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Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Alexander Novak met with the leaders of the parties: Igor Dodon – Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova, Irina Vlah – “Heart of Moldova” and Vasile Tarlev – “Future of Moldova”. The parties discussed economic and energy cooperation between the two countries.

Alexander Novak noted Russia's desire to build good-neighborly relations, friendship and cooperation with Moldova, where more than 220 thousand Russian citizens live. At the same time, the Moldovan diaspora in the Russian Federation, according to various estimates, is from 300 thousand to 500 thousand people.

"Russia is committed to maintaining and developing centuries-old ties with the Republic of Moldova, continuing the dialogue with all constructively minded political forces of the republic that advocate strengthening Moldovan statehood, sovereignty, maintaining its neutral status and strengthening friendly relations with our country," said Alexander Novak at a meeting with representatives of the Socialist, Heart of Moldova and Future of Moldova parties.

In recent years, due to the policies of the current Moldovan authorities, economic relations between Russia and Moldova have significantly deteriorated. After Moldova signed the Association Agreement with the European Union in 2014, trade turnover between the two countries fell sharply. In 2015, trade turnover between Russia and Moldova had already fallen by 32%, and Russia's share in Moldova's exports had fallen from 70% to just over 3% in 15 years.

The Deputy Prime Minister added that Russia is always glad to see representatives of Moldova at various venues, be it congresses or exhibition events.

“We value and encourage the development of interregional ties between our countries, contacts between political parties, public associations and interdepartmental cooperation,” he concluded.

Alexander Novak also noted that the energy sector has always been an important component of cooperation between Moscow and Chisinau.

"Russia has always supplied gas to Moldova at a much more favorable price compared to the supplies that went to Europe. It is unclear why the Moldovan authorities are not satisfied with them," the Deputy Prime Minister added.

"The Moldovan authorities have refused direct contracts with Russian partners. Moreover, they have created practically unacceptable conditions for Moldovagaz to operate. We are sure that we need to return to direct dialogue, to direct supplies," said Igor Dodon, leader of the Socialist Party.

He noted that in 2020, Moldova bought gas from Russia for $148 per thousand cubic meters. According to the politician, this was the lowest price in the last 10-15 years.

"Of course, these were very favorable tariffs for the end consumer, for our economy and the competitiveness of our goods. With the arrival of the current government, we purchased Russian gas at $842. Tariffs also increased sevenfold," added Igor Dodon.

Alexander Novak emphasized that Russia is ready to return to friendly cooperation in the energy sector if the Moldovan side has such a desire.

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Priority services "life situations" were approved at a meeting of the subcommittee on improving the quality of public services under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister – Head of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko. They will become available on the public services portal within a year.

In total, 35 new "life situations" will appear in 2025 for both citizens and businesses. These are services for solving such issues as planning and having a child, formalizing guardianship and trusteeship, organizing children's leisure and separately – organizing children's recreation, caring for pets, entering college and technical school, the desire to become a volunteer, applying for a tax deduction, launching an IT company, undergoing a medical examination, supporting Russian citizens abroad and such difficult situations as the loss of a loved one, disability.

The list of “life situations” was formed on the basis of feedback from citizens, the results of the analysis of the quality of services provided, as well as research conducted in user testing laboratories.

With the help of the "life situations" services for citizens and businesses, the time it takes to receive government services, the number of visits to departments and documents that need to be provided are reduced. The concept is based on the unification of services to solve a specific issue of a person, when he does not have to receive all the services separately and look for where to go, and all the necessary services and reference information are collected in one place, on a special page of this "life situation" on the government services portal.

"The "life situations" services are a new stage in the evolution of public services. Once upon a time, people stood in lines at various departments, then it became possible to receive public services online. At the next stage, the state offered citizens to apply for services through a "single window" – at the MFC with paper applications and to "Gosuslugi" via the Internet. Now there are more than 1.6 thousand such services and services on the portal. To make it easier to navigate them, we are combining them according to the "life situations" principle – citizens solve their problems comprehensively, quickly and in one place," said Dmitry Grigorenko.

