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.

Vladimir Bulavin

Vladimir Bulavin

Head, Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (2016-2023)
Biography
Born in Lipetsk Region, Russia on February 11, 1953. Graduated from Moscow Institute of Railroad Transport Engineers (1975), and the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR (1979).

Starting from 1977, he was employed by state security bodies.

Starting from 1979, he served in KGB Administration, Office of the Ministry of Security – Administration of the Federal Counterintelligence Service – Administration of the Federal Security Service (UMB-UFSK-UFSB of the RF) in Nizhny Novgorod Region.

In 1992 – 2006 – the head of the UMB-UFSK-UFSB of the RF in Nizhny Novgorod Region.

Worked as the Chair of the Council of FSS Bodies Heads in Volga Federal District (since 2001), the Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia - Head of the Administration of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (since 2006), Senior Deputy Secretary of the RF Security Council (since 2008), a standing representative of the President in the Northwestern Federal District (since 2013).

In 2016 – 2023 – the Head of the FCS of Russia.

Awarded the orders “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the III and the IV degree, “For War Services”, decorations “Honorary Officer of Counterintelligence Service”, “For Service in Counterintelligence” of the II degree, medals of the USSR and RF.

Candidate of Legal Sciences, the distinguished officer of the security bodies of the RF.

Married, has two children.
Quotes
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Effectiveness of Intergovernmental Regulation in Transforming Global Trade
Our plans – I’ve already spoken about our development strategy – include creating a brand-new customs office by 2030 that is smarter and stronger intellectually. But the most important thing is that the figure should connect the customs administrations in Russia, and not only in Russia, with our partners abroad and within the Russian Federation […] The more the customs sphere is saturated with numbers, the more transparency and mutual trust there is in this area. We want to enrol artificial intelligence as a permanent service in our Russian customs office
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Effectiveness of Intergovernmental Regulation in Transforming Global Trade
The Federal Customs Service maintains relations with the customs administrations of more than 100 countries, and we have concluded basic agreements with 76 of our colleagues to exchange information about goods and vehicles that are being shipped. A kind of digital dialogue is generally being built in order to preliminarily exchange information. This gives us a kind of head start to check the consignments that come to us in advance. In addition, a significant number of experiments have been carried out in an experimental mode with some of our colleagues abroad. I already mentioned the mutual recognition of the results of customs control, the exchange of images of inspection complexes, and the exchange of information from the risk management system databases [...] But we must admit that for now we somehow have not gone any further than experiments. Obviously, political will is needed here. It’s important that each customs administration of each state is not very protective of its business in a certain sense, and we would like the exchange of information to be as thorough as possible
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