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.

Konstantin Ernst

Konstantin Ernst

General Director, Channel One Russia
Quotes
15.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
Domestic Brands: New Opportunities for Growth
Last year, when the world changed, we realized that a remarkable opportunity appeared to direct our compatriots’ attention to their homeland. Given that we sat behind the iron curtain for so long, people spent the last 30 years enjoying the fact that the world had opened up to them. In the process, they forgot about their own country. <...> People believe in foreign brands but not their own. That can make it much harder to promote Russian brands
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Have Things Changed for Good? Rebooting the Content Market
There are no reliable official measurements in our country [of the popularity and demand for content. – Ed.] The industry, the Internet industry, the television industry, the platforms, they should get together and say: "Let us zero in, there is different technology out there. Let us choose one, and there are people out there – let us choose the right people. Let them, under the supervision of industry representatives, build a functioning system
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Self-Regulation vs. State Control. How to Stimulate the Consumption of Legal Content?
In order to actually defeat pirates, it is not enough to cut them off the search engine traffic – we need to cut their financing. Now their main source of income is casino ads. We need to block websites that feature such ads. There are draft amendments to Federal Law No. 149 ‘On Information’ implying prohibition of casino advertisements on the territory of the Russian Federation
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Self-Regulation vs. State Control. How to Stimulate the Consumption of Legal Content?
There are no tools for protecting live broadcasts. Copyright holders spend huge sums, for example, on sporting content, but it is broadcast by pirates. So far, this issue has not been agreed on by Internet platforms