At the federal level, the “life situations” services are being implemented since 2023. Currently, 35 of them have been implemented. With the federal “life situations” services planned for launch, there will be 70 of them by the end of 2025.

Thanks to federal services, “life situations” on average:

The time to receive government services has been reduced by 35% (from 102 to 66 days); the number of required documents has been reduced by 29% (from 28 to 20 units); the need to visit departments has been reduced by 64% (from 14 to 5 visits).

At the same time, some "life situations" are available entirely online. Since 2024, regional "life situations" services have also been implemented. More than 150 of them have been launched so far. Work on implementing "life situations" services is being carried out within the framework of the federal project "State for People".

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On July 10, 2025, MGIK will celebrate its 95th anniversary.

Dear friends!

I sincerely congratulate you on the 95th anniversary of the Moscow State Institute of Culture.

All these decades he remained faithful to the best traditions of higher professional education.

Today, relying on solid experience, one of the oldest universities in the country trains choreographers, directors, actors, musical performers, specialists in the field of mass media, management, and also conducts active scientific work. A unique creative space has been created here, the latest methods are used. Teachers help students master knowledge, develop their talent, teach them the intricacies of professional skill, readiness to serve culture faithfully, and treat the audience with respect and love.

The Institute is proud of its graduates, many of whom have become Honored and People's Artists and have won public recognition.

I wish the faculty, students, postgraduates and graduates of MGIK inspiration, success, new bright projects and premieres.

M. Mishustin

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Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, who oversees the North Caucasus Federal District, held the first meeting of the organizing committee for the preparation and holding of the Caucasus Investment Forum in 2026.

The event was attended by representatives of federal authorities, heads of regions that are part of the North Caucasus Federal District, top managers of the largest state corporations, members of business associations and public organizations, and representatives of industry communities.

The Caucasus Investment Forum is held in order to increase the investment potential of the North Caucasus Federal District and in the interests of its sustainable socio-economic development.

Opening the meeting, Alexander Novak thanked the organizers, members of the organizing committee, representatives of departments and companies that took part in organizing the Caucasus Investment Forum in 2025, noted the high assessment of the past event by the country's leadership, the high-quality composition of the participants, including foreign ones.

Over the three days, the forum was attended by over 4,100 people from 32 countries, including 1,450 representatives of Russian and foreign businesses, nine federal ministers, heads of four federal agencies, seven heads of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, as well as high-ranking delegations from Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kazakhstan and Qatar. 86 agreements worth over 206 billion rubles were signed, including five agreements with international partners. The forum program covered over 78 events with the participation of 440 speakers and an emphasis on key development areas – from industry and logistics to education and healthcare. Particular attention was paid to the youth agenda: over 1,000 students from 40 universities in the country took part in a rich program dedicated to career development, leadership and creative industries.

"The Caucasus Investment Forum 2025 in Mineralnye Vody was an important step forward – both in terms of organization and content. We were able to exceed last year's bar, and this is the result of the teamwork of all participants. The growth of investor interest in the region was demonstrated by the "Vershina" award – 266 applications from 49 regions. I believe it is important to continue holding it in 2026. The youth program covered key areas – IT, science, entrepreneurship, tourism. This confirms that the Caucasus has a strong human resource. Today, we are already starting preparations for the CIF-2026 in order to hold it even more effectively," said Alexander Novak.

Adviser to the President, responsible secretary of the organizing committee of the KIF-2025 Anton Kobyakov emphasized that the development of the North Caucasus is among the strategic priorities. He paid attention to the participation of Russian regions in the future Caucasus Investment Forum.

