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.

Sergey Batekhin

Sergey Batekhin

Chief Executive Officer, Head of the Management Board
Quotes
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Far East IT Hub 2030: Targeting Asia-Pacific Markets
As a private enterprise, we are probably more flexible in some ways. That means, we can fill in this niche of support for startups at an early stage, when, perhaps, the risk is bigger; but, as I have already noted, with our experience and our understanding of the market, we can do it
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Industrial Revolution in the Financial Sector: Tokenized Assets, Digital Financial Assets, and Digital Currencies for Central Banks
Unfortunately, I can verify that without amendments to legislation regarding digital financial assets, the business will not be able to get off the ground. This is a fact of life today. The new market will be able to earn money under two conditions. First, the readiness of business. This condition is feasible […] Second, this model will not work without the adoption of tax changes. Today, entry to the market is prohibitive. You have to pay 20% of the income tax right away with the release of DFAs. This is essentially a turnover tax
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Industrial Revolution in the Financial Sector: Tokenized Assets, Digital Financial Assets, and Digital Currencies for Central Banks
Monitoring the product supply chain is becoming a very important issue in connection with ESG and ever-increasing environmental requirements. For example, now the European Union is about to introduce an electronic passport on batteries for electric vehicles. And, as a nickel producer, we are interested in our nickel being bought and supplied to car manufacturers who want it to meet these standards. Even just a smart contract, or a token, as we call it, allows us to record [information] in a batch of nickel [about] where it was mined, how it was delivered, and how environmental standards were observed there. At each stage of its implementation, it’s possible to trace that this is exactly the nickel [in question], right up to the moment when the battery in which it is contained is sent off for disposal