Instructions for the Government of the Russian Federation included, in particular, amending laws dealing with defining labour relations and the way economic operators stipulate penalties and sanctions in their civil law contracts. The President also instructed the Government to work on developing and improving palliative medical care by offering more services of this kind, as well as making one-off payments to families of service personnel who died (lost their lives)while taking part in the special military operation, and individuals tasked with countering an armed invasion of Russia’s territory as part of a military provocation along the state border and in Russian regions adjacent to the area where the special military operation is taking place.
The President instructed the Government of the Russian Federation to work with the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights on streamlining procedures for assessing Russian language skills among compatriots relocating to Russia for whom Russian is a mother tongue, when they enrol in primary and secondary schools. The instructions also concern compiling a list of sectors which have the potential to employ a substantial number of people with disabilities, and encouraging economic operators in the pilot regions to promote this type of employment.
Together with the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Government of the Russian Federation received instructions to take action to prevent ghost employee schemes involving people with disabilities and other abuses of workplace quotas for people with disabilities.
The President instructed the Government of the Russian Federation to work with the executive bodies of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, and the Belgorod, Bryansk, Zaporozhye, Kursk and Kherson regions on employing Kursk Region’s experience in using unmanned aerial systems when assessing damage suffered by residential buildings during combat, in order to provide compensation to the affected households.
The Government of the Russian Federation was instructed to work with regional executive bodies on monitoring social services, including those provided by non-profit organisations, improving social services and expanding the list of non-profit organisations involved in providing these services.
The Government of the Russian Federation will work with the Supreme Court, along with the Prosecutor General’s Office, academic and civil society organisations on reviewing proposals from the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights to encourage people to serve as jurors, while also introducing stricter penalties for interfering with the activities of jurors and reducing the number of reasons for cancelling non-guilty verdicts delivered during a trial by jury, as well as ensuring the corresponding legal amendments, if necessary.
The President instructed the Ministry of Transport to work with the Interior Ministry with the participation of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, and the interested State Council commissions on streamlining regulations related to using personal mobility devices such as electric bicycles, including as part of business operations, and whether it would be possible to enact restrictions on their use on pavements.