News – Russian Government

Since the beginning of 2025, inspectors have carried out 201 thousand inspections throughout Russia. This is 5 thousand fewer inspections than during the same period last year, when the moratorium was still in effect. Moreover, 44 thousand of them are inspections of government facilities and social institutions. Deputy Prime Minister – Chief of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko spoke about this at the All-Russian Forum of Control Bodies – 2025 in Krasnoyarsk.

“As of 2025, the moratorium on inspections has ended. At this point, we have completely transferred the scope of control and supervision to a risk-based approach. During scheduled inspections, inspectors only come to extremely high-risk and high-risk facilities. For facilities with a lower risk category, mandatory preventive visits are carried out. Thanks to this, the administrative burden on business in Russia has remained at the level of recent years. Inspections in their classical sense became 5.5 times less than in 2019. At the same time, the security of citizens remains at the proper level,” commented Dmitry Grigorenko.

Today, the inspector does not have to go to the controlled object to obtain information about possible violations. A large amount of data is accumulated in various government information systems. In 2025, inspectors began to use artificial intelligence technologies in their work to quickly and accurately analyze them. Risk indicators that will work on the basis of AI have already been selected. Risk indicators are a set of data about the controlled object. If the state of this data deviates from the norm, then this is a signal about the need to conduct an unscheduled check. Artificial intelligence will help inspectors constantly monitor the status of such data.

Following the session, Dmitry Grigorenko set the controllers the task of introducing AI into at least three departmental information systems.

The Deputy Prime Minister also outlined the minimum scope of control and supervisory activities that each department should carry out using unmanned aerial vehicles. Today, the ability to carry out inspections using UAVs has been normatively established for such types of control, for example, land control, construction supervision, control in the field of landscaping, and hunting control. In these types of control, at least 10% of activities should be carried out in 2026 with the connection of UAVs. Over the nine months of 2025, 400 inspections and almost 3 thousand preventive measures were carried out using drones in Russia.

Dmitry Grigorenko also said that a legislative norm is being prepared that will allow inspectors to use data obtained using UAVs as a separate basis for conducting unscheduled inspections.