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Taiwan’s experience in fighting coronavirus can help Russia

That’s according to Doctor of Medicine Guzel Ulumbekova, Argishti Ginoyan (PhD in Economics) and Ivan Petrachkov, scholars from the Higher School of Healthcare Administration and Management. They used Taiwan’s experience that is believed to be among the most successful in fighting the pandemic to prepare their Recommendations for Russia to contain the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19. The researchers target responsible members of our society — the Recommendations will help them learn more about the situation. Public officials will find them useful for planning further actions. That is exactly why we decided to share the key excerpts of this work.

COVID-19 Healthcare Medicine Pandemics

WHO representative Melita Vuinovich on measures to prevent becoming infected with the coronavirus

On 28 March, an online forum took place in Moscow which covered the coronavirus pandemic. The event, entitled The Next 20 Years, was organized by the Roscongress Foundation with support from the Doctor Channel. Speaking at the forum, representative of the World Health Organization in the Russian Federation Melita Vuinovich offered a series of simple but crucial recommendations for people to protect themselves and their loved ones from COVID-19.

COVID-19 Standards of living Pandemics

Responding to handshakes in coronavirus times

It is hardly a secret that crises have a direct impact on humanity’s transformational growth. They instigate work, thought, and unconventional solutions that either become a tradition or die out. Communications is yet another area where the 21st century keeps surprising us. Gilana Mikhailova, Director of the RANEPA International Protocol Centre explains how coronavirus outbreak can have a positive impact on business relations and their façade.

COVID-19 Standards of living Pandemics

R&D Products of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University at Roscongress’ Innovation Space

Innovation Space is Roscongress’ project that aims to help Russian technology solutions and turn them into efficient business. Engineers from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University are working together with the Roscongress Foundation to present their projects at this year’s SCIENCE FEST Science and Innovation Festival. Take a moment of your time to check out these projects online.

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How to Foster Global Technology Champions

Development Director of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) and Roscongress blog author Evgeny Borisov discusses necessary conditions for the creation of successful businesses and how regional approaches to entrepreneurship need to change to foster those conditions.

Entrepreneurship Regions of Russia Startups

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Выявление, разработка и поставки: целостный подход к управлению вспышками инфекционных заболеваний

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03.04.2020

Detect, Develop, and Deliver: A Holistic Approach to Managing Outbreaks

The coronavirus outbreak is only the latest in a long series of wakeup calls over the past few decades for the global health community. Once again, a high consequence pathogen, likely incubated in nature, infected humans, and overwhelmed health care systems before the medical community could figure out how to contain it. As of the time of this writing, more than 78,000 COVID-19 confirmed cases and nearly 2,500 deaths have been reported.

COVID-19 Healthcare Pandemics

Ярослав Кузьминов: Вирусная революция: как пандемия изменит наш мир

Article

01.04.2020

Yaroslav Kuzminov: Viral Revolution: How the Pandemic Will Change Our World

In an op-ed for RBK, HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov laid out his predictions about the changes that await us in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: on-site office workers will be reduced by a third, retail business will go completely digital, and both healthcare and education will undergo a radical overhaul.

Yaroslav Kuzminov

COVID-19 Medicine Labor Market Digitalization Pandemics

Руководство по профилактике и лечению новой коронавирусной инфекции COVID-19

Research

30.03.2020

Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment

The Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, with support from the Russian Direct Investment Fund and scientific advice from I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, have published the Russian version of the first handbook on coronavirus prevention and treatment. The Handbook was compiled by the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine according to clinical experience. The Roscongress Foundation analysts present a digest of the facts set out in the Handbook.

COVID-19 Healthcare Pandemics

COVID-19, коронавирусная инфекция, вызванная SARS-CоV-2

Research

28.03.2020

COVID-19 – coronavirus infection caused by SARS-CoV-2

COVID-19 Healthcare Medicine Pandemics

Roscongress Sport Club and VTB United League basketball players face off in all-star match

A gala basketball match featuring leading business figures, renowned actors, and athletes has taken place in Moscow. Billed as a VTB United League all-star match, the event was organized together with the Roscongress Sport Club and incorporated into the sporting programme for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2020.

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Cooperation between Russia and Africa needs to be targeted

The Russia—Africa Summit and Economic Forum, held in Sochi in 2019, broke new ground in international relations. Russia considers cooperation with African countries to be a foreign policy priority. Russian businesses are actively making their way to prospective markets. Logically, the African track has made it to the agendas of the Roscongress Foundation’s largest events and will be discussed in June at the upcoming St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dr. Sc. (Econ) Irina Abramova discusses the measures that should be undertaken for the development of mutually beneficial cooperation.

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