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.

Talia Khabrieva

Talia Khabrieva

Director, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation; Deputy President, Russian Academy of Sciences
Quotes
26.06.2024
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2024
Regulating the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education and Science
Artificial intelligence can be employed as a tool for legal regulation. The legal grounds for this have already been established. <...> The move towards using artificial intelligence as a tool for legal regulation is an interesting one. This is happening, for example, in relation to justice at the level of magistrates. In Belgorod in 2021, a remarkable experiment was conducted – judicial orders were generated using AI. <...> The instrumental nature of artificial intelligence is already recognized... and it must be used only as an auxiliary tool. However, there remains the risk that it may become the main one
26.06.2024
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2024
Regulating the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education and Science
We need to define what is meant by artificial intelligence, and decide upon a model of legal regulation for it. <...> A revolutionary proposal has been put forward whereby artificial intelligence should be considered an independent subject of the law. <...> At one time, when society transitioned to a slave-owning system, a person became a thing. Now we may be witness to a thing becoming a person. <...> Fortunately, this is not the only proposal being put forward. <...> I believe that this is an artificially imposed agenda, a kind of scientific and professional fake. We need our own agenda in this regard. <...> At first glance, one might consider artificial intelligence to be something covered by exclusive rights. <...> It is the result of intellectual activity, but it is not always subject to protection by copyright and exclusive rights, which are not always sufficient. <...> The question arises: are these norms sufficient to regulate artificial intelligence technologies as an object of law? Clearly, we are inclined to think that they are not. That’s the first thing. And secondly: are civil law norms sufficient in principle for the purposes of regulation? Here, public-law interest plays a very significant role. Therefore, there may be combined (as opposed to comprehensive) legal regulation
26.06.2024
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2024
Regulating the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education and Science
Artificial intelligence is developing at a rapid rate. <...> The conservative sector of legal science has also swiftly shifted its position from one of misunderstanding, non-recognition, and even attempts to reject it, to piecemeal mastery, and then to the comprehensive use of these technologies in law. In principle, we already understand which relationships should be regulated, and what can be understood through taking into account the unique nature of these technologies in terms of the very concept
27.06.2024
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2024
A Digital Code: Prospects and Risks
In principle, the problems of streamlining legislation... it is always very difficult, it is always very responsible. And here we are talking about the codification of legislation, which itself has not yet been defined, where its boundaries are. Legal science, I can tell you with complete responsibility, has not yet drawn such an identification line between information and so-called digital legislation. And the most important thing that arises here, of course, is what approach to codification we will choose, i.e. the question of the subject of regulation. <…> The concept... of the Digital Code – we pointed out in our first, second, and fourth conclusions, which we sent to the Government, that there is still some inconsistency. This is largely due to the fact that all this legislation is being developed in a rather opportunistic manner: there is no system in place
11.05.2023
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2023
EVOLUTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL TEXT AND CONSTITUTIONAL OVERSIGHT – EXPERIENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
At its core, the new wave of tech innovation is much more complex in structure. Convergent nature-inspired technologies have emerged and are now being employed. The state, law, and the Constitution must develop a mechanism to protect against threats arising from any of the great multitude of technologies we have, rather than individual types
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
‘Regulatory Guillotine’: A New Look at Old Requirements
The second obstacle is certain conservatism of law, because it is sustained by well-established law-making procedures. It is clear that at the level of subordinate acts, everything would work out quite quickly. But introduction of amendments to legislation will take a well-known scenario which includes approval by departments. This is an obstacle in terms of content, in terms of procedures, and in terms of time. Finally, do not forget about sluggishness of legal regulations
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
‘Regulatory Guillotine’: A New Look at Old Requirements
I would say that the biggest obstacle [for starting ‘regulatory guillotine’, – Ed.] is the existing disagreement about regulating monitoring and oversight activities. On one hand, we are said to be developing economy providing freedom of entrepreneurship; on the other hand, oversight bodies are set to identify non-compliance, impose sanctions, and sometimes, by default perform fiscal functions