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.

Mikhail Shamolin

Mikhail Shamolin

President, Chairman of the Board, Segezha Group
Quotes
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Transformation of Business to Spur Economic Growth
Russia ranks first in the world in terms of forest resources, while the intensity of its use stands only at about 30% compared to the global leaders – Europe, US, and Canada. And we have a very long road ahead for the industry development, because the potential is huge; Russia’s share in the global market for timber products is very low, it should be much higher
05.09.2019
EEF 2019
Countries Competing for Economic Growth: What is Russia's Plan?
Among my colleagues, managers and entrepreneurs, there is not a single person that believes that, if a prosecutor were to come into court and demand that they be locked up in a detention facility, there might be even a single judge that would disagree with the prosecutor and not sign the order. Mentality-wise, businesses do not expect to be granted the right to a defence. It is difficult to anticipate economic growth while this continues
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
From Raw Materials to Advanced Processing: Achieving Growth in the Forestry Sector
The prime cost of Finnish products that are delivered to the global pulp market and to consumers is around USD 500 per tonne of pulp. In Russia, given the prime cost and potential of Russian timber, we can offer the cost of USD 350. If we started developing this industry in Russia, we could squeeze the Finnish out and have 20% of the pulp market instead of current 2%