The agenda includes the results of the working visit to Uzbekistan and the International Conference on Strengthening Cultural Ties and Developing Creative Industries in St Petersburg, funding for the programme to build a network of university campuses in the regions, preliminary results of final school exams, and the results of the nationwide online voting for beautification projects.
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Dmitry Chernyshenko’s report on the preliminary results of final school exams
Marat Khusnullin’s report on the results of the nationwide online voting for beautification projects
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Dmitry Chernyshenko’s report on the preliminary results of final school exams
Marat Khusnullin’s report on the results of the nationwide online voting for beautification projects
Mikhail Mishustin: Colleagues, good afternoon.
A number of significant international events took place last week. We went on a working visit to Uzbekistan, where we held substantive talks with the country’s leadership. We discussed current issues related to the development of trade and economic relations and the implementation of joint projects, including, in considerable detail, cooperation in high-tech and industrial sectors.
We also took part in the 5th Tashkent International Investment Forum. Russia is one of Uzbekistan’s key trade partners. Thousands of Russian enterprises operate in the country, implementing mutually beneficial projects in energy, industry, agriculture, digitalisation, and many other areas. Our countries will continue working together to develop our national economies.
An international conference dedicated to cooperation in culture and creative industries was also held in St Petersburg, with the participation of the prime ministers of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
The President emphasised that further strengthening friendly ties with our closest allies and neighbours remains an absolute priority. Our peoples are united by centuries of shared history and a rich cultural heritage. We are committed to working together to preserve and enrich this heritage on the basis of mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests.
Together with our colleagues and fellow heads of government, we shared our views on the steps needed to advance the creative economy. This sphere is built primarily on the ideas and talents of millions of people. It has enormous potential and plays an important role in enhancing the competitiveness of our countries and preserving national identity. We will continue to create conditions for the growth and promotion of creative industries, including in international markets.
Colleagues, many constructive proposals and ideas were put forward during the conference. I ask you to carefully review them within your respective areas of responsibility.
Now, let us turn to the sphere of education.
We continue the programme to establish a network of modern university campuses.
The President noted that, by developing advanced educational infrastructure, we must make a significant step forward in strengthening the regional education system.
Today, more than 30 such facilities have already been built for students. These include academic buildings where students attend lectures and seminars, conduct research, and work in libraries and reading rooms.
They also include recreational facilities and sports infrastructure, providing opportunities for creative activities and fitness.
Of course, comfortable dormitories are also being built. For many young people who come to study from other cities and regions, they help solve the issue of accommodation.
A number of additional university campuses are currently at an advanced stage of construction.
The Government will allocate an additional nearly 14 billion roubles to the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Nizhny Novgorod, Sakhalin, and Chelyabinsk regions as co-financing for this year, as well as a further 17.5 billion roubles over the next two years.
These funds will help the regions complete the construction of campuses in Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on schedule and ensure that they are commissioned on time.
Mr Chernyshenko, please keep these issues and the implementation of these measures under close supervision.
Here is one more issue.
The main period of graduation exams, a highly important phase for many school students, is now ending. Over 600,000 Grade 11 students, as well as almost 1.7 million Grade 9 students, took these exams.
Today, the so-called reserve days (when school students who were unable to take exams for good reasons can do this) are commencing. If need be, they can resit the exams in early July.
School graduates prepared seriously for their university or college entrance exams; first of all, this concerns subjects which will become the foundation of their future careers. Mr Dmitry Chernyshenko, please tell us about how the exams are proceeding in greater detail. Are more children choosing to take the Unified State Exam in natural sciences, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and information technology (you and we often discuss this issue)?
Please, the floor is yours.
Dmitry Chernyshenko’s report on the preliminary results of final school exams
Dmitry Chernyshenko: Thank you.
Mr Mikhail Mishustin, colleagues,
Yes, the umber of school students choosing natural sciences is steadily increasing.
I will discuss this issue by order of priority.
First, I would like to discuss the organisation of the Unified State Exam. As you have said, over 660,000 school students registered for this exam this year; they can take it at about 6,000 facilities.
We prioritise security issues. Our schools hosted drills, organised by the Ministry of Education, the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, the Ministry for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, the Interior Ministry, Rosgvardiya (Russian National Guard) and other concerned agencies. Various emergencies were simulated during these drills. I would now like to say a few words about the quality of education. As per the President’s instruction, we focus on natural sciences. The share of students taking the Unified State Exam in any of these subjects has increased this year.
The share of students taking their physics exam has increased by the greatest margin. In all, 146,000 students took this exam, a 24.2 percent increase on 2025. The share of students preferring chemistry and specialised mathematics has increased by 11 percent and 10.2 percent respectively; this segment is the most numerous, totalling 370,000 boys and girls.
They are closely followed by biology and information technology, an increase of 7.5 percent and 5.8 percent. These subjects are among the most popular among school students.
Mr Mishustin, we can see specific results of implementing a comprehensive action plan to improve the quality of mathematics and natural science education, approved by your directive.
We monitor its implementation using information screens of the Government’s coordination Centre; they were developed on your instructions. I am talking about Special Project No 61 Standard Data in Education.
