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.

Svetlana  Sagaydak

Svetlana Sagaydak

General Director, Bid Committee, Expo 2025 (September 2017 - June 2018)
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25.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
The City of the Future
As soon as we took a look at our site of 555 hectares, this is actually a new district that will grow into Yekaterinburg, we thought that we cannot get away from this. This is not just the construction of Expo Park, but this is also all of the territory that will be adjacent to it. And then the idea was born. <...> Why don’t we build a city there, as we say, the city of the future? <...> The absolute trend is that there is a concentration of population. Now more than 50% of the inhabitants of the Earth live in cities, in 2020 they will already make 70 percent; there is a concentration of population, we observe it everywhere. Also, the life model has changed significantly, we spend 6 hours or more on the Internet, the labour market is forming in a completely different way
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