**The President emphasised the importance of preserving and developing small towns and villages**
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> For a country as vast as Russia, we cannot allow our territories to become depopulated. This is why we need to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis and find an optimal, balanced solution, taking into account the opportunities offered by modern technology, the internet, artificial intelligence and other IT capabilities. It turns out that by making use of all these opportunities, people can work effectively while living in remote areas, rather than everyone needing to live in cities with populations of millions.


See more on the [Kremlin’s official website](http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/80500).