chord road from A-280 Rostov-on-Don – Taganrog to the bridge over the Don River on the Western Bypass with a total length of 10.6 km, a school complex for 1.2 thousand students with an additional education block in Yekaterinburg, and many others.

"Within the framework of the IBC program, work continues on 476 objects and events in 76 regions, and within the SKK program, on 239 objects and events in 40 regions. Among them are the design and construction of the Chirkey-Makhachkala-Kaspiysk main water pipeline in the Republic of Dagestan, the reconstruction of the Apatity-Kirovsk highway in the Murmansk region, and the reconstruction of sewage treatment facilities in the Moscow region. In addition, another 174 new buses, trolleybuses, trams, and MCD trains are planned for delivery to Moscow, the Vologda, Tambov, and Chelyabinsk regions," said Vasily Kupyzin, General Director of the Territorial Development Fund.

The Ministry of Construction is the curator of the budget loan program, and the operator is the Territorial Development Fund.

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The Mashuk Knowledge Center, located in Pyatigorsk, celebrates its third anniversary on August 20. During this time, it has become a key federal platform for training teachers, mentors, lecturers, managers, parents and representatives of youth communities. The center's original programs are especially popular with the audience, breaking records for the number of applications from participants. The flagships in this area are the educational intensives "Pedagogical Council", "Parents' Academy" and "Curatorship Academy".

"The day before, in his greeting to the participants of the All-Russian Pedagogical Congress, our President Vladimir Putin noted that it is important to surround teachers and lecturers with the attention they deserve. A number of measures of the national project "Youth and Children" are aimed at supporting them and developing the education system. One of the significant areas is the work of the Mashuk Knowledge Center. Over three years, its team has organized more than 370 educational programs in popular areas of training. They were attended by more than 45 thousand students from 89 regions of Russia and 52 countries. I wish the Mashuk center to continue its dynamic development, attract more and more participants and implement projects for the benefit of domestic education," emphasized Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

The work of the Mashuk Knowledge Center began within the framework of the national project “Education”, and is now being developed within the framework of the national project “Youth and Children”.

The Mashuk team is actively implementing the task set by Russian President Vladimir Putin to prepare a new personnel reserve for the education system. In 2024, the Knowledge Center launched the first stream of the higher personnel reserve program for the education system together with the Higher School of Public Administration of the Presidential Academy with the support of the Ministry of Education. Its graduates included 70 participants, including winners of all-Russian professional competitions, honored teachers, and school principals. They developed eight unique projects that passed the expert evaluation of the Ministry of Education. The flagship program made it possible to comprehensively prepare current managers for the existing changes in the education system and create new social elevators. As a result, three participants received promising career offers from federal and regional authorities.

Today, the Knowledge Center combines work in two main areas – training senior officials of the education and enlightenment system and training school principals. The author's program "Director at Height" united 100 heads of educational institutions from 74 regions of the country. The participants have already passed the equator and achieved specific results, which will form the basis for a large-scale study to create a competency profile of a modern school principal. Its team "Mashuka" is implementing in partnership with the Russian Academy of Education.

"In three years, the Knowledge Center has become a unique educational space for the pedagogical community of Russia and other countries. Together with our colleagues from Mashuk, we are implementing a program for the highest personnel reserve, the second stream of which will start in October 2025. Next year, we have planned to launch another important international project – a program for directors of foreign schools. I am confident that the center's initiatives make a real contribution to the development of the education and enlightenment system of our country," said Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov.

Since September 2024, the Knowledge Center, by order of the President of Russia, has become a federal methodological center for the development of the mentoring institute. The Mashuk team pays special attention to this area, forming a base of best practices for their further analysis and dissemination. Over three years, the center has conducted more than 150 original and partner mentoring programs. Participants had the opportunity to get acquainted with advanced approaches in this area and methodological developments, including the original mentoring model "Beshtau", "Map of the Mentor's Activity", materials "Seven Styles of Mentoring" and "Mentoring as a Management Style". Today, the Mashuk team is developing recommendations for organizers of the mentoring system in secondary and higher educational institutions and a workbook for mentees.

"The Knowledge Center makes a great contribution to the education of the younger generation who love their country and share our traditional values. Over three years of work, the Mashuk team has united more than a thousand leading experts, and the most relevant mentoring practices have been developed here. As an interdepartmental corporate university, the Knowledge Center creates conditions for the exchange of experience and effective interaction between federal and regional authorities. One of our outstanding joint projects is the "Conductors of Meanings" program for training a new generation of leaders and forming unified approaches to the implementation of youth policy. I am sure that together with our friends and partners we will implement many more initiatives that will find a response among young people," said Grigory Gurov, Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.

The Knowledge Center continues to expand its range of educational products and geographic presence. Over three years, the center has held more than 35 events in the format of "Visiting Mashuk", organizing programs dedicated to a specific thematic area at the request of the regions. Similar events will be held in Kamchatka and Vladivostok in late summer and autumn 2025.

