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 208 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 180 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 81 countries worldwide, and 186 Russian public organizations, federal and legislative agencies, and federal subjects.

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.

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Igor Shchegolev

Igor Shchegolev

Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District
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17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Best Practices for Involving the Private Sector in Efforts to Accomplish National Development Goals
The development goals outlined in the decrees of the President [of Russia Vladimir Putin. – Ed.], cannot be achieved only by the efforts of the state. It is clear that certain efforts must also be made on the part of business. <...> It is not even the absolute numbers that this or that company will operate that are important, it is important that it becomes fashionable to have many children, and that our citizens understand that not only the state welcomes this, but there are also employers who believe that this is right and are ready to support it
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Best Practices for Involving the Private Sector in Efforts to Accomplish National Development Goals
The ESG agenda emerged as an attempt of developing countries to redistribute rental income from resource-rich countries in their favour. Besides, it is trying to impose values that directly contradict those in our Constitution. Therefore, we probably should not follow the ESG agenda completely. And we are thinking of how to form our own agenda based on those principles and approaches of the ESG agenda that are close to us
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Best Practices for Involving the Private Sector in Efforts to Accomplish National Development Goals
Despite the fact that the district is growing in absolute terms [the population in the regions of the Central Federal District. – Ed.], most of the growth is achieved by moving people from other regions, the population itself is not growing. Unfortunately, this trend is not new, and it is already quite stable. Of course, we are also thinking about how to reverse this trend, because if we don’t grow in number, then what is the point of trying to develop our economy in the end… Despite any technology, the size of the population has a serious impact – this is both the size of the market and the potential for development. Therefore, the larger the population, the greater the power of the macro-region or state
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Best Practices for Involving the Private Sector in Efforts to Accomplish National Development Goals
Sometimes there is a temptation to invest in projects that are probably not the most promising and not the most advanced, with low salaries and with jobs that will be taken by an influx of migrants. It is clear that this is not quite what we need. Now, when the demand for these investments is higher than ever… it is important that these investments are of a high quality. And quality should not always be determined by purely economic indicators
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Best Practices for Involving the Private Sector in Efforts to Accomplish National Development Goals
We have developed an agenda concept that we called the EHS (Ecology, Human Resources, State). It is designed to determine the company’s degree of health and could help both society and the state evaluate to a degree the quality of said company based on the assessment, and base the cooperation with the company on that assessment. <...> The assessment of these three factors and a rating system could become a foundation for a new quality of relations between companies and the state. They can come down not only to certain penalties, which we use as a whip to force companies to comply with certain rules, but also to the so-called positive discrimination, when companies with a higher rating have certain advantages in relations with the state
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Economic Mythology and the Problem of Sustainable Development
We have created a centre for such indicative planning under our District’s Investment Council. Let me remind you that in pursuance with the presidential order each district has an investment pleni-potentiary, who is in charge of dealing with investors
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Economic Mythology and the Problem of Sustainable Development
A normal economic growth is only possible if the aggregate birth rate <…> exceeds 2. <…> The Rus-sian Federation has 1.5 on average. If we keep in mind that some families have only one child, the solution is to raise the number of families with multiple children. This is precisely what the Presi-dent said. <…> This is what the Demography national project should focus on
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Economic Mythology and the Problem of Sustainable Development
If our demographic situation continues to develop or degrade at the same rate as now, the ques-tion is who are we trying so hard for? If the pessimistic forecasts are right and the population con-tinues to decline, what economic growth can we really expect?
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Economic Mythology and the Problem of Sustainable Development
Economic development will not be possible without new jobs and operations. <…> We target a growth of 27% at the current investment-to-GDP ratio, while over the last 10 years we have not been able to exceed 20%. We believe that if regions are on their own, this breakthrough will be unattainable
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Economic Mythology and the Problem of Sustainable Development
A rapid population growth as a feature of developing countries is a popular myth. <…> It is not true. <…> We are far behind <…> a whole number of developed countries. <…> Another popular myth is that population growth means costs. We believe it means investing in the future
05.09.2019
EEF 2019
Increasing the Investment Appeal of the Far East
One window investment decision-making: investors see a full set of projects offered in the district, and <...> decide in favour of an investment team
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
Central Russia: New Opportunities for Investors
We view the investment plans of 18 regions as a comprehensive proposal to investors from the entire district. The investor has the option of increasing returns on a project through leveraging the advantages offered by each region. One place may have lower energy tariffs, while somewhere else may have the requisite infrastructure already in place. <...> By involving several regions from the start, we can significantly expand the range of profitable business sectors
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
Central Russia: New Opportunities for Investors
Last year, trade with Japan increased by 21%, with South Korea by 34%, and with China by 35%. In addition, talks took place in June this year between the leaders of Russia and China. <...> A new form of interregional collaboration between the Central Federal District and Northern China was announced
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
Central Russia: New Opportunities for Investors
As of the beginning of September, the Investment Council has created a portfolio of 208 projects worth a total of USD 15 billion. This is the first project for proposals. An online resource has been specially developed (selectcr.site)