Overview
- Elena Shmeleva presented President Vladimir Putin with a symbolic stone representing the new Sirius school and talent center in Almaty and reported that construction preparations and program development have begun.
- Shmeleva said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed adding a Sirius school in Astana following his meetings on the project.
- Putin said he is confident the Kazakhstan initiative will succeed, pointing to methodologies that have been tested in practice and to prior understandings he reached with Tokayev.
- A ceremony on January 17 marked the laying of the first stone for the Almaty school and a center for working with talented children and youth during the I Summit of talents.
- Planned instruction will use integrated programs in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and interdisciplinary studies, taught in the state language and in Russian.