"I expect that the subjects of the Russian Federation and companies interested in investing in the North Caucasus Federal District will take a more active part in the preparation and holding of KIF-2026. It is important to have a mutual movement here: on the one hand, the regions' interest in the possibilities of the North Caucasus Federal District, on the other, the proactive position of the North Caucasus subjects and businesses themselves. It is necessary to present their projects more widely, attract partners, and form sustainable business ties. It is this approach – mutual interest and openness – that we will lay in the concept of the forum's exhibition program and the basis of the invitation campaign for KIF-2026 participants," said Anton Kobyakov.

The business program of KIF-2026 will be attended by heads of government bodies, representatives of Russian and international companies, mass media, youth and scientific communities. The forum will become a platform for negotiations and conclusion of business contracts for the purpose of developing investment projects and public-private partnerships in Russian regions.

The business program in 2026 will place special emphasis on expanding international economic cooperation, primarily with the countries of the Azov-Black Sea and Caspian basins. It is planned that representatives of these countries will actively participate in the forum, which will open up new opportunities for creating international transport and logistics routes and implementing joint investment projects in such areas as mining, ecology and cultural interaction.

According to the decision of the organizing committee for the preparation and holding of KIF-2026, next year the forum will be held from May 17 to 19 in the city of Mineralnye Vody at the MinvodyExpo IEC.

The organizer of the CIF is the Roscongress Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development.

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The state corporation VEB.RF will provide preferential credit funds (with a Far Eastern subsidy) in the amount of 16 billion rubles for the construction of the world's first interstate cable car, which will connect Russia and China across the Amur River. In addition, three more projects in the Amur Region and Primorye will be financed. The implementation of these projects will ensure the creation of more than 1 thousand jobs. The corresponding decision was made following a meeting of the Presidium of the Government Commission on the Socio-Economic Development of the Far East, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister – Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev.

"Attracting investment to the regions creates conditions for growth. We help all investors who are ready to work and develop the Far East, invest in the territory of Russia. Investors in the Far East receive a wide range of benefits provided by the conditions of preferential regimes, reimbursement of infrastructure costs. A number of projects significant for the Far East are already receiving preferential lending from the state corporation VEB.RF. We will continue to support investment projects aimed at developing the economy of the Far Eastern regions and improving the quality of life of Far Easterners," said Yuri Trutnev.

"VEB.RF will provide preferential financing in the amount of more than 16 billion rubles for the construction of the world's first interstate cable car, which will connect Russia and China via the Amur. Support will be provided, among other things, for the construction of a production and logistics complex in Belogorsk for the deep processing of soybeans and rapeseed, the creation of a fishing port on the Nazimov Peninsula in Vladivostok, and the construction of the Artem multimodal transport and logistics center in Primorsky Krai. The implementation of these projects will ensure the creation of more than 1,000 jobs," said Artem Dovlatov, Deputy Chairman of VEB.RF.

The Blagoveshchensk-Heihe cable car construction project is the creation of the world's first cable car that will connect not only neighboring cities, but also countries. The cross-border cable car is an innovative and high-tech infrastructure solution that facilitates communication between two neighboring countries. The project involves the construction of cable car stations and passenger terminals on opposite banks of the Amur River on the Russian and Chinese sides.

The project to create a cross-border cable car is being implemented within the framework of the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and China dated September 3, 2015. According to the design documentation, the journey along the future cable car from Blagoveshchensk to Heihe should take about three minutes, and the capacity of the cable car terminal will be 6,850 passengers per day, or up to 2.5 million passengers per year.

The project to build a production and logistics complex in the city of Belogorsk in the Amur Region will also receive preferential financing from the 16 billion rubles allocated by VEB.RF. Deep processing of soybeans and rapeseed will be organized at one of the largest processing plants in Russia. The new enterprise should be launched next year.

Two projects in Primorye will also receive support. The first is for the development of a fishing port on the Nazimov Peninsula (stage II) in Vladivostok. The project envisages the construction of a modern cold warehouse with a capacity of 25 thousand tons of one-time storage of fish products, a crab holding pool, and a site for storing refrigerated containers.