"The Mashuk Knowledge Center has become a place where new meanings and ideas are born that can change people's lives. It will not be an exaggeration if I say that a community of like-minded people is being formed here, ready to take responsibility for the development and education of the younger generations, and therefore for the future of the country. Since 2022, tens of thousands of people have completed the educational programs of the Knowledge Center. We will continue to work on scaling its activities so that as many people as possible can take advantage of the opportunities of the educational platform. I am sure that Mashuk has many bright projects and significant achievements ahead for the benefit of society and the state," emphasized Maxim Dreval, General Director of the Russian Society "Knowledge".

The Mashuk team helps partner regions implement similar personnel programs "Time of Heroes" for demobilized participants of the SVO. In September 2025, more than 200 representatives of the Arkhangelsk Region, the Lugansk People's Republic, and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug will visit the visiting educational modules in Pyatigorsk for the first time.

"Since its opening, the Knowledge Center has been the flagship for training educational and management personnel who are capable of effectively responding to modern challenges, integrating advanced technologies into the educational process, and raising a new generation of leaders. A professional community of graduates has been created on the basis of the center, which unites more than 45 thousand people. "Mashuk devotees" actively apply the practices and methods they received from us in their home regions to create a developing educational environment. In honor of the third anniversary, we are taking a new big step by launching the "Digital Mashuk" platform. This is our gift to those who cannot attend face-to-face educational programs in Pyatigorsk. By the end of 2025, about 30 thousand students will be able to undergo retraining online. I am sure that thanks to the efforts of the team and the support of partners, we will be able to expand the audience and implement many more exciting projects," said Anton Serikov, General Director of the Mashuk Knowledge Center, Deputy General Director of the Russian Knowledge Society.

The Knowledge Center is actively working on the tasks of the Caucasian macroregion. The Center trains teachers, mentors, and managers for the North Caucasian Federal District, and develops a community of Caucasian scholars to collect comprehensive analytics. The Mashuk team is working to promote information that popularizes the district from the point of view of tourism, recreation, agriculture, development of traditional crafts, as an example of ethnocultural diversity and cohabitation of representatives of different nationalities. All this information is “packed,” including in a game form. In the spring of 2025, the Mashuk team released the board game “Heart of the Caucasus,” which was developed jointly with experts and program participants.

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The results of the company's work over the past period were discussed, as well as current activities, including the development of the federal road network within the framework of the national project "Infrastructure for Life", and issues of training personnel for the industry.

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M. Mishustin: Dear Vyacheslav Petrovich!

You are the head of a state company in the field of road construction, which is an indicator of the state of the economy in general and significantly affects related industries. The area of direct responsibility of your company is the implementation of infrastructure projects that are significant for the country. One of such flagships that your organization is working on is the M-12 "Vostok" highway. I know that this work is actively underway.

The President has set us the task of increasing the share of federal highways and roads in the country's backbone network to 85% within six years. And this work has been continuing since this year within the framework of the national project "Infrastructure for Life".

What are the results of the first half of the year and how are things going in general?

V. Petushenko: Dear Mikhail Vladimirovich!

Over the previous years, namely over the 16 years of our company's existence, the road network that we have built has increased by 2.5 times. And, probably, the main result is that due to the attraction of extra-budgetary financing – and this is more than a trillion rubles – more than 3 thousand km of new roads have been built, which are part of the core network of federal roads, and high-speed ones at that. At the same time, we are forming a framework: north – south, west – east. And the most important thing is, of course, the "Russia" route from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.

You launched the construction of the M-12 highway in July 2020. Today, the construction task to Kazan has been completed, and we will have completed it in 2023.

The key moment of this year and the construction of the M-12 highway in general today is the delivery of a 275-kilometer section in Bashkiria, Perm Krai and Sverdlovsk Oblast (opened with the participation of the President), which made it possible to reduce travel time for trucks by almost 4 hours, and for cars – by 6 hours.

The main effect is that starting in 2022, we have seen an increase in traffic every year. This year, the growth in trucks is 9%, and freight turnover is constantly growing. We see that the number of trucks is growing every day. This once again shows that the route chosen in 2020 has brought a very great result.

I can say that 45% of this facility was built using off-budget financing. In particular, these were funds from the National Welfare Fund and a bond loan from a state company, which is currently being serviced.

And it is very important that we were able to reduce the construction time due to technical solutions, due to organizational issues. And we took steps that allowed us not to increase its cost. Here is Dyurtyuli – Achit: I can say that if we had built it according to the classical scheme, we would have had to bring about 12 million cubic meters of sand there, but we built everything from local soils – of course, with modern technologies – and saved, according to our estimates, up to 58 billion rubles.

In addition, we have already completely replaced the cable-stayed system technologies on the section from Moscow to Kazan. And we built a magnificent bridge across the Oka. Together with Severstal, together with the scientific community, we completely replaced the cable-stayed system. Technologies associated with continuous concreting allowed us to reduce construction time.

I must say that our technologies are developing. For example, all asphalt concrete mix is now produced at domestic plants. We have moved away from any dependence.

