February 2019 – Russia Singapore Business Council

Rossotrudnichestvo and Roscongress are to join efforts to prepare international events involving Russia

Roscongress Foundation Chairman of the Board and CEO Alexander Stuglev held a meeting in Moscow with Director of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) Eleonora Mitrofanova during which they discussed opportunities for expanding cooperation in order to develop Russia’s economic and investment potential as well as strengthen its image on the world stage through the implementation of joint projects during multilateral international events with an economic focus organized by the Foundation.

“The forums organized by the Roscongress Foundation are the primary platforms in Russia for business development. In particular, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is a global event that brings together roughly 17,000 participants from more than 140 countries each year. The Eastern Economic Forum and the International Arctic Forum are regional events that are essential to business development and a discussion of issues in the corresponding region. Roscongress has also been successful in holding industry events such as Russian Energy Week. All these events offer colossal opportunities for dialogue on themes concerning international development”, Adviser to the Russian President Anton Kobyakov said.

Stuglev said there is potential in the use of expert platforms for activities involving international humanitarian cooperation that aim to strengthen collaboration among Russian and foreign expert and scientific circles. “The Foundation offers unique infrastructure for exchanging information between representatives of the government as well as expert and business communities involved in formulating the content of forums. Our broad mission is to carry out foreign policy objectives to promote and position the interests of the Russian Federation at the international level and provide assistance in shaping a positive image of Russia and its foreign policy. We need to form a unified plan whereby specialists from the Foundation and Rossotrudnichestvo are able to implement numerous truly useful projects both for our country and for the international community as a whole”, Stuglev said.

Rossotrudnichestvo Deputy Director Mikhail Bryukhanov spoke about prospects for cooperation in facilitating international development and the feasibility of involving foreign centres of the Russian Federation in the promotion of the Roscongress Foundation’s activities. “The Agency and Roscongress will sign a cooperation agreement in the near future. The bulk of attention will be paid to information collaboration, joint efforts to prepare international events, and the promotion of a positive image of Russia abroad”, Bryukhanov said.

The meeting participants singled out international forums where they could work together as actively as possible since the agenda of their business programme is highly conducive to maintaining and developing a practical dialogue between governments and organizations. This list includes the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2019, the Eastern Economic Forum, the ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ International Arctic Forum, the Russian Investment Forum, and Russian Energy Week.

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Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of international conventions, exhibitions and public events.

The Roscongress Foundation was founded in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential and strengthening the country’s image by organizing international conventions, exhibitions, and public events. The Foundation develops substantive content for such events, providing companies and organizations with advice, information, and expert guidance, and offering comprehensive evaluation, analysis, and coverage of the Russian and global economic agendas. It offers administrative services and promotional support for business projects and helps to attract investment, including in the form of public-private partnerships.

Today, its annual programme includes events held from Montevideo to Vladivostok, offering an opportunity to bring together global business leaders, experts, the media, and government officials in one place, creating favourable conditions for dialogue and the promotion of new ideas and projects, and assisting in the creation of social enterprise and charity projects.

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Singapore is a point of access to APR for Moscow region

Deputy Chairman of the Russia-Singapore Business Council Sergey Pronin made a presentation at the case session “Entering foreign markets: strategy, support, result” within the framework of the 3rd Forum of Moscow region exporters, which took place in the Government House of Moscow region. The main theme of the session was the definition of non-resource-based exports of small and middle-sized business as a key driver for the development of foreign economic activities of Moscow region. The participants discussed government and region support measures as well as export perspectives for the products of the exporters of Moscow region in different areas of the world.

Sergey Pronin mentioned that RSBC was developing several instruments supposed to increase foreign economic activities of Russian companies. Among the key instruments he highlighted the information and service B2B Platform RSTrade and the Centre for overseas promotion of Russian high-tech companies and the presentation of investment projects founded by the Council in Singapore. At the Platform, integrated with GISP, there are already represented about 82000 companies from 20 countries. Technical integration of the module with the biggest digital logistic platform CamelONE managed by De Cloud company group (Singapore). Automation of the processes of foreign economic activities should contribute to better sourcing of suppliers and customers among foreign partners. This will also reduce the time and resources spent on foreign economic activities procedures. Moreover, this should in whole increase turnover of goods and services as well as technology transfer. At the base of the Centre in Singapore it is possible to represent products and solutions both in digital and “live” formats, hold meetings, organize a presentation. Personnel of the Centre also provide the search of joint solutions of engineering companies from Russia and ASEAN countries to extend the range of exported products and to increase their marginality.

Singapore is the largest foreign trade partner for Russia in Southeast Asia. Singapore now plays a special role for Russian exporters also because the negotiations on a free trade zone between Eurasian Economic Union and the Republic of Singapore are in their final stage. The conclusion of this agreement will make it possible to use Singapore infrastructure not only as an international financial, transport and technological hub of APR, but also as a window for export for all EAEU companies during their foreign economic activities with ASEAN countries. By the way, IV International Business Forum “Russia-Singapore Business Dialogue” held by the Russia-Singapore Business Council will also contribute to expanding contacts between the authorities and business community of the two countries.

