Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, the head of the Samara Region, said that almost 45,000 requests from residents of the region had been received on a direct line with Vladimir Putin.
The Krasnodar Regional Department of Informatization plans to complete the first stage of the construction of an IT park in the regional capital this year.
Andrey Shimkiv visited two rural educational institutions on the Day of Knowledge. He visited a school in the village of Stepnoy and an educational institution in the village of Preobrazhenka.