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.

Denis  Khramov

Denis Khramov

First Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Quotes
05.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Resource Base of the Far East and the Arctic: Current State and Development Prospects
Investment in infrastructure, in joint infrastructure, can help decrease economic costs for investors, and pull economic indicators of specific projects into an economically profitable zone
05.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Resource Base of the Far East and the Arctic: Current State and Development Prospects
We need to create conditions, both economic and legislative, that will help attract investments, will help the whole country to use this competitive advantage, will help to involve them into exploration
05.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Resource Base of the Far East and the Arctic: Current State and Development Prospects
The country that is the world’s treasury of these resources does not have its own legislative tools to stimulate geological exploration
05.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Resource Base of the Far East and the Arctic: Current State and Development Prospects
There are no other drivers or alternatives for development of the Arctic territory and the Far East, except for extraction of a wide range of various mineral resources, including both crude hydrocarbons and solid mineral deposits. The task of the state policy in this sphere is to create conditions for these mineral resources to be involved into turnover. Perhaps, first of all, explored and developed in an economically viable way; and second, within a reasonable period that will allow the country to benefit from this competitive advantage – the mineral resource base
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Russian Continental Shelf: Is Development Necessary?
When it comes to the degree of investigation. <…> It remains extremely uneven. The Barents Sea is best known in the Arctic with one and a half kilometers of the seismic survey per a square kilometer of area. For the Kara Sea it’s a half of that, whereas the East Siberian Sea is the least studied
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Russian Continental Shelf: Is Development Necessary?
Currently, we have 79 licenses for the shelf. Rosneft holds 31, Gazprom has almost the same number – 29, Gazpromneft has 5, and the remaining 14 are distributed among other companies. Since 2012, 46 licenses went to state companies. <…> Since 2012, three new deposits have been commissioned in the Arctic. Apart from the well-known Pobeda, it is Tsentralno-Olginskaya and Severo-Obskaya. Subsequently, the growth since 2012 resulted in 210 million tons of oil, 670 billion cubic meters of gas, and 16 million tones of condensate
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Oil and Gas Industry. Regulatory Activity and Prospects for Development of Oil and Gas Industry in Russia and China
The Government is already taking measures to make investment in the Arctic more attractive. Special conditions are put in place: there is a regional income and property tax break. We are already providing the license for geological survey in the Arctic for a longer time than anywhere else in the country. The usual term is 5 years, while in the Arctic it is 7. There is no mineral extraction tax for oil deposits located to the north from the Arctic Circle. We have reduced the initial and regular fees for subsoil use, introduced the declarative procedure for obtaining licenses for hard resources and hydrocarbons fields development
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Oil and Gas Industry. Regulatory Activity and Prospects for Development of Oil and Gas Industry in Russia and China
The total financing required for complex plan measures [for the development of the Arctic, – Ed.] is expected to be about 10.5 trillion roubles. This is mostly non-budget investment. No doubt, these projects can be interesting for Chinese investors
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Defeating Trash: Russian Reform and International Practices
We bury 97% [of waste, – Ed.]. In Europe, Romania and Greece are close to our indicators – they bury around 90%. The Netherlands and Sweden are on the other end of the spectrum; they bury just 5% of waste, the rest is being recycled
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Defeating Trash: Russian Reform and International Practices
For the first time in a while environmental agenda has become one of the priorities of the state policy
09.04.2019
International Arctic Forum 2019
Arctic Shelf Development: The Potential and the Risks
The state, which must clearly be well aware of the resource base it possesses, must approach this issue with greater responsibility. It needs to do everything it can to boost prospecting work
09.04.2019
International Arctic Forum 2019
Arctic Shelf Development: The Potential and the Risks
The prospects for growth [in the extraction and consumption] of gas are incredibly good, given the fact that development costs will come down, technology will improve, and demand for gas will only continue to grow throughout the world