Russian Regions to Present Their Achievements at Russian Investment Forum Exhibition

The Russian Investment Forum that will take place in Sochi on 13–15 February invites the participants to visit the Exhibition. It will involve 42 regions of the Russian Federation and 13 organizations (businesses and government agencies) that are going to present their projects at the Exhibition.

The regions will showcase their advances in crucial areas of economy, technology development, growing tourism and investment potential, and implementation of national projects.

Penza Region, in particular, will present breakthrough projects and promising opportunities for investment in the Region’s major focal areas such as bioenergy and advanced grain processing. Tver Region will showcase a high-resolution spacecraft for remote surveying of the Earth. Ryazan Region’s stand will focus on digital transformation of the Region: medical tourism, telemedicine, transformation of the public officer’s workplace, CDO school, electronic university, opening an innovation centre for science and technology, and promising investment platforms. The interactive display of Moscow will present infrastructure and financial opportunities of the city for investors: developed urban environment, public-private partnership mechanisms, new platforms for business localization, industrial complexes and technoparks for establishing high-tech operations. The Republic of Bashkortostan will showcase promising investment proposals in areas such as processing industries, agriculture industry, transport, and road construction. Novosibirsk Region will present the local priority project entitled ‘Development of Novosibirsk Science Centre (Akademgorodok 2.0)’ – projects on development of research and innovative infrastructure, and creation of high-tech facilities based on large scientific projects, end-to-end projects from fundamental research to high-tech products.

The stand of the North Caucasus Development Corporation JSC (including the Republic of Dagestan, the Republic of Ingushetia, the Karachay–Cherkess Republic, the Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, Stavropol Territory, and the Chechen Republic) will tell the visitors about the economic potential and resorts of the North Caucasian Federal District, provide the presentation of the national cable car system and distribute free ski passes for ski resorts of Arkhyz, Elbrus, and Veduchi.

The stand of Tatarstan will invite the forum participants to see the presentation of competences as part of the ‘WorldSkills Kazan 2019’ world championship in professional skills: master classes on creation of virtual simulators and development of neural interfaces.

The stands will offer visitors traditional food from various regions of Russia: traditional Caucasian dishes, delicacies from Krasnodar Region, authentic Udmurtian perepechi and many others.

For more information about the exhibitors see the official website of the Russian Investment Forum. Organized by the Roscongress Foundation.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of international conventions, exhibition and public events.

The Roscongress Foundation was founded in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential and strengthening the country’s image by organizing international conventions, exhibitions, and public events. The Foundation develops substantive content for such events, providing companies and organizations with advice, information, and expert guidance, and offering comprehensive evaluation, analysis, and coverage of the Russian and global economic agendas. It offers administrative services and promotional support for business projects and helps to attract investment, including in the form of public-private partnerships.

www.roscongress.org

Vneshekonmbak and REC will work out a funding programme for export-oriented industries

Vneshekonombank together with the Russian Export Centre is going to work out a joint funding programme for projects on establishing or modernization of export-oriented industries in 2019. This is outlined in materials for national projects published on the site of the Government of the Russian Federation (link: http://government.ru/).

Other development institutions will also be involved in the elaboration, as indicated in the materials.

A unified system for support of exports is also expected to be formed in 2020 in key foreign countries and in all regions of the Russian Federation.

In general, the national project “International cooperation and export” stipulates government investment of 956,8 billion roubles before the end of 2024. The national project includes five federal projects: “Industrial exports”, “Exports of agro-industrial products”, “Export of services” and “Systematic measures for international cooperation and export development”. The largest provision is stipulated for the federal project “Industrial exports” (423,8 billion roubles before 2024) and “Exports of agro-industrial products” (406,8 billion roubles before 2024).

Source: https://tass.ru/nacionalnye-proekty/6100007

Projects of RSDS represented at Rostec’s innovative session

The ninth innovative session of the State corporation Rostec enterprises took place in Yekaterinburg at the base of Ural optical and mechanical plant (UOMP) – one of the most successful enterprises of Shvabe holding – on January 31 – February 1. It was organized at the initiative of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Corporation.

Beside prospective technological and organizational innovative developments and implementations of the enterprises of Rostec there was also represented a number of the projects of partner organizations. Among those were the development projects of RSTrade trade and service B2B platform and Centre for overseas promotion of Russian high-tech companies and the presentation of investment projects. These projects are implemented by the Russia-Singapore Business Council and its executive structures.

By the way, UOMP, Shvabe and many other enterprises of the holdings of Rostec are represented both at the Platform and in the Centre.

CSO of RSTradehouse LLC Andrey Bykov and Head of sales Ruslan Verba spoke to about 250 delegates.

The session resulted in a decision to increase interaction between the enterprises of the Corporation and their partners to develop the innovative potential, especially in civilian production, as well as in formulation of the recommendations on variants of production diversification and development of the most prospective technologies for their commercialization.

