A meeting of the State Council Commission on the “Data Economy” was held on 6 February 2026 at the Moscow Region Government House to discuss the development of artificial intelligence in Russia. Andrey Vorobyov, who chairs the Commission, described, among other things, how AI is being implemented in the Moscow Region.

“Our President has set the task of creating a national plan for the implementation of generative artificial intelligence. And it’s clear that specific products are crucial. Therefore, the task of our Commission and the regions is to propose successful practices for replication. The goal is to free people from routine tasks by transferring typical automation processes to artificial intelligence, and to address the labor shortage in areas where human competence and responsibility are needed,” the Governor said.

Andrey Vorobyov also noted the need to create industry standards for AI maturity and define a list of areas for AI implementation that will address everything important to people: healthcare, housing and utilities, transportation, social services, and so on. For each area, it would be advisable to create a register of effective AI solutions that are mandatory for implementation. The importance of regulations and laws that will facilitate the further development of AI was noted. It is necessary to clearly define which areas can use open-source solutions and which can only use sovereign ones.

Another key issue is the availability of digital infrastructure. Developing and training AI models requires a powerful computing base and a stable power supply. Currently, many regions are forced to rent computer rooms in data centers. A federal program for co-financing the construction of data centers is currently being proposed.

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation Alexey Dyumin announced the creation of a new Presidential Commission that will coordinate efforts in this area. He emphasized the importance of strategies for the successful implementation of AI and noted that the development of artificial intelligence is linked to state and technological sovereignty.

“As the President has said, the development of artificial intelligence is a matter of state, technological, and, in general, value sovereignty. In this regard, the head of state has instructed the creation of a Presidential Commission on the Development of Artificial Intelligence,” Dyumin said.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Chief of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko emphasized the growing role of artificial intelligence in everyday life and the country’s economy and outlined priority areas for its legislative regulation.

“Considering that the application of AI affects all sectors of the Russian economy, the state must mitigate and regulate risks wherever they exist. We have identified five to seven areas that we are currently working on, where legislative regulation of activities related to the use of artificial intelligence is necessary,” Grigorenko noted.

Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of the Information Society, participated in the Commission meeting.

For more information about the event, please visit the Moscow Region Government website.

The additional issue of the Information Society Journal for 2025 is published. The main theme of the issue is Sectoral Digital Development International Experience and National Practice. Part 2. The first part of this issue was published in December 2024.

This issue concludes the publication of the main results from the three-year (2021–2023) research efforts in scientific-methodological and applied economic studies on sectoral digital transformation. The first issue on this topic was published in December 2024.

Modeling Digital Development Processes
Digital Competencies of Employees
Financing Digital Development
Production of Domestic Digital Solutions
Digital Technologies for Sectoral Development

In his address to readers, the issue’s editor Yuri Hohlov wrote:

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This thematic issue of the Information Society journal concludes the publication of the main findings of three years of scientific, methodological, and applied economic research (2021–2023) on the digital transformation of various fields of activity. This research was conducted by staff of the All-Russian Foreign Trade Academy, together with experts from the Institute of the Information Society, on assignment from the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. The first issue on this topic was published in December 2024.

The issue opens with an article devoted to modeling digital development processes as an innovative two-stage process influenced by factors within the internal environment of organizations in specific fields of activity and their external environment. The chosen approach allows us to consider digital development as a set of process and product innovations based on digital technologies. This, in turn, opens the possibility of systematizing and applying the results and methods of various disciplines to the construction of digital development models.

The following two articles examine the influence of factors such as the level of digital competencies of personnel and the financial support for digital development processes in a specific field of activity on digital development. These supplement the publications from the previous issue, which analyzed other technological and non-technological factors. The availability of official statistical data (even if limited) allowed us not only to construct conceptual frameworks for monitoring and assessing the impact of various factors on the digital development of a particular field of activity but also to pilot-test the developed tools, confirming the viability of the chosen approach.

One of the central articles in the issue is devoted to the production of digital products (goods and services), without which digital development is impossible in any field of activity. For Russia, under international pressure and sanctions imposed by Western countries, the production of domestic digital products has become a priority. Therefore, the article places additional emphasis on developing a methodology for monitoring and assessing the scale of domestic digital production, its competitiveness (including internationally), and its development potential.

Finally, the concluding article, based on the available data and the developed conceptual framework, provides a detailed analysis of the use of digital technologies both in the internal business processes of organizations in this field of activity and in interactions with external counterparties. The system for monitoring and evaluating digital development processes presented in the authors’ publications is universal in nature and provides effective feedback for targeted progress toward achieving national development goals for both the country as a whole and for individual areas of activity.

