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.

Vladimir Salamatov

Vladimir Salamatov

professor, MGIMO University; Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Economic Relations with Trading Partner Countries of EAEU Business Council
Quotes
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
The New Framework of Global Economic Cooperation: What’s Better and What’s Worse
We should probably not simply look for partners, but create free economic zones with foreign companies, so that we can to a certain degree overcome the sanctions, including secondary sanctions. That is there should be a conversation about substantially rethinking the industrial action we should take to maintain a high technological level in this sector
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
The New Framework of Global Economic Cooperation: What’s Better and What’s Worse
Our partners are BRICS, our partners are SCO, and we Russians need to understand that in a year, in a month or even in 10 years, the situation where we find ourselves, which the previous speakers have described so well, will not change. We will live and work in a harsh environment, but we have plenty of examples of how we can find unorthodox solutions in this situation and achieve excellent results. I think we can do it
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
The New Framework of Global Economic Cooperation: What’s Better and What’s Worse
The impact on manufacturing has been far worse, of course: we have lost our partners in high-tech sectors. What should we do in this situation? We understand that making a quick breakthrough is tough, and we will probably not be able to move forwards across the board, that all the technology we got from the West can be found at home and developed for, as they say, import substitution
05.09.2019
EEF 2019
Including the Far East in Global Value Chains: Effective Strategies
I would like to break down the difficulties we must overcome today when forming chains into several elements. The first element would be traditional barriers. The second one is the simplification of customs procedures and the implementation of the one-stop principle. And, of course, there is a very important issue related the rules of origin and their application. <...> We have looked at all the existing statistics and come to the conclusion that lowering the barriers to value chain creation can lead to a five-percent increase in foreign trade, and that simple duties zeroing will result in a four times smaller effect