The meeting was held as part of preparations for the Government’s annual report to the State Duma.
Mikhail Mishustin's meeting with the New People party faction in the State Duma
Mikhail Mishustin's meeting with the New People party faction in the State Duma
Mikhail Mishustin's meeting with the New People party faction in the State Duma
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Mr Nechayev, colleagues,
I am delighted to welcome you at a meeting with the parliamentary parties of the State Duma, which we hold traditionally before the Prime Minister’s report to the State Duma. Next week, we will exchange views with other factions.
To begin with, I would like to use this occasion to congratulate you on the party’s anniversary. I know that your party was established five years ago this month. It is a young party, yet you have achieved a great deal.
These were fruitful years. The New People party is represented in the State Duma and various other legislatures, which allows you to advance balanced proposals based on feedback, including in the regions.
You have developed special relations with our business community. As the President pointed out, you are working directly with our businesspeople, which is extremely important, and have feedback with them. This is also evident in the legislative initiatives you have proposed and promoted.
For example, the threshold amounts of damage from economic crimes have been increased severalfold based on the initiative of your deputies. This instrument helps us reduce the possible levers of influence on business and strengthen its protection from unjustified criminal persecution, which is very important.
Another proposal advanced by your deputies provided for expanding the list of grants that involved profit tax exemption. As a result, these funds can be invested in innovative projects.
We also worked together on the draft laws your deputies submitted to give the businesses that invest in the high-tech sector a right to investment tax deductions. Mr Nechayev, I remember that your colleagues held in-depth discussions on this issue with our businesses last year. I am sincerely grateful to you for the thorough consideration of that matter.
This also involves concrete assistance to those producers who are ready to implement latest generation solutions, which is exactly what we want our industries and innovative companies do in the fields of industrial and technological sovereignty.
The Government appreciates your constructive approach to forming our three-year budget. We have supported the proposals advanced by the New People party on the additional funding of the development of unmanned aerial vehicles, including the establishment of a network of research and production test and competence centres and subsidies for the certification of our innovations by Russian organisations.
A crucial step toward achieving technological sovereignty is investing in artificial intelligence research. I know this is a topic you consistently raise, producing well-informed analytical reports.
Federal budget allocations for initiatives in this field – largely thanks to your faction’s ideas – have been secured. I want to take a moment to thank you for that.
Discussions on expanding the use of robotics in manufacturing have also yielded significant results. We talked about this a year ago in our pre-report meeting, and many of the points raised have been incorporated into our new federal project, Development of Industrial Robotics and Production Automation, originally proposed by Alexei Nechayev.
I also want to acknowledge your efforts in developing a modern tourism industry. You actively promote both your own initiatives and those developed in cooperation with other parliamentary parties. Sangaji Tarbayev plays a particularly important role in this, and I know that Dmitry Chernyshenko takes your proposals and ideas into account.
New People has also put forward systemic solutions, such as the initiative to create a unified registry of classified hospitality industry facilities. Standardising and formalising scattered names and abbreviations is essential for improving service quality and structuring tourism industry data.
Alongside these broader initiatives, you have also championed targeted solutions for specific issues – for example, the law on additional measures for specially protected natural areas. Visits to these sites have become increasingly popular, and enabling regular patrols within these territories will help preserve nature while also assisting visitors in case of emergency.
I am confident that today’s meeting will be both productive and focused.
