Svetlana Chupsheva

17.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Russia’s Spatial Framework: Is There a Place for Mega-Agglomerations Here?

We are now looking at pilot projects, such as infrastructure-service models of cities, so that it is not just money pumped into the infrastructure

17.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Russia’s Spatial Framework: Is There a Place for Mega-Agglomerations Here?

We are now selecting development projects for our country for the Powerful Ideas for a New Era Forum, with the participation of all comers – citizens, entrepreneurs. We have a block for regional development. Out of three thousand initiatives and proposals, about one thousand are projects related to interregional cooperation and cooperation between cities. Why is this not developing now as much as it could? Because there are legislative restrictions, there are limitations in authority, there are inter-budgetary restrictions, let alone transport and logistics infrastructure. This, of course, needs to be expanded. Last year, the Government of the Russian Federation announced the adoption of a law on urban agglomerations. We need to define what an agglomeration is, what opportunities and powers the subjects of Russia have

17.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Russia’s Spatial Framework: Is There a Place for Mega-Agglomerations Here?

Science cities concentrate the high scientific and technological potential and the best personnel. It may be a small town of 5,000 to 100,000 people, but the contribution to the economy of the country and the region is huge. And these cities cannot separately be considered for participation in the national projects regarding social facilities, infrastructure, roads. People leave these places because there is no opportunity for families, children. And we are losing potential, it is eroding

17.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Assessing the Business Environment, Investment Climate, and Investment Potential of the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation

Despite generally being very satisfied with support measures, businesses have noted a shortcoming with obtaining credit resources – we’re talking about high interest rates and high collateral. This is an area that also requires some fine-tuning

17.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Assessing the Business Environment, Investment Climate, and Investment Potential of the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation

So far, 20% still talk about an excessive number of inspections and, again, aren’t very satisfied with their interaction with the control and supervisory authorities. […] Nationally, 8% of entrepreneurs complain about their interaction with law enforcement, and in some regions this number is as high as 25-30%. We’ve agreed to provide all of this information for each region to the heads of the law enforcement agencies: the Interior Ministry, the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor General’s Office, and the Federal Security Service. I hope to be able to work together with the heads of the constituent entities on how to reduce complaints related to pressure being exerted on business

17.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Assessing the Business Environment, Investment Climate, and Investment Potential of the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation

In spite of these unprecedented difficult times for business and for the regions, the overall composite index rose by ten points last year. This is a very serious increase. It means that we’ve seen improvement in 70% of the indicators that make up the basis for the ranking. Improvement all across the country. [...] This includes an increase in business satisfaction with government support measures, both financial and non-financial. Maybe it’s because of the pandemic that we’ve gotten quicker, more timely, more targeted, and more personal in the way we approach adjustments to the support measures that business needs at this time, at this moment. For the first time this year, we’ve seen scores of 4.5 and 5 on a five-point scale in terms of satisfaction – we have never seen scores like that before

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Global Strategic Planning: Views and Prospects

We will come to new relational models for both technology and social issues. The regulatory sandbox principle will be so mainstream for the next ten years, and it’s already happening now. There is a need for rapid opportunities to implement models that will work on a national scale. Regulatory sandboxes should be extended not only to digital technologies but also to governance and tax regimes. Russia could become a testing ground for new solutions and technologies in different areas. This could be a serious advantage and help to attract new partners and new personnel interested in implementing solutions of this kind

16.06.2022

SPIEF 2022

Global Strategic Planning: Views and Prospects

It would be a mistake to think only about social questions and ignore technology, the investment environment. Economic growth does not equal human well-being. We have to reconsider our models and pose questions: do we consider ourselves human capital, do we want our children to be human capital?

04.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

The Progress and Challenges of Integration within the EAEU and the New Development Paradigm

We [the ASI – ed.] work with union members across several different areas. I believe that we need to create a comprehensive offering for the EAEU from the point of view of partnership and formulating new shared best practices across completely different areas. Again, we need to develop shared approaches to regulation. <...> In this regard, we are also ready to work together with colleagues and different regions to examine these approaches in terms of regulation pertaining to our entrepreneurs and investors working in the EAEU. These approaches should be of equivalent worth and significance, and an entrepreneur should be able to understand the rules of the game as they pertain to countries – our territories. I think this could lead to real success and a substantive contribution

