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 208 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 180 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 81 countries worldwide, and 186 Russian public organizations, federal and legislative agencies, and federal subjects.

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.

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Alexander Bastrykin

Alexander Bastrykin

Chairman, Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Quotes
30.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
All the scientific achievements of the Soviet and pre-Soviet period came from by our higher school. <...> Let us somehow get back to this, from Peter the Great, from Lomonosov, from Uvarov. <...> Then our children will probably thank us for the fact that we stopped just in time, looked around, corrected some things a little bit, and went on to the excellent result of preparing our young lawyers
30.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
Russian education was a form of service to the Fatherland. <...> We had our own legal ideology
30.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
Let us go back to the Soviet system of education. Not literally Soviet, but Russian, the one that goes back to Lomonosov. He created science, the Moscow University is named after him for a reason
30.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
Today graduate school is the fourth form of education or what? How long can we study? Is it to complete PhD theses at an old age? Graduate school at that time was a forge of personnel, scientists and teachers. Young legal scholars created new methods, made modest, but their own discoveries. Today, it seems to me, it is important to restore not only the Soviet higher education, but also post-graduate education. Today the prestige of teachers has fallen below zero, while back then the salaries were decent. Now there is a void in terms of professors
30.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
Why did we have to drag [English terms. – Ed.] in again? <...> At least on this front of our education let us move away from bachelors, which is probably an English word. Master's degree is probably not a Russian word, neither is postgraduate. <...> Why is it impossible to restore the Soviet graduate school? <...> The Soviet graduate school trained scientific personnel. <...> It took me 8 months to write my PhD thesis and it took me another 12 months to defend it. All along I received a decent stipend: 100 rubles
30.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
We must not simply educate specialists... but citizens responsible for statehood. <...> The legal ideology that we are talking about today, it must be created by our education system, but why did we introduce the American-English version of education? And who are we going to educate? And our education system is supposed to educate patriots. Why are we afraid of this word? <...> Today it is time to have an ideology of obligation, of responsibility for the future of our country
30.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
The American-English system does not presuppose any kind of mentoring. And our education system... assumed mentoring. The Soviet and Russian systems were supposed to educate a person who already knew why did he or she come to the university for, what they wanted to become
30.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
Is it necessary to address ideology in the process of education? <...> And how can we go on without ideology? We have a brain, we have consciousness – are we brainless creatures? Everyone should have some idea in their head. And we do
28.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
Plenary Session
Four years ago, for the first time ever, two FSB colonels in Moscow received a bribe in the form of cryptocurrency. We had a hard time getting this through the courts. There were a lot of questions. Then the topic died down a bit, but apparently it can still happen. We will keep working, prosecuting, and investigating. [...] The topic of digital crime – they think no one will notice, but on the contrary, it leaves a trail. We’ve set up a special IT department and try to keep up with scientific and technological progress [...] In my forensics textbook, I’m getting the latest edition ready right now, there is a special chapter on IT technology in the investigation process. We are working on this topic, and we will eventually catch up
28.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
Plenary Session
I remember a special course [during my studies. – Ed.] on oratory by Nikolai Alekseev, our dean. Digitalization was nowhere to be seen. He would just walk into that auditorium and keep the audience on the edge of their seats for 90 minutes. You just watch the man speaking – smart, wise, knowledgeable, survived the war. How can the push of a button on a TV take the place of that? Digitalization is making all of us dumber: you press a button, and there’s your answer. We don’t walk anymore because we all drive cars. And it’s the same with this – we press the answer, and our brains don’t have to work. And when it’s time to practice, who’s going to use our brains? The boss? Not every boss is capable of turning on brains
28.06.2022
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum 2022
Plenary Session
Russian science and education have always been foundational. First year courses always included fundamental social and political sciences like philosophy and history. Philosophical knowledge forms the basis of the theory of the state and Russian law. The history of foreign nations and Russia lends a developmental perspective with an eye to the historical past and the achievements and mistakes of Russian education. Russian and Soviet education led to ground-breaking achievements in all scientific and creative fields