Agenda: Developing manufacturing in the new regions, fighting telephone and cyber fraud, accelerating road construction.
Government meeting
Government meeting
Government meeting
Government meeting
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Before we move to the agenda of this Government meeting, I would like to share some good news with you on developing manufacturing in our new regions, enabling them to contribute to achieving national goals as defined by the President and reinforcing the country’s technological sovereignty.
The Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are home to major manufacturing sites serving the metals, engineering and other key sectors. We are currently undertaking comprehensive efforts to rebuild them and expand their capacity.
The Government has been committed to offering additional incentives to help them deliver on these formidable tasks. For that, we have set forth special preferential coefficients for ensuring that a whole range of their products qualify as domestically manufactured goods.
This measure will be in force until the end of next year. Among other things, it will cover assembly lines for the mining sector, hardware for processing metal, drilling systems, excavators, as well as rock and ore crushers.
Having the status of a Russian good place these assets at an advantage compared to foreign hardware in terms of government procurement, while also enabling plants to benefit from various support programmes and tools, including federal subsidies.
Accordingly, this will enhance corporate performance. Businesses will also have more opportunities for undertaking investment projects when upgrading their manufacturing infrastructure.
We will now move to our agenda.
In keeping with the President’s instructions, the Government has continued its effort to create a comprehensive framework for combatting telephone and cyber fraud. In late 2025, the State Duma received a draft law which aims to improve the way we protect people from scammers who use digital technology. It includes about 20 initiatives.
In addition to these measures, we will also review several amendments to our laws and regulations.
These new initiatives are expected to come into force in September.
Fighting cyber and telephone fraud is a shared objective for the state and the business community. It is only by working together that we can significantly limit criminals in their ability to defraud people.
I ask Mr Grigorenko to keep these measures under his personal control.
Accelerating road construction in Russian regions is also on the agenda.
The President always pays special attention to construction projects in the transport sector. He emphasised its importance in terms of promoting sustainable development at regional and national levels and also achieving our primary goal, which consists of improving the quality of life for our people.
The Government has been undertaking system-wide efforts to this effect. Over the past five years, there were 140,000 kilometres of federal, regional and local roads which were either built or upgraded. This is work in progress, including as part of the Infrastructure for Life national project.
There is also a draft law for improving funding mechanisms. It enables the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to use their own funds for building and maintaining federal road infrastructure, while also benefiting from federal budget support and private investment. This is expected to inject some positive momentum in the initiatives that matter so much for the regions by building this important infrastructure in the regions ahead of schedule.
There are already plans to use this new mechanism in several projects, including Tyumen’s southern bypass road, as well as the M-12 East (Vostok) motorway’s interchange with the so-called Small Ring Road in the Moscow Region, and several other projects.
We expect this solution to play a major role in improving transport connectivity in our country and enabling people to travel in a way that suits them best.
