Dmitry Grigorenko participated in the WEF-2026 session dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence technologies

Published on: 2026-09-02

Source: Government of the Russian Federation –

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Deputy Chairman of the Government – Head of the Government Office Dmitry Grigorenko participated in a session of the Eastern Economic Forum dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence technologies. The Deputy Prime Minister spoke about Russia’s approach to AI regulation, as well as further measures that the Government is currently working on.

As of September 1, part of the provisions of the law supporting the development of artificial intelligence in Russia came into effect. It introduced the concept of AI into Russian legislation for the first time, defined the criteria for national and sovereign AI models, as well as the priority rights of developers of AI solutions created based on Russian models to receive support measures. The Deputy Prime Minister noted that currently, active development of support measures is underway on the platform of working groups of the government subcommittee on AI, both for developers of AI solutions and for companies implementing the technology. The discussion is held with the direct participation of business representatives.

Dmitry Grigorenko stated that the Government is currently working on identifying cases in which the use of exclusively national and sovereign AI models is permissible. It is anticipated that the transition to Russian AI will primarily occur in such areas as public administration and the provision of public services, medicine, education, and security. Currently, subordinate legislation is being developed to establish specific fields for the application of national and sovereign models.

“We adhere to a balanced approach in AI regulation. On one hand, the law does not prohibit the use of foreign AI. On the other hand, it explicitly states that government support will be available specifically to developers of Russian AI solutions. They will receive priority conditions for market development. Today, the race for AI technologies has reached an international level: every country supports the promotion of its own AI solutions. This is a matter of digital sovereignty, and the stable and secure operation of key state systems,” said Dmitry Grigorenko.

Vladimir Solodov (Governor of Kamchatka Krai), Tigran Khudaverdyan (Board member of JSC “Yandex Rus”), Anton Gorelkin (Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy and Information Technology), Alexander Zharov (General Director of Gazprom-Media Holding), Alexey Shpilman (Director of AI Technology Development at T-Technology) also participated in the discussion on the development of Russian AI. The moderator was Alexandra Kosharnitskaya – head of the working group “Media Industry and Copyright” (First Deputy General Director – Director of the Information Directorate – Editor-in-Chief of JSC “NTV Television Company”).

During the session, the speakers discussed key current challenges in various areas of artificial intelligence development. The CEO of Gazprom-Media Holding, Alexander Zharov, stated that resolving the issue of using content for training neural networks could be possible within the next two years. According to him, the problem of balancing the rights of copyright holders and developers remains one of the most complex in the industry: it is technically almost impossible to verify exactly which content influenced the training of the model, so the solution must be comprehensive.

“It is important to differentiate content – from live news broadcasts to feature films, their value as IP objects varies, but all of them are created by the efforts of people. I am confident that balance will be found, and, in my estimation, this will take about two years,” noted Alexander Zharov.

The First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy and Information Technologies, Anton Gorelkin, emphasized the problem of the spread of AI-generated content and the need to distinguish between content created by AI and content created by humans.

“I believe that content created by humans should be labeled first and foremost. I am convinced that human authorship will be a premium attribute of content, as invaluable resources such as time and creative energy have been spent on it. According to legislation, Russian platforms must provide the ability to indicate the origin of content, and, in my opinion, they should also introduce an option ‘created by a human.’ Our common civilizational task is to ensure that human creativity does not drown in a sea of mediocre generations,” said Anton Gorelkin.

Tigran Khudaverdyan, a member of the board of directors of JSC Yandex Rus, noted that the development of artificial intelligence is determined not only by the origin of a specific model but primarily by the presence in the country of specialists capable of creating and developing such technologies. According to him, Russia has a strong school of machine learning and world-class specialists.

“We sometimes forget that all of this is created by people. Today, as a country, we have a huge advantage: we are one of those countries where there are many world-class specialists who know how to train artificial intelligence and create an environment in which it can operate. As long as such people exist in the country, we will have our own artificial intelligence,” said Tigran Khudaverdyan.

Alexey Shpilman, Director of AI Technology Development at T-Technologies, noted that for a technological breakthrough in areas truly important to the state, such as healthcare, it is necessary to carefully expand AI access to patients’ personal data.

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