The «Soul of Russia» prize was created by the Russian Ministry for Culture in 2002, to be awarded for exceptional artistic achievement and contribution to the national creative effort.

The Yeltsin Fund, in association with the companies FotoTASS and Soyuz, has put together and published an extraordinary photo album; entitled ‘Our Country in the Nineties’, it is an official chronicle of life in Russia during the 1990s.

Dmitri Shostakovich was a witness to the birth and the death of a regime, by some miracle he managed to escape the terrible fate that was shared by so many of his countrymen, he experienced ostracism and triumph, visited many countries. His hugely eventful life could easily be turned into an historical drama, a novel and a detective story. In 2006, thanks to the help and support of the Yeltsin Fund, new director Oksana Dvornichenko released the film The Journey of Dmitri Shostakovich. The starting point for the film was the documentary footage of Shostakovich’s journey in 1973 from Europe to America on the liner «Mikhail Lermontov».

The Yeltsin Fund took part in the creation of a five-episode film series, entitled «Russian Liberty». These films were made in honour of the 100th anniversary of Russian democracy, seen in the context of Russian history and from a wider, European perspective.

The Valdaysk region is home to over nine thousand pensioners, all honourable and deserving people, many of whom have, nonetheless, fallen on hard times and are in desperate need of care and attention.

The «Konkovo Centre» is a state-run establishment, located in the Moscow region, created to help children, who are in need of psychological, medical and social help. In 2006 the Centre, with the support of the Yeltsin Fund, began a programme called «My choice», aimed at helping adolescents that show signs of anti-social behaviour.

The Yeltsin Fund took part in the building of a chapel on the burial site of the Russian astronaut Adrian Nikolayev.

On May 4, 2005, with the help of the Fund of the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, a unique memorial was unveiled in Demyansk. It is a monument to all the children who died during the Great Patriotic War.

The Yeltsin Fund took part in the arrangement of lecture in Moscow by the former governor of Alaska, Walter J. Hickel; who on the 23rd March 2006 gave a talk about Alaska as an economic model that combined elements of free market economy and public ownership and about his ideas for the development of Alaska and of other northern territories.

The Yeltsin Fund has closely worked with the Field Hockey Federation for three years now. We have regularly held teenage tournaments for a prize awarded by the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin.

In late April, 2005, the Yeltsin Fund together with the Russian Culture Fund in Paris held special celebrations devoted to the anniversary of the Great Victory and the publication of the book written by the French publicist Elena Zholi «The Price of Our Victory». The book was published by Cherche-Midi Publishing House and timed to the anniversary.