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The full text of the issue can be found on the journal’s website.

Please meet the fourth issue of the scientific and analytical journal “Information Society” for 2025. The main theme of the issue is Sociocultural features of digital transformation.

The articles in this issue cover, among others, the following topics:

Digital transformation of economic management
Specialization of digital ecosystems
The information mission of money
Teaching media communications in Russian universities
Network analysis in organizational behavior
Modern methods of digital demography
Use of AI in law
Structure of the domestic video game market
Multi-agent processing of natural language elements
UAVs for environmental pollution monitoring
Implementation of digitalization in Kenya

In her address to readers “2025: Summa summarum”, the journal’s editor-in-chief Tatiana Ershova wrote:

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Following a long-established tradition, we summarize our editorial activities at the end of the year. Let’s start by noting that during the calendar year 2025, we received 174 submissions, 104 of which were accepted, 62 were rejected, and 8 are still in progress. The acceptance rate is 62%, while the rejection rate is 38%, with 18% rejected immediately and 20% after peer review. These figures have been quite stable in recent years and demonstrate, firstly, the high interest in our journal, secondly, our strict requirements for the design and presentation of submissions, and thirdly, our consistently thorough selection process based on peer review.

During the year, 96 articles were published, the vast majority of which were accepted in 2024. Today, the backlog for publication of submissions that have passed all stages of editorial review has grown to 12 months. The reason is the same as last year: against the backdrop of political events in recent years, which have hampered the participation of Russian researchers in international publishing, the flow of articles to our editorial office has increased significantly, while the stated size of our editorial portfolio is limited by commitments.

This past year, the journal published papers across a wide range of research areas. The largest number of papers fell under the “Digital Economy” section (18), followed by “Information Society Technologies” (11), “Education in the Information Society” (8), and “Information Society and Law” (7). Six articles each were published under the sections “Fundamental Research in the Area of the Information Society,” “Human in the Information Society,” “Measuring the Information Society,” and the new section “Use of Information Society Technologies.” Four articles each were included in the sections “Socioeconomic Aspects of the Information Society,” “Information Society and Government,” and “Information Society and the Media.” The remaining sections each contained one or two articles.

The number of our authors in 2025 was 170, an all-time high in the journal’s 36-year history. 98 authors were from Moscow, 14 from St. Petersburg (two of whom were graduate students from China), nine from Nalchik, eight from Ufa, six from Vologda, five from Vladivostok and Kazan, four from Izhevsk and Samara, three from Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod, two from Nizhnevartovsk, Novokuznetsk, and Perm, and one from Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Sochi.

Among the 2025 authors were 49 doctors of science and 75 candidates of science. 32 authors hold the academic title of professor, and 39 — the title of associate professor. The author teams also included 19 specialists without academic degrees, 17 graduate students, 3 master’s students, 2 bachelor’s students, 9 undergraduate students, and even one high school student (co-authored with a candidate of science). One of this year’s authors is an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, and eight are members of our editorial board.

The results of our editorial work can, without exaggeration, be called convincing, and all this is thanks to our wonderful authors and reviewers, to whom we sincerely thank and congratulate them on the upcoming New Year. We also sincerely congratulate all our readers and wish them all the best in the New Year!

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The full text of the issue can be found on the journal’s website.

Dear colleagues, partners, and friends!

The IIS team congratulates you on the upcoming year 2026 and wishes you new successes, new hopes and achievements in the new year.

We wish you all strong health, personal happiness and optimism!

Happy holiday and fruitful vacations!

At their final event of 2025, the conference “AIMission: Immersion in the World of Intelligent Technologies,” experts from the ITMO Institute of Artificial Intelligence presented key achievements of 2025, from the first Russian system for the automated creation of multi-agent AI to a new bachelor’s degree program. The conference was held under the auspices of the National Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence.

Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of the Information Society, was among the invited experts and actively participated in the discussion.

For more information about the event, please visit the ITMO Institute of Artificial Intelligence website (in Russian).

On December 11, 2025, VINITI RAS hosted Section 3, “Artificial Intelligence,” of the XIV International Scientific Conference “IT Standard-2025.” It was organized by Technical Committee 164 in cooperation with VINITI. The section was moderated by Sergey Garbuk, Acting Director of VINITI RAS and Chairman of TC 164/ITC 566, “Artificial Intelligence.”