Executive Director of the Council Sergey Pronin took part in the international forum on digitalization

Forum “Digital agenda in the era of globalization» took place in Almaty on February 1, 2019. Heads of government of the EAEU countries, heads of the EEC, statesmen of different countries, businessmen, public persons, scientists and members of the media took part in this forum.

Within the coordination session “Digital agenda of EAEU”, which was organized by the European Economic Commission, there took place a presentation of the Executive Director of the Council, CEO of RSTradehouse LLC Sergey Pronin. He represented a project of the further integration of two international digital platforms – RSTrade, managed by RSTradehouse (Russia), and CamelONE, managed by the company group vCargo Cloud (Singapore). Special attention was payed to the perspectives of this project being used within the implementation of the digital agenda of EAEU and its interaction with the markets of other macro-regions and integration unions, such as ASEAN.

Among the main theses there should be mentioned:

Integration will provide a new universal multilingual technical solution;
This solution is capable for the further integration in the EAEU and ASEAN projects, and we are open to that;
It will provide automation tools for the selection of goods and services, foreign economic activities, engineering and financial services, as well as contract manufacturing;
It helps to attract the interest of potential partners from different countries and to increase the turnover;
It promotes the development of a competitive environment among users, both commodity producers and service providers, reduces the total value of goods and services while maintaining profits;
“One-window” interface is convenient for users;
Operation algorithms provide protection of the information and high speed of work;
Companies, products and services become more recognizable, search and selection is convenient;
Payments can be made in different in various currencies and variants.

The presentation can be found on this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RCl8YSFgTOYwmJ-qWbUZ5KHiK3Iiv19u/view?usp=sharing

The presentation aroused serious interest of the audience. This is particularly relevant as RSTrade platform is becoming a part of a consortium implementing the project to create a unified technology transfer platform within the EAEU under the auspices of the EEC.

Russian Investment Forum Organizing Committee approves business programme

The Organizing Committee of the Russian Investment Forum held a meeting chaired by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak in Moscow on 31 January.

The members of the Organizing Committee discussed preparations for the Forum and approved the business programme for the event at the meeting.

A plenary session will be held with the prime minister in attendance on 14 February. In addition, Medvedev will hold his traditional meeting with representatives of the business community as part of the Forum’s business programme and also take part in the session ‘Economics of Urban Comfort’. The prime minister will also hold a meeting with the heads of Russia’s regions at the venue.

Organizing Committee Chairman Dmitry Kozak spoke about the focus of the Forum’s business programme: “The main topic of the Forum is ‘National Projects: From Strategy to Action’. We are transitioning to the practical implementation of all national projects in 2019, and the Russian Investment Forum is a key platform for showcasing all the decisions that have been made to implement the national projects with the involvement of business and the regional authorities”.

Adviser to the Russian President and Executive Secretary of the Russian Investment Forum Organizing Committee Anton Kobyakov said: “The business programme has generated lively interest among the expert community, ministries, and agencies responsible for the focuses. There are 55 events planned in the programme in three thematic areas: regional policy, business climate in Russia, and the social agenda. As of 31 January 2019, over 3,000 people from 60 countries had confirmed they would be taking part in the Forum. Eighty heads of Russia’s regions will attend, and 1,300 media representatives have been registered”.

The most prominent representatives of Russian business are: LUKOIL Oil Company President Vagit Alekperov; Gazprom Chairman of the Management Committee Alexey Miller; Skolkovo Foundation President Viktor Vekselberg; Sberbank CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board Herman Gref; AFK Sistema Chairman of the Board of Directors Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Gazprom Neft Chairman of the Management Board Alexander Dyukov, Mechel Chairman of the Board of Directors Igor Zyuzin, and Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works Chairman of the Board of Directors Viktor Rashnikov, among others.

Representatives of such foreign companies as METRO Cash & Carry, Fitch Ratings, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, will take part in the Forum.

The ‘Healthy Life Forum: Towards 80+’ will be held on 13 February, the opening day of the Russian Investment Forum. The Forum will serve as a specialized platform that will seek out and develop practical proposals for the implementation of national projects that aim to solve the problem of increasing the healthy life expectancy of Russian citizens.

The Russian Investment Forum will also feature Youth Entrepreneurship Day, which is being organized by the Roscongress Foundation together with the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh).

There will also be an exhibition of the Russian Investment Forum operating at the venue. The exhibition will consist of expositions from 41 of Russia’s regions and 11 organizations (companies and government agencies). The exhibition will include a Case Zone, which provides a communication platform where participants can demonstrate their projects to leading investment experts.

The Forum venue will also feature a Social Impact Lounge, a platform developed by the Roscongress Foundation to integrate the social agenda into the country’s biggest business forums. The Lounge is a unique communication space that brings together non-profit organizations, business, and the government to discuss pertinent social development issues.

The business programme is available on the official website of the Russian Investment Forum.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of international conventions, exhibition and public events.