Meeting of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives Supervisory Board

Before the meeting, Vladimir Putin toured an exhibition dedicated to the results and prospects of the agency's five national initiatives, covering social development, technology, entrepreneurship, workforce, and the environment. He was accompanied by ASI General Director Svetlana Chupsheva Chupsheva SvetlanaDirector General of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin Oreshkin MaximDeputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office .

The central stand featured the leaders of ASI ratings among Russian regions. The results of the Dymov Group of Companies' investment project in Suzdal were used as an example of comprehensive infrastructure development.

The stand of the national social initiative presented successful regional practices that help improve people's quality of life. The stand of the national technology initiative was devoted to the development of unmanned aerial vehicles, and the stand of the national personnel initiative focused on working with young people.

The stands of ASI's environmental, entrepreneurial and climate initiatives presented the quality of life rating in the field of Ecology and the investment climate rating. In addition, Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin Pushilin DenisHead of the Donetsk People's Republic briefed the President on the implementation of the Strategy for the Sustainable Development of the Azov Sea Region.

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Vladimir Putin: Colleagues,

The Agency for Strategic Initiatives will be marking its 15^th anniversary in 2026. This is a major milestone for this proactive, forward-looking team and a significant landmark in its development.

I would like to begin this meeting of the Supervisory Board by thanking the ASI team and all those who stood at the roots of this agency and who continue this important work today by helping to carry out vital social projects.

I signed an executive order to further improve the framework for supporting civil society initiatives. It defines the agency's operating domain and tracks. I do hope that you will continue to make a meaningful and tangible contribution to promoting lasting and steady development at the regional and municipal levels, which is expected to foster development nationwide.

The National Quality of Life Ranking is one of the key tools for measuring our joint performance. As usual, the Supervisory Board sums up its results during our meetings. I would like to ask you to focus on the regions which excelled in supporting young people and families with many children.

We must spread the best practices and ensure that they become part of the regional programmes for increasing the birth rate. The agency has already helped 19 regions to devise plans of this kind.

Employers also have a major role to play in the demographic agenda. After all, being able to earn an adequate and stable income, benefit from corporate benefits and a flexible working schedule - all this offers additional incentives for working parents to create big families and have more children.

The number of children under six years old in the families of employees will be factored into the Standard for Corporate Social Capital. This is very important in this context. The Agency initiated the drafting of this document and the Government approved it.

Being able to exercise is just as important for achieving demographic objectives. The agency and Russian businesses in general have successful, system-wide practices in corporate sports. I am looking forward to hearing a report on this topic during today's meeting too.

Overall, Russian businesses carry out quite a few projects in social affairs, environmental protection, technology and other domains. I would like to ask Sber and other leading companies to literally micromanage regions and municipalities in order to introduce them to their best practices and help implement them, just as the agency has done using its Smarteka platform, as Svetlana Chupsheva just said in her remarks.

The projects we are running with Russian businesses build upon the long-standing tradition of Russian corporate social responsibility. I just mentioned this when touring the exhibition. We saw the initiative by a private investor to develop Suzdal, one of Russia's oldest cities.

This is an interesting, important and useful experience. We need other teams and regions across the country to adopt it.

To be continued.