04.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

Presenting the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index

In addition, direct communication between investors and the regional authorities making decisions has improved. [...] Last year, it likely only intensified when this direct dialogue, this feedback was carried out literally every day. I know that all governors personally met with business associations on a daily basis; they met with entrepreneurs working in the regions, with investors. We dealt with completely different situations ourselves, with problems faced by entrepreneurs. It can also be seen throughout the country in the assessments made by business, which says that the direct communication channel has almost doubled

04.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

Presenting the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index

Despite the pandemic and last year, 40 out of 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation improved their average index for all indicators. I would like to say that for the country as a whole, the index has decreased for the first time in 5 years. [...] The primary key rating areas, including under pressure on business, assess the amount of time required to be connected to infrastructure, the issuance of a building permit, to be connected to power grids, to register an enterprise. And every year we record a decrease for these indicators in both the average time frame for the country and the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. [...] Pressure on business has decreased. This is also a trend that we can witness for the first time in the last 5 years of the rating. Previously, we would record an increase in administrative pressure on entrepreneurs, an increase in unnecessary documentation, and the inspections taking place in the regions. At the end of last year, the number of entrepreneurs talking about administrative pressure had decreased by almost 30%

04.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

Presenting the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index

The National Rating for the investment climate in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation was calculated following a difficult year under the pandemic. Regional heads, entrepreneurs, and citizens of our country all found themselves in a difficult situation. Significant federal and regional resources were allocated to support business, which faced a sharp drop in revenue. Thus, more than RUB 1.5 trillion were issued under all concessional lending programmes in 2020. At the end of 2020, the number of small businesses in the country had decreased by 4%

03.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

Quality of Life as a Key Driver of Contemporary Development

The results of the survey of the regional network: the majority of people named the possibility of self-fulfillment as the most important factor defining the quality of life. In second place people named the availability and quality of medical care, in third place – the provision of material goods, then safety, and in fifth place they mentioned the quality of the urban environment and public spaces, opportunities for education and various opportunities

05.09.2019

EEF 2019

Increasing the Investment Appeal of the Far East

In the Far East regions, <...> 53% of entrepreneurs report heavy administrative pressure from regional and municipal administrations, less than 20% report on federal authorities, <...> 42% of entrepreneurs complain of courts of general jurisdiction, <...> 55% – of power supply organizations,

05.09.2019

EEF 2019

Increasing the Investment Appeal of the Far East

The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Kamchatka Region have already made it to top 30 regions best for entrepreneurship, <...> 9 out of 11 regions demonstrated an improved dynamics of most national rating indicators, there are 45 of them

07.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Human Resources for the Transition to the Economy of the Future

We support education projects that promote skills of the future; we are creating a foundation to finance these projects. Together with the Ministry of Science, we are launching a project called ‘100 universities’, where 100 universities of our country will go through an intensive programme on digital economy and skills of the future

07.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Human Resources for the Transition to the Economy of the Future

None of the existing education programmes provides project experience, or multiplicative and multicultural competencies, or skills required for digital economy

06.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Government and Business in the Social Sector: Identifying New Sources of Growth

The state remained a monopolist in this area for decades. It is not a good thing because there is no competition in the social sphere, which leads to stagnation and degradation. We lack a few basic development elements. First, it is technology: the social sphere is far behind technologically. Second, it is big open date that raises the quality of social services and satisfaction of the recipients. Third, it is professionals, both in terms of their quality and their quantity

06.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Government and Business in the Social Sector: Identifying New Sources of Growth

Social sphere is perceived as something perennially needy, costly, and entirely devoid of investment attractivity. We all need to fight that together and illustrate that social sphere, above all, is investment into human capital

08.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Data in Service of the State and Society

We see holes in our legislation: as of today, there is no definition for data and big data; how to depersonalize data and remove personal, private information about someone; the borderline between the data we can collect and the data that would be unethical to collect; the borderline between the tasks that can be entrusted to an algorithm or artificial intellegince and the ones that can only be done by people

08.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Data in Service of the State and Society

Big data and sharing information within one system help reduce time and render services taken to a new quality level

07.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Presentation of the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index

What are entrepreneurs complaining about? I am peddling stale news – for four years, regulatory and enforcement agencies procedures still raise eyebrows; the number of inspections is growing, this year by 10% compared to last year

07.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Presentation of the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index

