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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.

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Vitaly Mutko

Vitaly Mutko

Chief Executive Officer, DOM.RF
Quotes
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
New Life for Far Eastern Cities: Development Strategies
The master plan is a top-level document. I think that in the near future it will find its definition in the town-planning code
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Infrastructure Bonds as an Effective Development Mechanism for the Regions
Many regions in our country are behind. They build living areas that lack schools, kindergartens or hospitals. Naturally, the government took measures. The ‘Stimulus’ programme was adopted, but it stimulated 8–10 million square metres, while many developers included the cost of infrastructure in the cost of a square metre. This idea limited opportunities or affected the demand: it was hard to do it, if there is no margin
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Infrastructure Bonds as an Effective Development Mechanism for the Regions
This is a simple mechanism. DOM.RF has shaped a team. We are ready to help every region, developer or investor to use these mechanisms. They just need to use them. That is one. Finally, I would like to say that we as a development institute have all the instruments supporting all the proposals. This is what Mr. Fayzullin has mentioned. We need to build more housing
07.09.2022
EEF 2022
Rental Housing – Development Opportunities
In the Far East, 47 percent of people are not able to come up with the down payment and service the loan even with a 0% interest rate. This must be resolved somehow: people want to improve their housing conditions. This is the first message. The second is that there is a lot of migration, especially among young people. Young families want to live today <...> they have families because of the housing conditions, we must give them this opportunity. And the third message. We are looking at 200 million square meters that are now rented. People are leasing. This business works <...> And as a business, it must be developed
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Construction: Fast, High Quality, and at Volume
We are ready to take green standards [standards for the development, design, construction and operation of facilities that provide for the preservation of the environment, sustainable development and the creation of comfortable and safe living conditions for people, – Ed.] upon ourselves, but the government should stimulate and encourage it. I see it the following way: if you want to follow the green or environmental standard, you will get either a subsidy or project financing
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
The Foundation of Sustainable Development: Construction and the Housing and Utilities Sector as the Basis for Economic Growth
We must be absolutely clear that 95% of housing is built on market conditions, using the people’s money. So our overall goal is accessible housing. This is achieved by a balance of supply and demand. If we boost only demand, we see that, in two years, there is 50% rise in prices while housing has become less available. 50% of housing, in some areas as much as 70%, is currently bought on a mortgage. <…> A transition to a normal housing policy is needed, to long-term programmes <…> We have a queue of 2.5 million people and we need to consider the issues of rented housing, subsidized rents, which we have started to introduce; we have started developing corporate rents
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Overpriced Housing: Coming Back Down to Earth
The provision of housing in the Far Eastern Federal District is 10% below the Russian average... In total, 2.6 million square metres of housing in apartment buildings are built in the region. This accounts for less than 3% of the total in Russia. The region is vast, yet is home to just 8% of the population. Naturally, this is why we are seeing people move away from the region. This year saw a reduction of 41,000 [people – ed.]
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Overpriced Housing: Coming Back Down to Earth
Currently, 51,000 flats are being constructed [in the Far East – ed.] in residential buildings, and 15,000 are on sale. Demand in the main is for the Far Eastern Mortgage programme... Looking at figures for 2021, 900,000 square metres of living space have already been constructed. This is 80% more than in previous years. <...> We [the DOM.RF development institution – ed.] have a separate division and a separate KPI for the Far East. It is completely separate, and we will develop a dedicated set of tools for the region. We have offices here, we will build a team and do everything
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Young and Smart: The City of the Future in the Far East
We have reached out to every governor in the Far Eastern Federal District and the Ministry for the Development of the Far East and Arctic and proposed developing a socially subsidized mortgage
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Young and Smart: The City of the Future in the Far East
A mayor comes in and says, ‘everything that was done before me gets thrown out,’ deferring to public opinion. <...>  We continue to develop things, they shelve everything. And then new mayors come along and start developing things from the ground up all over again
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Young and Smart: The City of the Future in the Far East
The current rates of housing construction in the Russian Far East is currently lower than the Russian national average, access to housing is lower than the national average, pricewise – on the level of the Russian national average <...> 47% of residents will never buy housing, even if we were to offer them a subzero mortgage – they wouldn't have the means
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Young and Smart: The City of the Future in the Far East
