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.

Karima Nigmatulina-Maschitskaya

Karima Nigmatulina-Maschitskaya

General Director, Vi Holding
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23.10.2019
Russia- Africa Economic Forum 2019
Collaboration in Industry: Potential Areas of Growth
At present, Vi Holding, in collaboration with Afreximbank, the state-owned Giprotsvetmet company, and Russian Export Center, is developing a new platform, including on the sidelines of this Forum, which will become a major project to create a large-scale interstate platform for the implementation of mining projects in African countries. We are talking about developing an integrated system of collaboration between Russia and the African countries, pan-African financial institutions, and investors that are interested in doing so in order to create tools to fund geological exploration and prospecting that are to be carried out mainly by specialized Russian organizations. This also implies getting Russian business structures involved in the commercial development of deposits according to the priority list of resources and under state guarantees from African states
23.10.2019
Russia- Africa Economic Forum 2019
Collaboration in Industry: Potential Areas of Growth
Our presence in Africa began more than ten years ago in 2008 with the acquisition of the bauxite mining company Sierra Mineral Holdings (SMHL). To date, production has exceeded 3 million tonnes, including 2 million tonnes of high-quality bauxite that is exported […]. Now we are pushing forward with the construction of a hydrated plant. The project involves the establishment of the first enterprise [in Sierra Leone] for the processing of non-metallurgical products with high added value. It will have capacity of 200,000 tonnes of aluminium hydrate per year
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