M. Mishustin: It is very important not to slow down the pace of work. It is necessary to complete all planned projects on time. It is obvious that this is actually a catalyst for economic growth and tourism development. New highways, of course, must be convenient, comfortable for travel, for passengers and meet all modern requirements for road safety. I ask you to keep these issues under control.

Another question. Not a single large-scale project can be implemented without a sufficient number of qualified personnel. These are not only workers who participate in this, because road construction is a very complex matter. This is also a large number of scientists, engineers, designers, technologists.

How do you work with personnel? Do the programs "Professionality", "Strategy-2030", the program of advanced engineering schools help you here?

V. Petushenko: It is, of course, impossible to build high-quality roads today and increase labor productivity without professional, trained specialists.

We have been working on this program for several years now. We are working quite actively in several universities, our specialists give lectures. And we have gone even further – in order to provide career guidance to the children, we are starting to work with schoolchildren. This year we are opening a class at RUT (MIIT) in order to prepare professional specialists at this stage. This year we are opening a special admission with the opportunity to work in the state company "Avtodor" in several universities.

We understand that this is one of the most important tasks. We communicate with the Znanie society and with professional communities and hold competitions. We have young people from 24 regions of the country who took part in competitions. The winners come to our facilities from new regions, not only from the central ones. We are expanding our geography. The guys come to our facilities – to the southern facilities, to the east of the country. I conduct professional training with them myself, I give lectures myself, we communicate with them, attract guys from an early age, arousing interest in our profession.

In terms of blue-collar jobs, this year we will hold the third professional skills competition. Moreover, it has already become international. Last year we had specialists from Kazakhstan, Belarus, China. This year we are expanding both the geography and the composition of the participants: these are young specialists and experienced ones. The profession needs to be promoted and its best qualities demonstrated.

M. Mishustin: Vyacheslav Petrovich, it is very important to attract young people to your industry. It is interesting. You can not only earn high salaries, but also see the whole country. And most importantly, make a great contribution to the development of the economy of our beautiful, wonderful Russia.

Good luck!

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Order dated August 14, 2025 No. 2207-r

The government has approved an action plan for the implementation of the Concept of the state system for combating crimes committed using information and communication technologies. The corresponding order has been signed.

The document includes a set of measures to improve legislation, technical counteraction to intruders and increase the digital literacy of the population. Work on preparing anti-fraud measures is carried out under the supervision of Deputy Prime Minister – Head of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko.

"The government is systematically strengthening measures to protect citizens from fraudsters. A set of 30 priority measures has already been adopted and is being implemented, and a law on criminal liability for droppers has come into force. The approved plan is another step in creating an effective system to combat telephone and Internet fraudsters. It synchronizes the work of all departments to achieve a common goal – the formation of a comfortable and safe digital environment," said Dmitry Grigorenko.

The key areas of the plan include improving legislation and interdepartmental cooperation. In particular, the issue of establishing the obligation of telecom operators, Internet providers, information dissemination organizers and other structures to notify law enforcement agencies of cases of identifying signs of crimes committed using digital technologies will be worked out. This work will be carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Digital Development, the FSB and Roskomnadzor in cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee. Based on its results, in the third quarter of 2027, the Government may come up with an initiative to change the current legislation.

By the same date, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Economic Development, the FSB and Roskomnadzor, with the assistance of the Prosecutor General's Office, will submit proposals to increase liability for violating legislation in the field of personal data. Thus, it is proposed to increase the statute of limitations for bringing to administrative liability for such offenses.

The concept pays considerable attention to the prevention of offenses and crimes committed using Internet technologies. Activities related to this area are also presented in the plan for its implementation. The Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Bank of Russia are instructed to carry out activities on an ongoing basis to improve the digital and financial literacy of citizens, their awareness of the methods of committing crimes and protection against them. Such preventive measures include, among other things, the creation and placement of social advertising in the media. A separate area of work is the prevention of the involvement of minors in "digital" crimes.

The creation of a depository of preventive materials will be a support for such activities. It may be formed as early as the second quarter of 2026. The Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Economic Development, Roskomnadzor, the Central Bank and a number of other departments have been determined responsible for this.

Another innovation related to prevention is the integration of the module for mandatory notification of citizens about possible crimes into the main mobile applications used for interaction with government agencies, as well as into banking and socially significant applications. The Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have been instructed to work out this issue by the first quarter of 2027.

The plan is not limited to prevention. Among the technical measures to combat fraudsters is the creation of a single register of addresses of electronic links to the official websites of popular online stores. This will make it possible to increase the effectiveness of the fight against their electronic doubles, which fraudsters use to steal personal information. A single register may be created in the third quarter of 2026 through the efforts of the Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Federal Tax Service, Roskomnadzor and other government agencies.

Other measures to combat fraudsters technically include developing an algorithm to identify artificial intelligence technology when committing cybercrimes. The Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Roskomnadzor will be looking for such solutions. Completion of the work is scheduled for the first quarter of 2028.

The concept of a state system for combating crimes committed using information and communication technologies was approved in December 2024. This decision was made in accordance with the Presidential Decree on national development goals.

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