As the head of the Republic of Chuvashia, he is directly involved in the resettlement of illegally displaced (deported) citizens and children of Ukraine from the temporarily occupied territories on the territory of the russian federation. He is responsible for the implementation of putin's policy on the so-called ‘evacuation’ of Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to temporary accommodation centres, with the aim of spreading information about the ‘peacekeeping and humanitarian’ purposes of the so-called ‘evacuation’, trying to create a demonstrably positive image of russia as a ‘peacekeeping country’.