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.

Vadim  Shumkov

Vadim Shumkov

Governor of the Kurgan region
Quotes
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
The Transformation of Russia’s Construction, Housing and Utilities Industry
First of all, we create development plans for all municipalities that involve all national projects’ facilities: infrastructure, utilities, etc. We include investment programmes and organizations with resources in the same plan. We also include all our plans that require support from the regional budget. Why do we need it? To help any construction investor or citizen see when, what year and where we will have roads, light, gas, or wastewater disposal and plan their investments accordingly. As for construction. We have initiated two regional laws: one was already passed; the other one is being reviewed. The first one stipulates that we give 0.20–1 hectare to locals of Kurgan Region for free in case they either have a child or construct any residential building on the allocated land plot. The second one stipulates that we provide two types of wood at a discounted rate: it can be either stumpage under federal or appropriate regional laws, or a prefabricated house at a discounted rate as well, so that after getting the land for free people could get a house fast and cheaper
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