The section opened with the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Russian Highway Research Institute and VINITI RAS. The areas of cooperation are related to activities in the field of scientific and technical information, including the development of regulatory legal acts, the implementation of educational programs, research activities, the application of artificial intelligence technologies in this field, and others.

The section featured presentations by a number of experts. In particular, Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of the IIS Board of Directors, full member of the Russian Engineering Academy, and Chairman of TC 164/Subcommittee 02 “Data,” presented a report on the harmonization of international and national standardization.

The section participants demonstrated high engagement: almost every presentation was followed by a series of questions, which then developed into a productive discussion.

More detailed information about the section meeting is available on the TC 164 website: A video recording of the section meeting is also available.

The Russian Professors’ Assembly, with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, held the annual Professors’ Forum, which annually brings together over 1,500 participants. For several years, the Professors’ Forum has proven its importance and relevance, becoming a significant event in the life of the country.

The Forum fosters constructive dialogue between leaders and representatives of legislative and executive authorities, the scientific, rectoral, and academic communities, government and public figures, and business leaders to develop a strategy for strengthening the sociocultural identity and raising the level of education in Russian society.

Today, special attention is being paid to strengthening the sociocultural identity of Russian society and raising its level of education. Therefore, the main focus of the forum, which was held November 18-20, 2025, at the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Russian Academy of Education, and leading Russian universities, was education, science, and the family as the foundations of Russia’s development.

The forum included a plenary session and thematic sections: “Higher Education Development Vector: Strategy and Tactics,” “International Activities of Universities,” “Joint Meeting of the Public Councils under Rosobrnadzor, the Ministry of Education of Russia, and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia,” “University Presidents’ Section,” “Best University Practices in Educating Young People,” “State Regulation of Educational Activities,” “Scientometric Assessment of Scientific Activity, Intellectual Property, and Digital Technologies,” and more than 20 scientific and industry-specific sections. The forum also included an awards ceremony for the winners of the national Russian Professorial Assembly awards “Professor of the Year,” “Dean of the Year,” and “Rector of the Year,” established to preserve and further develop the scientific potential of Russian science and higher education, stimulate scientific and technological development, and reward outstanding researchers and educators.

On November 20, a scientific and industry section entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Science and Education” was held at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. The section was moderated by:

• A. Panarin, Director of the Center for Digital Technologies in Economics at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
• V. A. Titov, Dean of the Higher School of Cybertechnology, Mathematics, and Statistics (Faculty) at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
• T. M. Sadykov, Head of the Educational and Scientific Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, Neurotechnology, and Business Analytics at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

The following papers were presented at the section:

1. Competency-based role models in the field of artificial intelligence for higher education programs
   T. M. Sadykov, Head of the Educational and Scientific Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, Neurotechnology, and Business Analytics at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
2. The Age of AI in Education and Science: From Technological Euphoria to Systemic Challenges
   A. A. Panarin, Director of the Center for Digital Technologies in Economics, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
3. Research Institute of Applied AI and Digital Solutions, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics: How to Unite Science, Education, and Industry with AI Technologies
   A. E. Khramov, Director of the Research Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
4. The Paradox of Interaction: Neural Networks, an Analog Professor, and a Digital Student
   O. I. Cherdakov, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, International Law Institute; Professor, Department of International and Public Law, Faculty of Law, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
5. Next-Generation Explanatory Artificial Intelligence — XAI 2.0
   A. N. Averkin, Leading Researcher, Scientific Center for Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics G.V. Plekhanov
6. Artificial Intelligence: Human Resources Matter
   Yu. E. Hohlov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute of the Information Society
7. Accelerating Scientific Discoveries: AI as a Research Assistant
   S. Chernyshev, captain of the Moscow State University team at ICPC 2002 (bronze), coach of the Moscow State University team at ICPC 2003 (gold), 18 years of management experience at Yandex: academic programs (Yandex.Lyceum, Faculty of Computer Science at the Higher School of Economics, Higher School of Physics and Technology at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), HR and HR technologies, expert on international technology competitions
8. AI in Engineering: A Challenge for Academic Ethics
   A. A. Koshelev, Head of Educational Programs and Projects, IPR MEDIA Group

The work of the section made a significant contribution to the Professors’ Forum, which has proven itself over many years to be an invaluable intellectual platform for bringing together leading representatives of Russian science. The conclusions reached by the participants have already been repeatedly assessed by society as socially useful and relevant.

