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.

Alexei Moiseev

Alexei Moiseev

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation
Quotes
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Development of Cooperation in the Diamond Industry among BRICS Countries
In my opinion, the Kimberley Process, ADPA and BRICS form a triad. By working together within this triad, we will be able to change the situation in the diamond market
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Digital Finance: New Paths of Development
Formally, there are no hindrances at the moment to payments in cryptocurrency for cross-border transactions… The only question here is how to transfer this cryptocurrency, which was received under a foreign trade contract, into fiat later. This is the main question that the regulators have always been faced with, I think, in most countries of the world. Again, there are no direct prohibitions on this. Moreover, in the Civil Code, the cryptocurrency is defined as property, so from the point of view of the Civil Code, this transaction is a barter
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Digital Finance: New Paths of Development
It will be possible to place and at the same time attract investors (Russian and, of course, foreign) with the help of various kinds of digital assets. I believe that for many of them this will be a more convenient way of investing in the Russian economy than a direct one. Given that the bridge has been destroyed due to European sanctions, the classic purchase of securities in Russia is now complicated, and digital financial assets provide such an opportunity
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Everlasting Value: The Potential for Gold and Precious Metals
First of all, we work with our partners in the foreign governments. We are trying to get them, under several agreements, to establish regular control over the export of raw materials. As for what we can do on our part, we can set things in order with the laboratories [which assess the gold content in raw materials in bad faith – Ed.]. 90% of those labs were shut down by the National Accreditation body, making it impossible for them to analyze raw materials. <...> So that the people, the bona fide entrepreneurs, have somewhere to go to – basically, a place for arbitration where they could confirm that their raw materials are genuine. We decided to create such a laboratory at the Federal Assay Office
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Everlasting Value: The Potential for Gold and Precious Metals
We have fairly significant quantities of secondary raw materials, which are mainly taken out of the country. We have a technological problem. <...> That is the first problem. The second problem we have is with the EAEU countries <...>, as you know. Several taxes are applied on production and export from Russia, primarily the MET at a 6.5% rate. How to avoid it? Raw materials are exported to neighboring countries by transit – it is easily done. It becomes more profitable once they do not pay the severance tax on exports and gold mining
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Everlasting Value: The Potential for Gold and Precious Metals
We need to make sure that people can deliver what they mine, so that the nuggets could be processed right here, and the end product would be a gold bar
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Risks and Opportunities in a New Era for Stock Markets
Passive collective investment, index trackers, are, of course, what we should target people to
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Risks and Opportunities in a New Era for Stock Markets
Customers are not treated as if they could bring long-term income, make money with them on small commissions 20 years down the line. <...> You know how brokers used to say before: it does not matter how much clients pay if they do it long enough. For some reason, this has always been the attitude towards major institutional investors, and foreign ones especially, but never towards our retail investors
23.10.2019
Russia- Africa Economic Forum 2019
Russian–African Collaboration in the Diamond Industry
In the Russian Federation, we are currently in the process of implementing an electronic tracking system where we will mark and register all diamonds mined in the Russian Federation into an electronic database <...> We are already in talks with our partner countries in the Eurasian community
23.10.2019
Russia- Africa Economic Forum 2019
Russian–African Collaboration in the Diamond Industry
If a consumer is able to clearly understand that what they're buying in one place is synthetic, and what they're buying at another is a natural diamond, then we won't have any problems competing with this market. <...> The primary risk is if it's mixed together, and synthetic diamonds are being sold as if they were natural diamonds