Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues

Agenda: indexing social pensions, an action plan for developing nature-based solutions, a roadmap for expanding freight traffic volumes via international transport corridors.

Mikhail Mishustin's opening remarks

Dmitry Chernyshenko's report on the three-year action plan for developing nature-based solutions

Vitaly Saveliev's report on a roadmap for international transport corridors

Excerpts from the transcript:

Mikhail Mishustin: Good morning, colleagues.

In my report to the State Duma last week, I noted that the incomes of the older generation remain under the Government's close supervision. As of 1 January 2026, insurance pensions were increased. Now, we will index social pensions from 1 April.

The increase will affect more than four million people. These include persons with disabilities, orphans and families that have lost a breadwinner, as well as individuals who do not have sufficient employment record to qualify for an insurance pension. Payments will also rise for Great Patriotic War veterans, members of volunteer units in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, those involved in clean-up operations at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and other categories of citizens.

All necessary resources have been allocated to meet these social obligationsIt is important that the increased payments are delivered to people accurately and on time.

Let me turn to another issue.

Technological development and digitalisation are creating additional opportunities in virtually every sector of the economy and the social sphere. However, their application also places a significant burden on the environment and leads to more intensive consumption of natural resources. We therefore need breakthrough solutions capable of restoring the balance between the biosphere and the techno-sphere, as well as strengthening public health. The President spoke in detail about this at the Future Technologies Forum.

The issue of innovation was also raised in the questions put forward by deputies during the report to the State Duma.

Acting on the President's instructions, the Government has started preparing the necessary framework for research into nature-based solutions. The core principles and criteria for classifying such technologies have been defined, along with the prospects and priorities for their development in Russia.

Mr Chernyshenko, please outline how work in this area is to be organised.

More to be posted soon.