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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Aleksandr Isayevich

Aleksandr Isayevich

General Director – Chairman of the Management Board, Russian Small and Medium Business Corporation
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06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Small Business – Big Strength
It is important, I think, besides everything else, we hear this everywhere, to not leave businesses alone to face the bank... We have created a competency centre based on the МСП.РФ digital platform to help businesses structure transactions, help entrepreneurs communicate with their banks through us, and, if necessary, find another bank
07.09.2022
EEF 2022
Strong Business – Strong Russia
I believe that as of today support measures for SME in the Far East are better than for large business: amounts are higher, while interest rates are lower
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Thirty Years of Innovation Policy in Russia: Lessons and Prospects in Relation to Creating Tech Champions
We are not involved in politics, we are talking about different projects. But why can't we create a place or a tool where companies can marry their proposal to an investor?
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Thirty Years of Innovation Policy in Russia: Lessons and Prospects in Relation to Creating Tech Champions
I would not start from models, but from stages and tools. The first one is for companies from zero to 18 months. We created a separate programme for startups, and it was aimed at guarantees. We realized that it does not work. But we realized that banks have one important common feature – they build models based on the entrepreneur's data. This means that the efforts of banks must be combined with the efforts of entrepreneurs, and they should not be interfered with. We have given young companies an opportunity by covering 90% of the risk with us during one year, so that the company can get its initial result. And it worked. The second stage is 18 months to three years. The first requirement of such companies is to focus and test the path they have taken. The acceleration programmes that we launched help in this regard. The second requirement is the service, in terms of the sales market. We started helping companies make purchases under the innovation quota. The third one is three+ companies. We help high-tech companies get loans under a preferential programme adopted six weeks ago. During this time, we have completely digitized this process and received more than 240 applications for RUB 35 billion. These are all potential champion companies. We also collected the needs of 21 largest customers and digitized their needs by specifications. To date, more than 30 companies are starting to work with customers
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
A New Economic Policy for SMEs
We talk about industry in terms of supporting projects, but the hardest part is finding those projects, structuring them, and providing them with financial leverage
15.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
New SME Strategy: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions
We are reviewing guaranteed support. We no longer consider loan provision on a case-to-case basis. Now we monitor banks’ portfolios and track who gets the support, as well as the amount of it. Going from a guarantee mechanism to an umbrella one helped us increase the amount of support 3.5 times in 2021, with roughly 11 thousand businesses getting support year-to-date. I know that this is not a big number, but these enterprises employ 150 thousand people. It is also important that automation allowed us to see the following effect: every fourth loan was given to a business that would not have been able to get back-to-back financing without this mechanism
15.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
New SME Strategy: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions
Discounted leasing is among the key requests from regional entrepreneurs. It is important that on top of providing more support we plan further steps, such as fewer documents required and higher quality of services. I believe as of today they are not really acceptable. We also need to ensure higher quality of regulation for business. Most importantly, it should not turn into bureaucratic football. Small business is facing global problems now, and we need to help it
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Small Businesses in the Urban Economy of the Far East
There is a call for dialogue under the coronavirus restrictions. Some restrictions are imposed without being discussed with the business community. It is easy to see how such decisions impact the region’s economy. Heads of 15 regions worked with us to make those restrictions clearer and gave a chance to impose the gradually
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Trust in National Jurisdiction as Key to Business Security and Sustained Development
We always talk about when a violation has already occurred […] I think this is the joint task of everyone – to simply tell an entrepreneur what he is violating and what requirements exist. [The entrepreneur’s] job is to do business, and not to study the entire Talmud of requirements and procedures that must be observed […] If an entrepreneur commits a violation, he/she often did not even know that there was such a requirement. There is no intent. We believe it’s important that if an entrepreneur has committed a violation, he/she should be given an opportunity to correct it and not to be fined
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Trust in National Jurisdiction as Key to Business Security and Sustained Development
Fines […] are not differentiated: micro, small, and private individuals all pay the same. It would be fair to differentiate this approach […] Often, when an entrepreneur commits a violation, the current Administrative Code of the Russian Federation has not fully specified whom to fine: the owner or the manager [...] And often it’s both the owner and the executive [who are fined]
02.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Digital Services for Businesses
Entrepreneurs should do business, and not waste time trying to understand and translate what they can get and how the state can help them. My position is that the state should remain behind the scenes. Entrepreneurs don’t care who provide the services. The main thing is to explain in clear Russian that, as entrepreneurs, they can take advantage of a particular measure of support