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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Comrades, veterans of the prosecutor’s office,

Please accept my warmest greetings on Prosecutor’s Office Workers Day.

Established more than three centuries ago, the Russian Prosecutor’s Office has traversed different historical eras, but has always remained one of the most significant and substantive components of the state system, making a significant contribution to ensuring the rule of law and legal order in society. The best representatives of the agency exemplified devoted service to the Fatherland and were embodiments of integrity, incorruptibility and high standards.

Today, as before, the Prosecutor’s Office plays a key role in protecting the people’s rights and freedoms, and the foundations of the constitutional order, in Russia’s progress as a rule-of-law, democratic and social welfare state focused on ensuring a decent life and the free development of every person.

The prosecutors’ professionalism, objectivity and broad authority help them restore citizens’ rights, protect their reputations and legitimate interests, prevent injustice and abuse, promote the implementation of strategic development plans and long-term social programmes thereby strengthening faith in the state system’s resilience and justice and, most importantly, bolstering respect for the Prosecutor’s Office in society.

Our citizens expect you to take firm, consistent and efficient action, primarily in such priority areas as protecting labour, housing and other rights, especially those of veterans, people with disabilities, orphans and large families.

One of the topmost priorities in your work today is to ensure social guarantees for participants in the special military operation, as well as their family members. All the payments due to them, including salaries, pensions, benefits and compensations, and granting the relevant privileges must be made in strict accordance with the law, in a timely manner and in full. I repeat, prosecutors should always keep these issues under review, as your assistance in eliminating emerging problems and violations of the law is often indispensable.

Other aspects of the prosecutor’s office are no less important. I am referring to your efforts to fight terrorism and extremism, crime and corruption, protect the country’s economic interests and the rights of entrepreneurs, as well as to support state prosecution in courts, and your environmental activities.

The Prosecutor General’s Office and its regional and municipal branches need to pay special attention to addressing the problems that people are facing in Donbass and Novorossiya, the Kursk Region and in our other regions located in the immediate vicinity of the line of contact. It is necessary to continue working on the integration of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions into Russia’s legal landscape while assisting with those regions’ social and economic revival in every possible way.

I would like to note that prosecutors have recently done a great deal to strengthen oversight of Russia’s defence industry, including the planned supplies of weapons and equipment to the troops. I ask you to continue working on this systematically and in coordination with other agencies.

Once again, I wish you all the best and would like to thank the current and former Russian prosecutors for their conscientious performance. I am confident that the Russian prosecutor corps will continue to faithfully serve our people, the Fatherland and the Law.

I wish you and your loved ones good health and every success.