Aside from economic issues, of course, you must also create an environment. Environment in a global sense. That is why Russian President Vladimir Putin prioritized this (Housing and Urban Environment - Ed.) national project <...>.  We need public spaces, business centres, and social infrastructure
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Character of a City Defined by Urban Habits
We now teach a hundred people a year for free, take them all over the world, show them urban approaches and best practices. These guys come back and become architects of our cities
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Character of a City Defined by Urban Habits
Today, every region must be given an opportunity to develop its potential. Select the competitive advantages of each region, encourage them and give them opportunities
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Character of a City Defined by Urban Habits
Standards, a master plan, an urban strategy, but most importantly the people. Ask the people. We sometimes overthink and impose some concepts that are not close to them. People want to enjoy living, go out with their family, go somewhere with the kids, get modern services
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Innovations and Investment Driving Broad Regional Development
DOM.RF is now offering another mechanism. It will be very simple: we borrow money on the market, issue our own bond – DOM.RF is a stable financial institution – and then we offer long-term money at 3–4% for either a developer or a development corporation that the region chooses today. The region should basically act as a surety, and we guarantee the entire stability of the structure […] We want the regions to be able to use the entire range of the infrastructure menu [...] We can simulate [...] it will be possible to get a budget loan, for example, for interchanges or for roads, and take our long-term money – a loan starting from 15 years at 3–4% – [and invest it] in infrastructure: internal roads, networks, and then put it all into one project
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Innovations and Investment Driving Broad Regional Development
The key issue now is the projects that the regions should have. We still have a lot of questions in this regard. We are just starting out, but we want the regions that have projects to be more energetic in announcing them
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Innovations and Investment Driving Broad Regional Development
The infrastructure menu that is being offered to the country’s regions today is extensive and includes three general lines: a budget loan of RUB 500 billion, and another RUB 500 billion in funds that remain in the region and don’t have to be returned to the federal budget so that they can be spent on infrastructure. And the proposal that has now been delegated to us is infrastructure bonds: we expect to invest about RUB 150 billion in construction over the next three years
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Investments into the Urban Environment
Last year, we launched a training programme called ‘Architect of Russia’; 105 people have already gone through the training. Forty of them are now holding positions of architects in various small towns. <…> And this year we are launching another batch of 100 people
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Investments into the Urban Environment
Speaking of new construction, we have to double it and in five years create a third of housing fund; so, there is no question we cannot do that without comprehensive territory development and territory renovation
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Investments into the Urban Environment
City is a manifestation of the national project. Everyone should get involved and contribute to the comfortability of urban environment. The government began allocating budget funds for these projects. Over these years, we are going to spend more than 300 billion roubles on creation of comfortable urban environment. <…> By 2024, we need to ensure that 50% of our cities have comfortable environment
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Presentation of the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index
Rating is an important affair as it is a business assessment when each region takes a kind of exam
14.02.2019
Russian Investment Forum 2019
Regional Policy in the Context of Russia’s Spatial Development
The strategy highlighted 12 macro-regions, then each region got its definition. These are promising regions, these are geostrategic regions. But the main point is, the key goal in the coming years is to get rid of the differences in socio-economic development and living standards between different regions as soon as possible
14.02.2019
Russian Investment Forum 2019
National Projects and the Regions: Key Questions at the Beginning of the Road
We agreed to stop regulating the regions’ authority from the top-down; we agreed that there will be no more decisions that are not tied to specific financing. If we are making decisions, we need to transfer a corresponding source of income
14.02.2019
Russian Investment Forum 2019
Best Practices for Socioeconomic Development: Integrated Solutions for the Regions and Cities
From time to time we come up with something, we research, we have new teams join federal subjects... All of these tried and tested practices can be taken and immediately implemented. This year, 77 regions in the Russian Federation submitted over 700 projects to the competition. These are truly best practices, which have the support of local municipalities, federal subjects, but the most important thing is, that these are completed projects. They can then be collected and shared across Russia
25.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
Presentation of the Results of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index
There is a number of problems: administrative barriers, excessive pressure on business, additional checks, and we have been talking about this for the last several years, just passing the problem around