SIRIUS /Federal territory/, May 11. /TASS/. The Sirius educational center for talented and gifted children holds talks with the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) to set up a similar center in Donetsk in the near future, Yelena Shmeleva, chairwoman of the federal territory’s council, said on Wednesday.

"We now have schoolchildren and students from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, who do specialized programs and intensive modules both at the Sirius center and the Sirius university," Shmeleva said at a meeting of the Talent and Success Educational Foundation’s Board of Trustees chaired by President Vladimir Putin.

"We could now use all the material we have, both pedagogical and educational at all levels of education, in our future cooperation. We have already come into contact with those republic’s leaderships and educational institutions, and are holding discussion. We are negotiating the opening of a similar center in Donetsk in the near future with the leadership of the Donetsk People's Republic," she said.

Earlier, Shmeleva reported that 63 educational centers based on the model of Sirius function in Russian regions.