Good afternoon.
Let us talk today about additional measures to develop the Far East, but we will start with a more urgent event.
It is drawing to a close, but we need to review it and consider what to do with the World Cup facilities in the future.
Let us talk about the preliminary results. Ms Golodets, please.
[Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets] Mr President, ladies and gentlemen,
Let me recall that the decision to hold the World Cup was made in December 2010, and it took place from June 14 through July 15, 2018.
32 countries competed in 64 matches.
This tournament has broken many records in various areas.
3,031,768 people watched the matches.
The attendance was high at all matches and almost reached 100 percent (99.8–99.9).
About 806,000 foreign citizens received Fan ID cards, and in all, about 3 million foreigners visited this country over this period.
The highest number of tickets among foreigners were bought by fans from the United States, Brazil and Germany.
These three countries led in the number of guests.
The World Cup was visited by 25 presidents, seven representatives of different monarchies and 11 heads of government.
About 7.7 million people came to the fan zones.
The championship was a turning point in breaking a great many stereotypes about our country.
This is probably the first time that the people who attended the championship were able to form first-hand opinions about our country.
Several million positive testimonials have changed the image of Russia as an open, technologically advanced and hospitable country.
Even absolutely anti-Russian media, such as 'The Times,' admitted that this championship was unprecedented in its beauty.
This is a major achievement.
The development of infrastructure is, of course, the most important achievement for Russia,
with 269 new infrastructure sites built as part of preparations for the championship, which will continue to be used in the future.
This includes 12 stadiums and 95 new training grounds, of which, according to the new Championship Legacy Concept, 64 will be used to promote children's football in our country.
The airports in the 11 host cities have been renovated, and a new airport, Platov, was built.
The new airports led to tripling passenger traffic in Volgograd, and doubling it in Samara, Rostov, Saransk and Yekaterinburg.
Russian Railways' rolling stock received major upgrades: 75 new trains were purchased and 13 terminals and seven stations upgraded.
This represents a major boost for expanding tourism in our country.
We expect the infrastructural changes, including the construction of new hotels,
which increased by 15 percent in the host cities, to provide a stable base for higher numbers of tourists, both domestic and international.
Importantly, an innovative technology – the Fan ID card – was developed and proved its consistency.
Mr President, you have already decided to extend Fan ID validity until the end of the year.
However, we would like you to issue additional instructions.
We discussed this when working on the Concept, but we want the Fan ID approach to be extended to other cultural events held in our country.
We will soon be holding the Student Games in Krasnoyarsk, and next year is the year of a major musical event in our culture, the Tchaikovsky Competition.
This technology would very much help us accommodate guests, especially from other countries.
I discussed this with Mr Medvedev yesterday.
It is a good thing to do, so we will go ahead and do it.
Of course, the festivities would be incomplete without our team's success.
The remarkable performance by the Russian team deserves our gratitude as fans.
We hope that together with the football professionals, we will be able to lay a new platform for promoting children's and youth football in our country.
The concept is in place, and we will report on it in the coming days.
Mr Kolokoltsev, what about security?
[Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev] Mr President, colleagues,
The Russian Ministry of the Interior has fulfilled in full its task of ensuring public safety during the World Cup.
We used over 100,000 of our employees.
The relevant measures were taken during the football matches and Fan Fests.
Russian police officers were polite and tactful.
Fans who committed minor offences received minor penalties.
The International Police Cooperation Centre and the tourist police performed well.
Suffice it to say that due to interaction with our foreign colleagues and information exchanges, over 3,000 foreign citizens with previous sports event related violations were denied entry into Russia.
They were not allowed here, and this also improved the safety of the tournament.
Due to our measures, no serious violations of public order were recorded during the World Cup.
Given that foreign tourists with Fan IDs may be staying in Russia until July 25, we continue to operate in an enhanced mode.
I would like to note that the introduction of the Fan ID cards and the system of access control helped in the efficient provision of public order.
These were developed in Russia and were praised by both FIFA and the fans themselves.
I would like to ask you, Mr President, to give instructions to preserve the security infrastructure at the stadiums in order to use it during other sports events.
All right.
Mrs Skvortsova, what can you say for the Healthcare Ministry?
[Healthcare Minister Veronika Skvortsova] Mr President, colleagues,
A medical aid scheme with a response time of under five minutes was deployed in all 17 Russian regions where World Cup events were held and teams stayed and trained.
In total, 6,500 healthcare workers provided medical aid, with 4,500 working directly at the facilities.
Everyone had additional training in line with the FIFA-approved emergency aid protocols.
Volunteer and student medics helped us a lot, including in emergency situations when translation was needed.
There were 170 stationary medical offices at 12 stadiums and in fan zones, with 280 mobile medical teams patrolling spectator and festival zones.
Each team was comprised of three specialists: an emergency medicine specialist, a trauma specialist and a paramedic.
There also were 202 paramedic teams, including 68 intensive care units, for medical evacuation.
Medical aid for the entire FIFA team, including footballers, journalists and spectators, was provided at 147 medical institutions, including 14 hospitals authorised by FIFA.
During the World Cup, over 15,000 people, including 1,300 children, sought medical assistance.
Participants in entertainment programmes, volunteers and people working at the facilities were seen most often, over 7,000; followed by spectators at 6,879.
In addition, medical aid was provided to 547 FIFA team members, including 57 footballers and 366 journalists.
Aid was provided on the spot in 92 percent of the cases, while eight percent of the patients were taken to inpatient facilities and 277 were hospitalised.
I would like to note that all the host cities provided medical aid fully and in good time, including hi-tech medical care in emergencies, such as endovascular therapy for acute coronary syndromes
(the patients have already been discharged, with only one remaining at the inpatient facility, but improving).
A patient with a sudden subarachnoid haemorrhage into the ventricular system had most complicated emergency neurosurgery in Samara:
his life was saved, and two weeks later, the patient went home with almost no neurological defects.
A foreigner who had a car accident in Saransk was operated on by two surgical teams, with a very good outcome, and also went home.
Of 57 footballers who sought medical attention, 53 received it on the spot, four were hospitalised and two were operated on due to various traumas.
The Russian national football team received medical and psychological treatment according to their individual support plans designed by the Russian Federal Biomedical Agency.
I would like to say, Mr President, that the FIFA medical inspection noted the high standards of medical support during the championship.
We received a letter from FIFA Medical Officer Efraim Kramer saying that there had been nothing like it in all of FIFA history
and that he recommends our standards be used in other countries.
He has already sent a medical delegation from Qatar, the next country to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
People are studying and borrowing from our experience, to be able to use it in organising and hosting the 2022 World Cup.
The festival was reallya success.
We will return to this, especially in the context ofusing the World Cup legacy.
Now I would like to again thank everyone who took part in organising this grand event.
This applies to both those who are here now and those who are not.
Mr Mutko, I would like to express my gratitude to you.
You are not directly involved in this work at present but everyone knows that you were there at the start of this journey and did a lot to prepare for this championship.
Festivals have their place, but we still have current matters that demand urgent attention.
I mean, first of all, the aftermath of floods in several regions, in many regions actually.
In some places, water reached not just critical but record levels.
Let us speak about this.
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