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The Ministry of economy and representatives of NGOs of the Russian Federation yesterday at a Political forum, the UN has submitted alternative reports on the achievement of a country’s sustainable development goals (sdgs). While the authors of the government report stressed the successful integration of sdgs in national development projects in the country and stated on the special success in achieving three of them, experts from civil society appreciated the efforts of the Russian Federation as the minimum. However, both documents use the data, reflecting changes in politics and society after the epidemic of the coronavirus, and do not reflect any positive trends in the public administration, or negative in the economy.Yesterday for the first time Russia reported to the UN in efforts to achieve sustainable development goals — a report at the session of the Political high-level forum on sustainable development, the UN introduced the head of Ministry of Economics Maxim Reshetnikov. So-called voluntary national survey on the Russian Federation to achieve the sdgs of the UN was drawn up with the participation of the analytical center under the government of Russia, economy Ministry, foreign Ministry, Rosstat and a number of expert organizations. Insights from this document, in General, positively evaluate the efforts of Russia, was in contradiction with the information alternative report, which was compiled and presented by the representatives of various Russian NGOs.We will remind, the program document of the UN in this area, “Transforming our world: an Agenda for sustainable development for the period till 2030” the global contains 17 goals and 169 related tasks, which relate to environment, social protection, energy and law. As follows from the government’s report, the majority of activities that provide for the sdgs included in the national projects of the Russian Federation implements from 2018 to 2024. As the authors of the report, work on projects, and hence on sdgs was successful on all fronts, the greatest results were achieved in the eradication of poverty, improving the quality of education and work and economic growth. So, in 2018 the government’s efforts have been lifted out of poverty 500 million people, which is allowed, according to preliminary data for 2019, reduce the population with incomes below the subsistence minimum to 18.1 million, or 12.3% of the total population. To improve the quality of education, according to the report, contributed to the emergence of additional projects of teaching different groups of students. These include projects under the auspices of the “Initiative future” of the Foundation “SKOLKOVO” and the Association “national platform for open education.” Finally, the achievement of sdgs in the field of economic growth, according to the authors of the report show the growth of Russia’s GDP in 2018-2019, reducing unemployment and increasing opportunities for small and medium enterprises.Authoryou alternative report noted that in 2015, the sdgs have not been given due attention in the strategic planning of development of the country, nor in the Executive power at national, regional and local levels. “Individual achievement”, according to them, it can be noted only in the sphere of social policy development, however, and there’s a large part of the tasks of the LRC remains unfulfilled. In General to work on all LRC of the Russian Federation it is necessary to change sectoral legislation to create a more efficient program of modernization of the industry infrastructure and to increase the funding of public services and measures to support the private sector.Although you can find General suggestions in the reports with diametrically opposed assessments of the situation in Russia is difficult and so, in the situation of the spread of coronavirus both of these documents are outdated, since neither the first nor the second do not take into account the impact of the epidemic on the policy and society of the Russian Federation. It is, on the one hand, reduced incomes, increased unemployment and bankrupt a number of industries. On the other hand, Russia has initiated a review of state policy in part the national objectives in favor of the development of the welfare state (see “Kommersant” on 14 July), the Russian health care has collected a record amount of private donations, a great incentive was given to the development projects in the field of digitalization — from the translation into electronic form of social benefits until new regulation of remote work. As a result, at the end of the year the situation in Russia may undergo more significant changes than noted in the reports on the implementation of the sdgs both government and civil society representatives.Anastasia Manolovici of the Center for social-labor rights of Yulia Ostrovskaya said: the purpose of the evaluation of the implementation of the sustainable development goals of the UN and the authorities, and by NGOs and civil society does not dispute the third sector with the state, and the organization of a dialogue with him. “Yesterday, the UN held presentation of two reports on the achievement of the Russian Federation of the sdgs. The first was compiled by experts from state institutions, the second appeared with the efforts of NGOs and civil society activists. Our organization, for example, participated in creating the Chapter’s achievement in the Russian Federation gender equality. Our estimates are, of course, very different from that presented in the government review, but the purpose of their submission is not a dispute with the state. On the contrary, it is necessary to establish a dialogue between the state and society, and we aim to provide recommendations to the public sector, and also search of ways of cooperation with him. And to what extent we heard in the long term we can hope that there will be some form of a joint work, in particular, with the analytical center for the government. This very��ed, will give a deeper understanding of the sdgs and ways to achieve them, and us, and representatives of the government,” she says.