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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Elena Zelentsova

Elena Zelentsova

Head of the Department of Territorial Development, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
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03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Art-window to Asia: Strategies and Prospects of Building Sustainable Economic Relations
The tool everybody keeps talking about is art residency. It is something that needs to be discussed in Primorye. It is an important tool that help us get to know each other
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Art-window to Asia: Strategies and Prospects of Building Sustainable Economic Relations
Activity of modern cultural institutions go beyond communicating cultural and artistic values. They integrate processes in the urban environment, society, education, and international ties
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Art-window to Asia: Strategies and Prospects of Building Sustainable Economic Relations
The Far East does not have much art that would be internationally recognized. Mostly everything cultural or artistic happens in the central part of Russia
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Art-window to Asia: Strategies and Prospects of Building Sustainable Economic Relations
Peter I opened the window to Europe, while we want to open the window to Asia. When it comes to Vladivostok, it is not just a window – the doors are open
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
The Role of Creative Spaces in Today’s Business Environment
In a manner, we have to reassemble strategies for cities. This would enable us to identify the strong points of a district and its specific features, study the possibilities provided by its spaces, and from that, build city programmes
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
The Role of Creative Spaces in Today’s Business Environment
We are accustomed to viewing the creative industries as a union of culture and economics. It is now vital to add a third component – the development of urban spaces. <...>The features of city districts must be taken into account, and must be cultivated via the creative industries specifically
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
The Role of Creative Spaces in Today’s Business Environment
We can and must open creative clusters, but their quantity alone should not serve as an indicator. It seems to me that our cities are in particular need of a systemic and space-based approach to the anonymous outlying districts. We have become accustomed to the fact that during the Soviet period, our cities developed inorganically. We did everything according to established regulations, and these districts are not being managed by the residents themselves. We are always bemoaning this, but it is also down to the fact that a commuting culture prevails: in the morning the people travel to work in the centre, and in the evening they return to their residential districts. Consequently, these districts remain faceless areas of a city – places where we merely sleep
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
The Role of Creative Spaces in Today’s Business Environment
A notable characteristic of our cities is an extremely lopsided allocation of resources