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.

Nikita  Kuprikov

Nikita Kuprikov

Director, Polar Initiative
Quotes
10.04.2019
International Arctic Forum 2019
The Accessible Arctic: Standards, Safety, and Sustainability
The strategic objective is the development of polar operations management system. <...> With peer support from Rostec State Corporation, we managed to transit from corporate standardization to hyphenated standards. Now we want to implement it in a machine-readable format so that the Arctic standards could stay relevant
10.04.2019
International Arctic Forum 2019
Aircraft First: Developing the Aviation Sector in the Arctic
One of our strategic tasks is to ensure integrated safety of rescue operations in the Arctic. Apart from Arctic military centres and passenger flights, our Ministry, EMERCOM of Russia, focuses on creating a network of rescue centres and equipping them with machines, including aircraft
10.04.2019
International Arctic Forum 2019
Aircraft First: Developing the Aviation Sector in the Arctic
For aircraft exploitation in the Arctic we need to understand that over the last years more than 40% of the Arctic ice has melted. And under such conditions we continue using the aircraft that were flying 10, 20 or 30 years ago