The second is the construction of the multimodal transport and logistics center "Artem". The creation of a high-tech logistics complex includes the construction of modern railway, terminal, warehouse and customs infrastructure: a container site, 70 km long intra-terminal railway tracks with a connection to the Artem-Primorsky-1 and Artem-Primorsky-2 stations of the Far Eastern Railway.

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The draft Strategy for the Development of the Automotive Industry will be updated taking into account the need to improve support measures for domestic manufacturers. This instruction was given by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin following the results of strategic session on the development of the Russian auto industry.

State support measures provided to Russian automobile industry enterprises are to be developed for the main segments of motor vehicles. At the same time, the conditions for access to them must be defined, including a high actual level of localization of products, consumer properties of the car, as well as prospects for export deliveries. Performance indicators for each support measure will be fixed in the state program "Development of Industry and Increasing Its Competitiveness". The authorized ministries must submit their proposals on this matter by the end of November.

The draft strategy being finalized should also provide for measures to increase labor productivity in the industry and reduce production costs. Another instruction concerns the formation of a forecast for the structure of the vehicle fleet, taking into account the development of the market for transport on alternative types of fuel, unmanned and connected transport. In the process of this work, long-term plans for the development of public transport infrastructure, increasing requirements for environmental protection, changing consumer preferences of citizens should be taken into account, and the segmentation of vehicles by type of fuel depending on the purpose of the transport and types of transportation, taking into account their range.

In the course of updating the draft strategy for the development of the automotive industry, the authorized ministries will also have to work out issues of forming a technological map of cooperation between manufacturers of vehicles, automotive components and materials, and software developers in a manner similar to that for national projects to ensure technological leadership.

In addition, Mikhail Mishustin instructed to take into account the need to establish legal foundations for the functioning of the institute of chief designers, bearing in mind their participation in the formation of technological policy.

The strategic session on the development of the automotive industry took place on June 17. During his speech, Mikhail Mishustin emphasized that in order to strengthen technological sovereignty, it is important to expand industrial capacity, increase the production of domestic vehicles, and generally continue to form a modern ecosystem around the automotive sector.

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1. On the national report on the progress and results of the implementation in 2024 of the State Program for the Development of Agriculture and Regulation of Agricultural Products, Raw Materials and Food Markets

The national report is presented by the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia and is a public form of reporting and monitoring of the implementation of the goals, objectives, indicators and targets of the state program.

2. On the draft amendments of the Government of the Russian Federation to the draft federal law No. 924067–8 “On Amendments to the Budget Code of the Russian Federation”

The draft amendments are aimed at clarifying the provisions of the draft federal law adopted by the State Duma in the first reading.

3. On the draft amendments of the Government of the Russian Federation to the draft federal law No. 782260–8 “On Amendments to Part One of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and Articles 12 and 30 of the Federal Law “On Enforcement Proceedings”

The draft amendments are aimed at taking into account the comments and suggestions made during the consideration of the bill in the first reading in the State Duma.

4. On the draft federal law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” (in terms of establishing additional grounds for reviewing court decisions that have entered into legal force)

The adoption of the bill will bring the provisions of the Civil Procedure Code, the Arbitration Procedure Code and the Code of Administrative Procedure into line with the legal position of the Constitutional Court.

5. On the draft amendments of the Government of the Russian Federation to the draft federal law No. 487723–8 “On Amendments to Articles 194 and 202 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation”

The draft amendments are aimed at improving the procedure for granting a license to carry out entrepreneurial activity in the management of apartment buildings.

6. On the allocation of budgetary appropriations from the reserve fund of the Government of the Russian Federation to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia in 2025 for the provision of a subsidy from the federal budget to the budget of the Tula Region in 2025

The draft order is aimed at co-financing the expenditure obligations of the Tula region arising from the implementation of measures to create the infrastructure of the innovative scientific and technological center "Innovative Scientific and Technological Center "Composite Valley".

Moscow, July 9, 2025

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