INSOR (abbreviated , Institute of Contemporary Development), known until March 2008 as RIO Center (, Center for Development of an Information Society), in a

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-based nonprofit

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affiliated with former

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, who, as of July 31, 2008, heads INSOR's

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. It is the only non-government organization where Medvedev retained formal influence after the

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. Daily management of INSOR is delegated to Igor Yurgens, vice-president and spokesman of

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History

RIO Center, established in 2003, initially focused on the ways of modernizing Russia into an

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, moving into

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area when these projects emerged in 2005. INSOR was officially launched by Medvedev March 18, 2008 – after the election but prior to his inauguration. The organization declares a long-term goal of modernizing national social services within the framework of four

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, Affordable Housing, Quality Education and Agricultural Development - as well as the Demographic Sustainability program. Medvedev declared that "

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's government approach. Earlier in 2008 INSOR launched an

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for the youth, mir4you.ru. It was criticized for a formal approach, lack of own exclusive content, massive

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and numerous factual errors due to unscrupulous use of outdated "borrowed" texts.

Personnel

INSOR's board of 12 includes, along with Medvedev, state servants (

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, etc.) and academics ( Yevgeny Velikhov,

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). There are no active businesspeople (with a probable exception of

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). Executive staff is primarily academic (, Vladimir Mau etc.)

References

External links

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Official site of RIO Center (Russian only)
{{Improve categories, date=January 2023 Think tanks based in Russia Organizations established in 2008

History

Personnel

See also

References

External links