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.

Nikolay Andreev

Nikolay Andreev

Head of Tax Practice, Zartsyn & Partners Law Company; Head of the Center for Practical Jurisprudence and Digital Competences of the Faculty of Law, The State Academic University for the Humanities
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18.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Virtual Worlds, Real Problems: Digital Law and Cybersecurity in the Gaming Industry
Even if we take our app stores abroad, people are afraid due to the risk of secondary sanctions. People from China, say, or Hong Kong are afraid to hand money over to Russian companies when buying their computer games. So, first of all, we must ensure that as well as paying by usual fiat and money, people are not prevented from using cryptocurrency and digital financial assets, which are not covered by secondary sanctions, and so on. We have yet to achieve this. That would help us open up our market, including to our colleagues in Asia. At the same time, it will avoid putting people in Asia and the south-eastern regions in a difficult spot regarding secondary sanctions. But this isn’t the case yet
18.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Virtual Worlds, Real Problems: Digital Law and Cybersecurity in the Gaming Industry
Why does the industry actually need lawyers? The industry is somewhat sceptical as to why lawyers are needed. However, the reason is very simple. Let’s look at the later stages, when a game or company is already very much taking shape. Now, let’s take a step back, to problems that may have emerged right at the start of the company’s life. These could well be ignored, given the absence of lawyers to examine the issues. Later, this can translate to the death of a project in the shape of, for example, disputes related to the rights to engines used at the heart of the game, and so on
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