The Main State Exam for Grade 9 students is the second issue.
The exam still continues, and its main period is to end on 6 July.
As you have noted, about 1.7 million Grade 9 students are expected to take part this year. They can take the exams at over 12,000 facilities.
I would like to recall that we are also conducting an experiment when high school graduates can take exams in just two subjects, the Russian language and mathematics (instead of the traditional four subjects), for receiving their graduation certificates and enrolling in colleges.
This allows 12 territories involved in the pilot project to train graduates in the most popular industrial careers.
This year, 102,000 students have used the opportunity to take exams in two mandatory subjects.
Mr Mishustin,
The growing number of secondary school students who choose natural sciences for their final examinations is a clear sign that they are planning to major in engineering at university.
This year, universities have allotted almost 264,000 places in these disciplines, and colleges – another 494,000 places.
In all, this exceeds what was the case four years ago, for example, by almost 100,000 vacancies.
The important thing is that we take cues from the Labour Ministry’s personnel forecasts as we plan enrolment target figures.
We also implement step by step the instructions on developing the engineering universities and technological colleges you handed down at the strategic sessions.
We have been monitoring the organisation of final examinations and the ongoing enrolment campaign.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you. It is great that increasingly more school leavers are planning to major in technology and engineering. This also aligns with the personnel forecast that we have incorporated in the Personnel national project.
I sincerely hope that they will become skilled specialists and professionals, who are eagerly awaited by our plants, primarily industrial and hi-tech businesses.
I want to wish success to all school leavers: let them score as many points as they want.
Our next topic concerns efforts to beautify cities and villages in this country.
Many residents take an active and energetic part in these efforts. This makes it possible not only to solve certain local problems but also bring to rights embankments, parks, and streets, as well as create necessary spaces, such as places where children could play safely, or pet walking areas.
Our President always emphasises that people’s views must be taken into account in such cases, because they know better what is to be done as a priority.
Thanks to the national online vote for beautification sites, we see that millions of people across this country are not indifferent to where they live. We hold this vote every year in order for people’s opinions to be heard and accepted.
Mr Khusnullin, you are monitoring these processes. Please, tell us how the sixth such vote has become accomplished. People have chosen the sites to be beautified as a priority next year. We would like to hear about this in more detail. Please, you have the floor.
Marat Khusnullin’s report on the results of the nationwide online voting for beautification projects
Marat Khusnullin: Mr Mishustin, President of Russia Vladimir Putin has set the task of raising the people’s involvement in shaping a comfortable urban environment. The national online voting for choosing amenities directly helps in achieving this goal.
The President launched the sixth voting on April 21, Day of Local Self-Government, at the All-Russian Municipal Forum, Small Homeland – the Strength of Russia. The voting finished on June 12, Russia Day. In a month and a half, 15,883,904 people took part in it. I want to note that almost 12 percent of the country’s population was involved.
We can see that the mechanism of citizens’ direct participation in municipal improvements is in high demand: more than 68 million votes were obtained over the six years. People see real changes, and this is the main result.
This year the geography of the voting covered 88 constituent entities. The number of municipalities involved in the voting made up almost 2,000. The residents had 6,800 facilities to choose from.
It is important that backbone populated areas, including villages and settlements with population less than 20,000, joined the voting in 2026.
In terms of the total number of votes, the Sverdlovsk Region was the most active, with over 832,000 votes, it was followed by the Republic of Bashkortostan with more than 805,000 and the Moscow Region with nearly 750,000 votes. The Republic of Tyva, where 33 percent of the population voted, the Tomsk Region with 25 percent, and the Chechen Republic with 21 percent led in terms of resident involvement.
I wanted to point out the volunteers’ activity. This year, almost 194,000 people were engaged in the volunteer support, which is 24,000 more than the year before. Their work helped millions of citizens make their choice.
Three ways of voting were offered for the convenience of participants: through the Gosuslugi (State and Municipal Services) portal and application, through the Max national messenger, this year’s innovation, as well as with the help of volunteers at the Dobro.RF platform. Such an approach makes the process maximally available and clear to each person. In this case, the public space chosen by voting is included in the federal register of best practices in municipal improvement making it possible to replicate successful experience all over the country.
I want to emphasise that according to opinion polls, 87 percent of Russia’s population are aware of the federal project Shaping a Comfortable Urban Environment, under which the voting is being held. And according to the People’s Front, it is in municipal improvements that people see the greatest changes for the better.
I will remind you that the federal project was included in the national project Infrastructure for Life by the President’s decision and was extended until 2030.
I want to thank President of Russia Vladimir Putin and you, Mr Mishustin, for the constant support for this project as well as everybody who organised the voting: the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Digital Development, the United Russia Party, the regional teams, the non-government institutions and the huge volunteer corps.
And, of course, great thanks to each of almost 16 million citizens, who made their choice. It is you who are the main driving force of changes. Together we are creating a comfortable, modern and cosy living environment in every corner of our country.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you, Mr Khusnullin.
Certainly, this work should be continued. Moreover, such actions intended for establishing a comfortable urban environment for life may became the basis for implementing larger improvement projects for a comprehensive development of territories and master planning as well.
