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.

Anastasia Likhacheva

Anastasia Likhacheva

Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Biography
Dr. Anastasia Likhacheva has a PhD in International relations and works as a Dean at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia. Her key area of expertise includes geo-economics with a particular focus on sanctions, Eurasian integration and Russian foreign policy in Greater Eurasia.

She regularly prepares policy briefs for senior Russian public authorities and has been a member of expert working groups of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East since 2014. She also co-leads the ThinkArctic Project within the Program of Russian Chairmanship in the Arctic Council 2021-2023. In 2012, Dr. Likhacheva worked as a visitor fellow at the Davis Center at Harvard University. Since 2016, she is also a head of Russian Organizing Committee of the Working Group for the Future of Russian-American relations – a joint project led by HSE and Harvard University since 2010.

Author and co-author of more than 40 scientific publications, 70 analytical materials for public authorities, participant in more than 60 international and Russian conferences, including such venues as the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain, UN World Water Week in Stockholm, the Association for International Studies in the USA, as well as Harvard, Beijing, Edinburgh Universities, Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.

In addition to academic research, Anastasia Likhacheva is active in expert work as a participant in high-level dialogues in India, China, the USA, Morocco, Liechtenstein, a number of expert groups under the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the Ministry for the Development of the Far East of the Russian Federation, and international expert consortiums. Dr. Likhacheva was directly involved in the projects for the preparation of a cycle of expert reports of the Valdai International Discussion Club on Russia's turn to Asia and a special project of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy "Strategy of the 21st Century", where she led a working group on issues of national identity and national development.
Quotes
07.09.2022
EEF 2022
The Global Impact of the Russian Arctic: Opportunities for South Asia
We are talking about industry safety – biological, environmental, climatic. [Strengthening security in these areas. – Ed.] will achieve a better perception of the Arctic for all Asian countries
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Economic Wars as a Weapon for the Suppression of Sovereignty
In recent years [there has been] an explosive demand for new hubs, be it the idea of Egypt, Morocco, the buzz around the North-South Transport Corridor. Beyond logistics routes, this is really a demand from a very broad category of countries to insure the risks of their country interactions. <...> it seems to me that this is a profound movement towards new functional subsystems. If it succeeds, it will determine the ability of certain countries to assert their sovereignty. <...> In this aftermath, Russia, as a pioneer of this movement not by choice, has great potential
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