Overview
- President Vladimir Putin phoned seven-year-old Igor from the Moscow region to wish him a happy New Year after the boy’s visit to the Museum of the World Ocean was arranged, and Igor said he would send the president a painting.
- A new wave of fulfillments on January 5–6 included Minister Irek Faizullin gifting a tubing sled and radios to two brothers in the Smolensk region, Valeriy Falkov providing a non-programmable calculator and study support to a Tomsk student, and Anton Siluanov arranging a meeting between 13-year-old swimmer Timur and Olympic champion Roman Kostomarov.
- Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin delivered a bicycle and an illuminated world map to two sisters in Horlivka (DPR), and Yuri Trutnev invited an 11-year-old from Chukotka to a Moscow venue to see and feed a capybara.
- Other reported grants included Alexander Kozlov taking twin seven-year-olds behind the scenes of the TV show Good Night, Little Ones!, Anton Kotyakov giving an aspiring pilot an SSJ100 cockpit experience in Petrozavodsk, Denis Manturov hosting a medical master class at the Sklifosovsky Institute, Andrey Nikitin helping a nine-year-old achieve a first scuba dive, and Anton Alikhanov gifting a toy delivery rover and a Lego set to two Moscow brothers.
- Organized by the Movement of Firsts with support from Rosmolodezh, the campaign prioritizes children with disabilities, those from low-income and SVO families, and children from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, as the Russian Orthodox Church concurrently promotes its Kindness at Christmas initiative through January 19.