A meeting of the interagency working group on countering illegal financial transactions chaired by Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino was held via video conference.

Vladimir Putin called Arina Porkhal, a ninth-grader from the city of Gorlovka, a participant in the New Year Tree of Wishes charity event.

The President called 12-year-old Taisiya Leonova from the Moscow Region, a participant in the charity event the New Year Tree of Wishes.

Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Vologda Region as part of the nationwide inspection of the system for the prevention of social orphanhood. She met with the region’s Governor Georgy Filimonov and held an expanded meeting with heads of regional agencies operating in the child neglect and juvenile delinquency prevention system.

The President had a telephone conversation with Margarita Rutsinskaya, a 10-year-old participant in the New Year Tree of Wishes charity campaign from Shebekino, Belgorod Region.

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Vladimir Region as part of a nationwide inspection of the system for the prevention of social orphanhood. During her visit, the Commissioner held a working meeting with the regional governor and participated in an expanded meeting with heads of agencies and institutions of the child neglect and juvenile delinquency prevention system.

Vladimir Putin chaired a State Council meeting at the Kremlin on the support of families in the Russian Federation.

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Republic of Karelia as part of the Nationwide Inspection of the System for the Prevention of Social Orphanhood.

Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova held a meeting of the Parental Platform, a public advisory consultative body. Representatives of parental communities presented a summary of their collaborative efforts over the past year.

On December 11–12, Ulyanovsk hosted the second Master Forum All-Russian Festival of Social Theatre Practitioners, organised by the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, with support from the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Russian Union of Theatre Workers.

The Children’s Rights Commissioner met with Governor of the Samara Region Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, held a meeting with heads of child neglect prevention system agencies, and personally met with several families.

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova chaired a meeting of the Public Council to review the main results of the council’s activities throughout 2024 and chart plans for the upcoming year. Today, the Public Council of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights includes over 150 members from the public sector, academia and public administrators.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On the Presidential Council for the Implementation of State Demographic and Family Policy.

The Children’s Rights Commissioner opened a forum of the National Inspectorate for the Social Orphanhood Prevention System.

Presidential Aide, Secretary of the Council for Culture and Art Vladimir Medinsky chaired a meeting on Russian children’s literature.

With the assistance of the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights and mediation by the State of Qatar, two children who were living in Ukraine were reunited with their relatives in Russia. Another seven children living in Russia were reunited with their relatives in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law On Amending Articles 127 and 146 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation.

The President signed Federal Law On Amendments to Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation.

With the assistance of Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, 26 Russian children from a refugee camp in north-eastern Syria returned to Russia.

Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order On Amending the Presidential Executive Order of the Russian Federation No. 404 On the Establishment of a Fund to Support Children in Difficult Life Situations of March 26, 2008.