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First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Kiriyenko chaired a videoconference meeting of the Coordinating Committee for organising Presidential Grants competitions for the development of civil society. The meeting approved the allocation of grants for 2025.

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.

The event focused on the preparation and participation of the book community in the celebration of the 80^th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Presidential Aide Dmitry Mironov held a meeting of the Presidential Council for Cossack Affairs.

Presidential Aide, Secretary of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art Vladimir Medinsky held a meeting to prepare a Council’s session.

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.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov chaired a regular meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations Presidium.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.