Source: Russian Professors’ Assembly

The fifth issue of the journal “Information Society” for 2025 has been published. The topic of the issue is Knowledge Economy. The issue discusses, among others, the following topics:

Ethical regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Cultural heritage in the digital space
Neural networks and the media sphere
Risks of cryptocurrency implementation
Predictive analytics for crime prevention
Digital advertising and local identity
Strategic analytics for BRICS cooperation
Information modeling in construction
Swarm Intelligence for modeling social processes
Digital technologies for improving competitiveness

In her address to readers “Everything Moves,” the journal’s editor-in-chief, Tatiana Ershova, wrote:

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Everything flows, everything changes (Ancient Greek: Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει) – this wisdom is familiar to us from childhood. It belongs to Heraclitus of Ephesus, and Plato preserved it for history: “Heraclitus says that everything moves and stands still, and, likening existence to the flow of a river, he adds that it is impossible to step into the same river twice.”

Our journal has been in publication for 36 years, and during this time, many things have changed in its fate. It started as the “Bulletin of the All-Union Society for Informatics and Computer Engineering” and only in 1997 received its current name. Since the first issue in 1999, it has had new publishers: the Institute of the Information Society and the Russian Engineering Academy. As a result, the journal adopted a new design, and articles were divided into thematic sections. The first three sections were: “Information Society Technologies,” “Information Society: Problems and Development Prospects,” and “Life in the Information Society.” The entire content of the initial issues, including advertising, fit into just over 60 pages.

In 2008, the journal changed its design: a specific picture was now created for each issue. The number of thematic sections increased to five. Since 2011, we have maintained the design we use to this day. It is strict and concise, with each year having its own base cover color, and each issue having its own color for the title bar. The number of main thematic sections has grown to ten.

Since 2020, our journal has become an online publication and is published exclusively on the Web. The pandemic has radically changed our lives, and this inevitably impacted the publishing process. Since then, authors have formatted their articles themselves using an established template, and the journal is published under an open Creative Commons license. Authors now bear full responsibility for the quality of their texts, independently providing the necessary editing and proofreading; the editorial staff strictly adheres to the principle of a “peer review sieve,” through which no questionable or scientifically insignificant content can slip. Incidentally, the length of an issue has now doubled, reaching over 150 pages, and this is another very significant change.

Over the past five years, as technological and socioeconomic developments have progressed, the number of substantive sections has also almost doubled. The editorial staff has made no attempt to tie them to any existing classification systems or to create a new, streamlined system. Our sectioning system evolves, so to speak, “as it goes.” It is fairly conservative and doesn’t respond to every fad, but sometimes there are times when a new section is needed.

This is precisely what happened during the preparation of the fifth issue in 2025. A historical article on the genesis of accounting information technologies, proposed at the beginning of the year and included in this issue after all the necessary procedures, inspired us to create a section titled “History of the Information Society Development.” Another article, examining the role of digital technologies in the development of specific professional competencies, prompted us to consider creating a comprehensive section: “Use of the Information Society Technologies.” It’s surprising even to us that it hasn’t existed before. Clearly, our section will evolve as new and interesting articles appear. And we’re very happy about that.

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The full text of the issue can be found on the journal’s website.

The Artificial Intelligence Almanac is a regular collection of analytical materials on the artificial intelligence field in Russia and globally. It is prepared by the NTI Artificial Intelligence Competence Center at MIPT. Each issue provides an overview of the current state of the AI field in Russia and globally, including key technologies and applications, key companies, universities, and individuals. The articles in the Almanac are written by leading experts in their fields.

The 14th issue of the AI Index contains a report summarizing the results of 2024. IIS partnered with the center in preparing the “Science” section (pages 5-10 of the Almanac).

The Almanac is available on the website of the NTI Artificial Intelligence Competence Center (in Russian).

The International Technology Congress is the central event in the Russian Federation for promoting the concept of international cooperation and non-resource exports as a development strategy for Russia. It is a platform for joint development, coordinating long-term goals and projects, strengthening partnerships, and promoting domestic software and electronics, telecommunications, sovereign critical infrastructure, and information systems. The 2025 Congress was held at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center.

Technical Committee 164 has been a partner of the International Technology Congress since 2024. On September 17, 2025, TC 164 / ITC 566 “Artificial Intelligence” organized the section “Artificial Intelligence: A Space of Technological Trust.” The section “Artificial Intelligence: A Space of Technological Trust” generated keen interest among attendees of the International Technology Congress. The speakers’ presentations are available on the TC 164 website (in Russian).