04.10.2018
Russian Energy Week 2018
Increasing the Efficiency of Oil Production: Responding to the Challenges
The resource prospects for traditional production areas are still quite high. They account for roughly 45 billion tonnes of D0–D2 category resources, almost 26 billion tonnes of which are in Western Siberia. These reserves are mostly small objects in marginal zones and in deposits with difficult development conditions – Bazhenov and Domanik formations, overlooked deposits, and sub-gas deposits. There are still prospects for major discoveries, but mostly in areas far from infrastructure. Of course, these reserves should also be explored and incorporated into development, which requires adopting measures in two key areas: the first is incentivizing geological exploration in order to discover new fields in remote and marginal areas of traditional oil production regions and the other is incentivizing development of hard-to-recover reserves
04.10.2018
Russian Energy Week 2018
Gas-powered and Electric Vehicles in Russia: Possible Development Rates and Strategies
The bulk of funding for reducing emissions is from private sources. Extra-budgetary sources amount to roughly RUB 371 billion, according to our most conservative estimates
04.10.2018
Russian Energy Week 2018
Gas-powered and Electric Vehicles in Russia: Possible Development Rates and Strategies
The Ecology national project was approved a week ago. It consists of several federal projects, one of which we called ‘Clean Air’. It provides funding, which we will protect. At present, according to our estimates, there are roughly RUB 110 billion in the consolidated budget, but mainly in the budget of the Russian Federation — roughly RUB 102.6 billion — earmarked for the implementation of measures associated with air purification
04.10.2018
Russian Energy Week 2018
Gas-powered and Electric Vehicles in Russia: Possible Development Rates and Strategies
NGV fuel is growing at a pace of 25–30% per year around the world. Yet our country, which has, according to some estimates, the second or third biggest gas reserves in the world, of course, has an unacceptably small share of NGVs. We currently rank 114th in the world
04.10.2018
Russian Energy Week 2018
Gas-powered and Electric Vehicles in Russia: Possible Development Rates and Strategies
We need to reduce cumulative emissions by 20% in the most polluted cities of Russia. This figure was given in the presidential decree
04.10.2018
Russian Energy Week 2018
Gas-powered and Electric Vehicles in Russia: Possible Development Rates and Strategies
Motor transport is going through an era of substantial growth — 5% per year according to our estimates. By 2025, we expect there to be 450 vehicles per 1,000 people and motor vehicles to account for roughly 45% of gross emissions
24.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russian Competitiveness in the Global Energy Sector
“Resource potential is not the only competitive advantage we have. Another important component is the technology. We pay a lot attention to that. The fourth stage of the Yamal LNG plant will be based on a self-contained liquefaction technology, which can be considered our own technology, it will largely use the Arctic climate, and it will produce about 1 million tonnes per year,”
24.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russian Competitiveness in the Global Energy Sector
“One other pillar of competitiveness, which could be mentioned in regard to the Arctic LNG. Not only LNG needs to be scouted and produced: gas needs to be liquefied, it needs to be delivered. That is where the development of the Northern Sea Route, the development of navigation on the Northern Sea Route, the year-round passage of ice-class tankers—there are 15 of them already, gaining experience and competence in working at the Northern Sea Route, are the additional reserves for increasing competitiveness,”
24.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russian Competitiveness in the Global Energy Sector
“The resource potential of Yamal and Gydan allows Russia to occupy a solid position in the natural gas market in general, and the LNG market in particular,”
24.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russian Competitiveness in the Global Energy Sector
“Yamal LNG project was successfully launched. We plan to launch the second and third stages of the plant ahead of schedule in 2018 and 2019,”
24.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russian Competitiveness in the Global Energy Sector
“The current relatively low price for LNG that has formed in the world will be driving growth,”
24.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russian Competitiveness in the Global Energy Sector
“The growth in LNG consumption in the world by 2030 will be 73% from the current 293 million tonnes of consumption last year,”
24.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russian Competitiveness in the Global Energy Sector
“Russia strengthened its position in the global LNG market. And that is not just the global market, it is the fastest growing energy market,”