The ultimate goal of our joint work is to improve the business environment, create effective institutions, lay the groundwork, lift restrictions and barriers. We have a direct correlation for three years between the rating and the volume of investments in the regions. <...> The dynamics of improving the business environment for entrepreneurs in our country, regions, continue to grow. The pace is not as high as last year. Last year, the integral index showed a growth of 15.8 points, this year – 7.3 points, almost twice as slow, but 62 regions have been steadily improving for three years all their indicators in 45 specific rating rubrics

06.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Partnership and knowledge-sharing: new sources to drive development

We have done the rating over several years, and we do have the database of best solutions from variety of Russian regions that have proven their efficiency. We put them into words, we provide off-the-shelf solutions based on the experience. But the demand is so high that we can only cover 10 regions in a year, but we have 85 regions in Russia, so we need to speed up. <…> We need a very convenient interface, an open platform where all regions would find it easy to work, which would not just be place to stack roadmaps that no one ever uses

14.02.2019

Russian Investment Forum 2019

Success Factors: Ideas, Personnel, Skills

The goal of a technological breakthrough coincides at present with a personnel breakdown

14.02.2019

Russian Investment Forum 2019

Success Factors: Ideas, Personnel, Skills

Now, personnel and skills are the new oil and the new gold for our country

15.02.2019

Russian Investment Forum 2019

Training Employees to Implement National Projects

We launched university 2025, an open platform which creates individual tracks for our students, helps accelerate projects, form teams and upgrade the deficit areas and competencies which leaders in technology entrepreneurship need

15.02.2019

Russian Investment Forum 2019

Training Employees to Implement National Projects

Technological breakthroughs and the implementation of ambitious projects such as those outlined by the President in the national projects, are impossible without human capital. But here is the paradox: when you look at the structure of the financing for 12 national projects worth 26 trillion roubles, development of human capital is the least supported element, with only 4.5 billion, and we are once again underfunding the education system and human capital development <...> Investing in personnel is always expensive, and we must accept that. If we are serious about creating comfortable conditions for people and preparing strong and competent professional leaders, then we need to do it. Then we need to adjust our financing to these priorities

15.02.2019

Russian Investment Forum 2019

Training Employees to Implement National Projects

We are faced with the reality that without education, acceleration and staff training, we cannot implement a single project or initiative. This is why WorldSkills was created. This is a movement that appeared in the sandpit, as they say, with an alternative model for training personnel for intermediate vocational education, and it turned out to be very popular and genuinely effective. This movement is gaining momentum

13.02.2019

Healthy Life Forum: Towards 80+ 2019

Quality of Life for the Older Generation: Programme Implementation

We must not create separate ghettos or segregate the older generation. They are a large part of our society, which should be integrated into the overall government policy,

14.02.2019

Russian Investment Forum 2019

Best Practices for Socioeconomic Development: Integrated Solutions for the Regions and Cities

In the next month we will prepare a set of criteria for selecting best practices. They will become a part of the Smartek database and will directly correlate to the 12 National Projects, on topics such as the environment, urban development, the construction of accessible housing, demographic improvement practices, healthy lifestyle campaigns, and more. And we expect to collect these practices, not just from the subjects of the Russian Federation, but also from federal ministries and agencies, as well as development institutions

12.09.2018

EEF 2018

Business Breakfast. An Investment Breakthrough for the Regions of the Far Eastern Federal District: What Next?

We know of large companies that have been waiting for approval on their residency in the ASEZs, and eventually just left the region. In my opinion, this is unacceptable

12.09.2018

EEF 2018

Business Breakfast. An Investment Breakthrough for the Regions of the Far Eastern Federal District: What Next?

According to the results of the polls from last year, <…> three regions of the Far East were in the top five in terms of growth dynamics in all of the rating’s indicators: Sakhalin Region, Kamchatka Territory, Amur Region

25.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

Presentation of the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index

Respondents are dissatisfied with the workforce, and, in their opinion, the quality of telecommunications and highways is not up to standard. The President of the Russian Federation has pointed out the need to solve infrastructural problems.

25.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

Presentation of the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index

Regional project offices, together with federal agencies, have managed to do something really incredible: the actual result for certain procedures across the country has on average surpassed the target. For example, the period for obtaining a building permit for a model site is now 105 days, while the target value was 129

25.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

Presentation of the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index

The growth of indicators in the 2018 rating has been colossal. This is the result of planned, systematic work carried out at all levels of government. Interdepartmental interaction, which is traditionally considered the weak point of all large-scale programmes and reforms, has come together and this is the effect. Regional heads have played a special role, of course