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.

Alexander Kakhidze

Alexander Kakhidze

General Director, FinInvest
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12.09.2023
EEF 2023
Rail Logistics in a New Age: Realities, Challenges, and Opportunities
Of course, today, empty fitting platforms should not be going to the Far East under any pretext. We must maximize the use of gondola cars. On 29 September last year, we sent the first container train from the Far East in gondola cars to the Apparatnaya station in the Sverdlovsk Region […] More than a thousand such shipments have already been made, which has resulted in savings of more than 7 million tonnes that were additionally transported as exports to the Far East
12.09.2023
EEF 2023
Rail Logistics in a New Age: Realities, Challenges, and Opportunities
Today, [the situation] with capacity is very difficult, and it isn’t likely to get any better in the near future because the cargo base is larger than transport capabilities. We must and will make more logical schemes
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