Russia Launches an Artificial Intelligence Development Center

Dialogue and Analytics

In 2025, Russia established the Artificial Intelligence Development Center under the federal government. The core mission of the new center is to facilitate structured dialogue between the digital industry and the state in order to accelerate and improve the quality of AI adoption across the economy and public administration. Experts note that the Center’s mandate goes far beyond collecting opinions and requests from businesses and regional authorities. Market analysis is also a central part of its remit.

Based on this analysis, the Center will select the most effective model for a specific task and then scale it further. Some solutions will evolve into standardized services that entire regions or individual government agencies can connect to. These include rapid processing of citizen inquiries, document management models and geospatial solutions. Best practices are being consolidated on a dedicated platform that forms part of the already operating Digital Region portal.

AI-Powered Public Services

The newly created Center opens up significant long-term opportunities. Demand for these capabilities is expected to grow steadily in the near future. Assessing the effectiveness of digital public services is a relatively new but highly in-demand and timely field. With government support, the scope of the Center’s work is set to expand further. This is especially true as new AI-driven solutions continue to emerge for individual services and for bundled offerings, including so-called life situations on the national public services portal. As these tools spread, citizen feedback on their real-world performance will require systematic analysis and interpretation.

Judging by current trends, the Center is well positioned to become the mechanism that enables public services to be more targeted and more effective. Combined with ongoing improvements in digital assistants and chatbots, this progress could lead within a few years to a situation where most social and administrative requests can be resolved without direct interaction with human staff.

Center's unique role is to overcome fragmentation between regions, businesses and research institutes, where efforts diverge. The key benefit is the scaling of proven solutions and the creation of unified standards instead of duplicating efforts

Vladislav Laptev

Chief Innovation Officer at Forktech

Regional Experience

Several regions have already developed their own approaches to AI deployment. In the Republic of Tatarstan, for example, AI tools are used to monitor the implementation of national development projects. In the Sakhalin region, AI is being systematically embedded across nearly all areas of public administration, including environmental management and tourism.

A similar picture can be seen in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where AI solutions are becoming integral to the operation of key sectors. One notable regional achievement is the deployment of video analytics systems that monitor housing and utilities infrastructure, public order and safety, as well as public transport operations. AI has raised performance in these areas to a new level by enabling incidents to be detected rapidly and corrective actions to be taken immediately.

In Moscow, AI solutions are actively applied in healthcare. Importantly, these services are available not only to city residents but also to people in other Russian regions.

A Central Mediator

Despite the advanced state of Russian AI development, a number of risks remain that could hinder the successful rollout of new technologies. Chief among these are issues related to data storage and processing, as well as the need to build additional data centers. These challenges now also fall within the Center’s scope of responsibility. Through the feedback service on the public services portal, citizen inquiries will be analyzed and concrete proposals developed to address identified problems.

Given the strategic importance of the Center’s work, it supports the implementation of national priorities in AI development in line with Russia’s long-term development goals. Its activities are therefore expected to receive backing at the highest level. As a result, the Center is likely to become a key and indispensable mediator between IT professionals and public administration within the next few years. Taking into account the pace of digitalization in the public sector, the Center is positioned not only to accelerate this process but also to make it safer, higher quality and more effective.