Vladimir Putin has approved a list of instructions following the December 10, 2024 meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights

In particular, the President has instructed:

🔹the Government to consider establishing a single reduced medical insurance deduction rate for socially-oriented NPOs on a permanent basis, as well as exempting transactions of food and other goods to charitable organisations from value-added tax;

🔹the Government, in cooperation with the interdepartmental working group on developing the education system, the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, and the State Duma, to organise a discussion involving both the professional community and parent associations to consider introducing an integrated grade point average assessing students' mastery of basic primary and secondary general education curricula, including the issue of accounting for this GPA in the professional education institutions admission process, and establishing a conduct grade in general education institutions;

🔹the Government, together with the Prosecutor General's Office, to take steps to ensure military personnel, law enforcement officers, military and law enforcement retirees, those who perform their military duty in the special military operation or counter-terrorist operation zones, as well as their families, preserve the right to use official residential premises;

🔹the Government, together with the FSB and the Interior Ministry, to put together additional measures to block telephone calls made from the territory of Ukraine and other unfriendly states with criminal intent, and submit proposals on increasing the level and identification of phone numbers used by public authorities;

🔹the Defence Ministry, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, the Finance Ministry, the Health Ministry, the FSB, the Defenders of the Fatherland State Foundation to Support Participants in the Special Military Operation, and the Committee of the Fatherland Warriors' Families (CFWF) autonomous public organisation, to consider introducing the mandatory genomic registration for military personnel, as well as civilians assigned tasks as part of the special military operation;

🔹the Health Ministry to submit proposals on improving access to the Russian market for innovative foreign-made pharmaceuticals, and to include representatives of patient associations in the Health Ministry commission for the formation of lists of drugs for use in healthcare and the minimal range of drugs required for providing healthcare.

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