29.06.2022
16:45–18:15
Protection of Consumer Rights in Modern Civil Transactions: Ways of Finding a Balance
Congress Centre, conference hall B2
• What can be done to protect the consumer as foreign companies withdraw from the market? What new challenges exist, and how should they be addressed?
• Unfair practices – what will change on 1 September 2022, and what are the implications of the amendments to the law on protecting consumer rights?
• Specific aspects related to federal state control (supervision) of consumer protection this year. What are consumers most dissatisfied with?
• Software products as technically sophisticated consumer goods. What should take precedence – intellectual property rights holders or consumers of digital content?
• Consumer litigation practice: key aspects.
• Unfair practices – what will change on 1 September 2022, and what are the implications of the amendments to the law on protecting consumer rights?
• Specific aspects related to federal state control (supervision) of consumer protection this year. What are consumers most dissatisfied with?
• Software products as technically sophisticated consumer goods. What should take precedence – intellectual property rights holders or consumers of digital content?
• Consumer litigation practice: key aspects.
Moderator
Alexey Bobrovsky
Economic Observer
Panellists
Nataliya Belova
Executive Secretary, Working Group in the Field of Trade and Consumer Protection under the Subcommittee on Improving the Control (Supervisory) and Licensing Functions of Federal Bodies under the Government Commission for the Administrative Reform of the Executive Branch
Mikhail Orlov
State Secretary – Deputy Head, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing
Lidia Osaulenko
Head of the Consumer Protection Division, Eurasian Economic Commission
Oleg Prusakov
Head of Department, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing
Petr Shelish
Chairman, All-Russian Union
Public Associations "Union of Consumers of the Russian Federation"
Front row participant
Mikhail Krotov
Judge, The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Broadcast

Alexey Bobrovsky
Economic Observer
Alexey Bobrovsky was born on 15 August 1981. In 2002, he graduated from the Journalism Department of the Modern University for the Humanities in Moscow. He has worked as reporter and host on the TV-Centre Channel, Channel 1, Radio Station Business-FM. Since 2009, he has authored and presented the Kurs Dnya [Daily Rate of Exchange] on the Russia-24 TV Channel, Head of the Channel’s Service of Economic News. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Internet site Vestifinance.ru. Since 2016, he has been General Producer of Vestfinance Forum – a new interactive platform, featuring Andrey Klepach, Boris Titov, Alexander Novak, Ksenia Yudaeva and other authoritative economic experts.

Nataliya Belova
Executive Secretary, Working Group in the Field of Trade and Consumer Protection under the Subcommittee on Improving the Control (Supervisory) and Licensing Functions of Federal Bodies under the Government Commission for the Administrative Reform of the Executive Branch

Mikhail Orlov
State Secretary – Deputy Head, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing
Lidia Osaulenko
Head of the Consumer Protection Division, Eurasian Economic Commission
Oleg Prusakov
Head of Department, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing
Petr Shelish
Chairman, All-Russian Union
Public Associations "Union of Consumers of the Russian Federation"

Mikhail Krotov
Judge, The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation