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Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev chaired a meeting of the Maritime Board of the Russian Federation.

The inaugural session of the working group to prepare for the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sport was conducted via videoconference. The Council is set to assemble in the first half of 2025, with a primary focus on advancing adaptive physical culture and sport.

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.

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.

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.

A meeting of the State Council Commission on Family was held in the Sirius Federal Territory as part of the 4^th Congress of Young Scientists.

The State Council Commission on Physical Culture and Sport met for the second time. The meeting was chaired by Chair of the Commission and Tula Region Governor Dmitry Milyayev.

As instructed by Presidential Aide and State Council Secretary Alexei Dyumin, a meeting was held with the participation of chairs of the State Council commissions on drafting new national projects. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin took part in the meeting.

Presidential Aide, Special Presidential Representative on Climate Issues Ruslan Edelgeriyev held bilateral talks with high-level representatives of more than 20 countries on the sidelines of the 29^th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held on November 11–22 in Azerbaijan.

Presidential Aide, Special Presidential Representative on Climate Issues Ruslan Edelgeriyev headed the Russian delegation at the 29^th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which took place on November 11–22, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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.

The Public Council of the Time of Heroes programme held its meeting. The programme is being implemented on the President’s instruction by the Higher School of Public Administration under the Presidential Academy. At the meeting, the launch of the enrolment campaign for the second master’s degree round was announced and the results of the second module for the first round, which concluded on November 5, were summed up.

On November 14, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Amur Region as part of the National Inspection for Social Orphanhood Prevention System.

Presidential Aide, Chair of the Maritime Board Nikolai Patrushev visited the naval base of the Caspian Flotilla.

First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Kiriyenko chaired a meeting of the Coordinating Committee for organising Presidential grant competitions for the development of civil society. The meeting participants reviewed a report on the implementation of the projects completed in 2023 and financed by the Presidential Grants Foundation and selected the best 100 of them.

On November 13–14, Novosibirsk hosted the National Forum for Social Orphanhood Prevention “To Live and Be Raised in a Family” – the 23^rd National Congress of Commissioners for Children’s Rights in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation.