UPDATE – FEBRUARY 2026:
In late 2023, President Vladimir Putin signed a sweeping 40-page decree updating Russia’s National AI Strategy through 2030. Since then, Russia has moved beyond strategy revisions into more centralized governance and implementation planning. In November 2025, Putin directed the creation of a centralized AI headquarters operating under the Government and Presidential Administration to coordinate national AI development, monitor implementation metrics, and oversee sectoral execution of the 2030 strategy. This move signals a shift from distributed oversight to a more vertically integrated governance model.
The Kremlin also ordered development of a national plan for deploying generative AI across industries and regional governments. The plan aligns with the strategy’s target of generating more than 11 trillion rubles in AI-driven GDP impact by 2030. In parallel, the Ministry of Digital Development has advanced proposals for broader generative AI deployment within public administration. These include regulatory experiments and draft frameworks finalized following public consultations in late 2025.
On the funding side, Russia allocated approximately 7.7 billion rubles to its federal “Artificial Intelligence” project in 2025, part of a multi-year digitalization program extending through 2027. Investments focus on AI research centers, workforce development (with a goal of training 15,500 AI specialists by 2030), healthcare applications, cybersecurity, and computing infrastructure. In addition, state-aligned firms such as Sberbank and Yandex continue expanding large language model capabilities alongside government objectives.
ORIGINAL NEWS STORY:
Russia Updates National AI Strategy
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a 40-page Presidential decree to update the national strategy of developing AI. The document introduces amendments to the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence Development in the Russian Federation up to 2030.
Decree Changes
The updated strategy establishes AI development as a core component of Russia’s national data economy program through 2030. Federal agencies are instructed to align sector-specific plans with national AI objectives. Meanwhile, regional governments and state-owned enterprises are encouraged to incorporate AI development into their digital transformation strategies.
The decree defines key principles for AI development, including protection of human rights, technological sovereignty, national security, and balanced public-private cooperation. It also introduces updated objectives focused on expanding access to AI infrastructure, supporting research and workforce development, accelerating enterprise adoption, and strengthening regulatory and governance frameworks.
New performance metrics were introduced to track progress, including measures related to computing capacity, GDP contribution from AI, workforce readiness, research output, enterprise adoption rates, and public trust.
The decree acknowledges ongoing challenges, including computing resource shortages, reliance on imported hardware, talent gaps, regulatory barriers, and cybersecurity risks. To address these issues, the strategy calls for expanding cloud computing access, supporting domestic semiconductor and telecommunications development, improving data availability and quality, and strengthening collaboration between research institutions and industry.
Additional measures include financial support for AI developers, commercialization of research, development of open-source tools, and creation of centralized data and solution repositories to support AI innovation across sectors.
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