NEWS

November 21st is World Television Day, established by the United Nations in 1996 to highlight the role of television in the modern world.

Voting for the advent of 4G in small settlements, which will be the first to connect to the Internet next year, has ended.

Over 630,000 people voted on the State Services Portal, and another 13,000 votes were received by Russian Ministry of Digital Development through the post office. The highest number of people voted for settlements in Tatarstan, Krasnodar Territory, Chechnya, Yakutia, Buryatia, Komi, Kemerovo and Chelyabinsk regions.

Rostelecom Telecommunication Company announces the start of the annual contest «Together into the Digital Future» for representatives of the regional media sphere.

On November 17, in Moscow, the 6th All-Russian Forum of Federal Educational and Methodological Associations in the Secondary Vocational Education System took place. More than 200 representatives of leading scientific and educational organizations in secondary vocational education from Russian regions took part in the already annual Forum held in full-time and remote format.

Three new services in My Subsidies super service, namely, new subsidies for farmers, grants for youth and compensation to companies for re-equipping vehicles to use gas motor fuel, were implemented.

On November 17, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., branch of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network “Radio-television broadcasting centre of Tatarstan” will turn on the purple illumination on the television tower in Kazan to support the All-Russian social campaign «I do care». 

Broadcaster of Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (RTRS) prepared an interactive online project. The publication of materials is timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of Russian TV and the two-year anniversary of the broadcasting federal channels exclusively in digital format.

The Bank of Russia pays special attention to the issues of consumer protection and customer satisfaction of products and services of financial organizations. To this end, the regulator initiated a survey on public satisfaction with the safety of financial products and services.

Digital Start 2021 is a free online educational programme, where students and schoolchildren learn the basics of technological entrepreneurship, work with experts and create their own project.

Russian Ministry of Digital Development and Ministry of Health report: QR codes that Russians receive on the State Services Portal after vaccination against COVID are valid for the entire period.

On November 8 in the morning, some users of the State Services Portal noticed that the validity period of QR codes changed from 12 to 6 months.

This was because of the technical work carried out on the State Services Portal.