President of Russia Vladimir Putin: I congratulate you on the beginning of the academic year.
Head of the Talent and Success Foundation Yelena Shmeleva: Thank you, Mr President. We mark both the beginning of the academic year and the completion of the first convocation of the Federal Territory Council. We worked for five years as per your decision, Federal Law No. 437 and constitutional amendments.
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I want to report to you that this constitutional novelty has proven its efficiency. Why? Because Sirius has proven itself as the country’s legal laboratory: 418 pieces of legislation, ranging from a charter to the Social Code, have been adopted. The region now independently exercises 106 of its 178 regional powers. The federal territory’s own revenues have doubled. Six government programmes are being carried out. And, of course, here is the specific feature of the federal territory – it is close to people, each 10th resident turned to us, offered something and did something – we have received 3,000 systematised proposals from citizens, and some of them have even become legal standards.
To be continued.