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.

Olga Kharlamova

Olga Kharlamova

Vice President – Director of Key Accounts Department, Sberbank
Quotes
14.10.2021
Russian Energy Week 2021
Russian Energy System and Climate Agenda: Evolution or Revolution
The only thing we have now is the ability to provide some sort of discounts, but primarily for the payment of interest on the resources we attract. These discounts are obtained at the expense of the bank’s profits because we don’t currently have any universal programmes that aim to support the industry. I’m referring to government programmes above all. We definitely won’t be able to do this for a long time at our own expense
14.10.2021
Russian Energy Week 2021
Russian Energy System and Climate Agenda: Evolution or Revolution
The energy transition entails significant capital investments. I don’t think it’s likely to happen without banks and financial support for this green transformation because entrepreneurs who work in this market simply don’t have so much idle funds that they could invest at one time. As a bank, we regard the financing of green projects as a priority area of ​​our business