A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

Dmitry Govorov

Dmitry Govorov

Vice President for Government Relations and Strategic Communications, Russian Copper Company
Quotes
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
The New Stars of the Far East: The Evolution of Major Projects
For a subsoil user, it is obvious that the priority is the place where the minerals are located. It is a technical issue, but for the Far East, it is a crucial one. ... For the Far East, the priority is the issue of synchronizing infrastructure construction and project implementation. You can't build a factory and then pull the network out to it in six months. It won't work. We have a serious field, the amount of investment to build a factory and start the development is 250 billion rubles, we have already invested more than 50 billion. ... Without the support of the state, it is impossible to implement such projects
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Far East: Resource Frontier or Driver of Growth?
Mining is a high-tech industry. I would like to mention high-tech processing operations, like the one in Kyshtym that makes copper foil. This foil is used in lithium-ion batteries and microplates. <…> This is not a large facility, with an annual capacity of only 1,200 tonnes. However, 30% of it is used domestically. <…> I believe we need to shape the demand, develop domestic operations of lithium-ion batteries, for example. It will help develop high-tech industries and launch facilities in the Far East