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.

Svetlana Volodina

Svetlana Volodina

President, Russian Federal Bar Association
Quotes
26.06.2024
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2024
Professionalisation of Legal Aid: ‘Homework’ Inspired by the 11th Forum
Our testing [written answers to questions within the framework of the qualification exam to acquire the status of a lawyer, Clause 2, Article 11 of the Federal Law of 31.05.2002 No. 63-FZ ‘On Advocacy and the Bar in the Russian Federation’ – ed.] is uniform across the country and is checked on a single server by a computer. There is a unified list of questions and a set number of tickets. It is said that the bar cannot handle such a number of exams. However, this is a transition period and will mostly affect only very large cities
26.06.2024
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2024
Interactive session ‘The Vera Zasulich Case: For and Against’
The acquittal of Vera Zasulich is an indictment of [St. Petersburg Governor] Fyodor Trepov. <...> Trepov’s absolute impunity made people want to put an end to it somehow. And yes, perhaps in a completely wrong [way]