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29 June–01 July 2022
Law, Business, and Sanctions
People and Law
Law in International Relations
Digital Transformation
Control, Oversight and Regulation
Justice and Litigation
Plenary Session
Law, Business, and Sanctions
People and Law
Law in International Relations
Digital Transformation
Control, Oversight and Regulation
Justice and Litigation
Plenary Session
08:00
30.06.2022
30.06.2022
08:30–09:30
08:30–09:30
Broadcast The Russian Model of Business and Government Interaction: Historical Experience and Future Outlook
Юридический завтрак в рамках ПМЮФ-2022
The event will be broadcast on the Pravo.ru website
ExpoForum, Shushary, Petersburg highway, 62, building 1, conference hall 7, Hilton
On 30 July, a legal breakfast entitled ‘The Russian Model of Business and Government Interaction: Historical Experience and Future Outlook” will be held as part of SPILF. Taking part are: Pavel Krasheninnikov, Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on State Building and Legislation; Vladimir Gruzdev, Chairman of the Board, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Andrei Nazarov, Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan; members of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and leading lawyers among others. Boris Boltyanskiy, Editor-in-Chief, Pravo.ru, will be moderating. The breakfast will discuss the development of business culture and national jurisdiction, as well as relations between government and business. Particular attention will be given to improving legislation and tools for state regulation that could have a noticeable impact on economic growth in the short term. In the context of current economic and political challenges, the relationship between government and business is undergoing significant transformation, particularly in the legal system regulating these relations. How should the transition from anti-crisis policy to development policy be legislated in the context of sanctions pressure? What unique features define the legal protection of businesses from external threats? Can the evolution of an independent national jurisdiction be viewed as a competitive advantage for Russian business? What is special about the Russian model of interaction between business and government? Is sanction law a contemporary phenomenon in the context of the antagonism of the processes of globalization and state identity? What are the prospects for the contemporary legal services market? Such questions are of vital public interest in Russia.
Organizers of the Legal Breakfast: Association of Lawyers of Russia, Pravo.ru
Organizers of the Legal Breakfast: Association of Lawyers of Russia, Pravo.ru
Moderator
Alexander Tsypkin
10:00
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast The Digital Transformation of Judicial Enforcement
Congress Centre, conference hall B1
Modern life would be unthinkable without the active use of information technology. It is no different for the public authorities, whose most important tool for increasing efficiency is the digitalization of internal management processes and external interaction. In accordance with the national development goals of the Russian Federation for the period until 2030, as defined by the President of the Russian Federation, the Federal Bailiff Service shall seek to actively introduce information technology to its operations. The digitalization of enforcement is a recognised international trend and an objective necessity in current realities. The digital transformation of enforcement is a priority for the Service and is aimed at expanding the scope and ways of keeping the parties to enforcement proceedings informed and introducing the concept of openness to the activities of the enforcement authorities.
• Primary achievements in the automation of business processes in enforcement.
• Automation of the process, a ‘registry model’ for the execution of enforcement documents.
• Prospects for improving the legal and regulatory framework supporting digital inclusion.
• The automated processing of large volumes of information that is submitted in the course of enforcement proceedings and ensuring prompt interaction on the part of the bailiff with the parties to the enforcement proceedings and with public authorities.
• The activities of professional debt collectors: current status and priorities for development.
• Primary achievements in the automation of business processes in enforcement.
• Automation of the process, a ‘registry model’ for the execution of enforcement documents.
• Prospects for improving the legal and regulatory framework supporting digital inclusion.
• The automated processing of large volumes of information that is submitted in the course of enforcement proceedings and ensuring prompt interaction on the part of the bailiff with the parties to the enforcement proceedings and with public authorities.
• The activities of professional debt collectors: current status and priorities for development.
Moderator
Vladimir Gureev
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Anti-Corruption Compliance in the Context of Economic Sanctions
Congress Centre, conference hall B2
The global economic sanctions imposed on Russian businesses pose a number of challenges, including with regard to anti-corruption compliance. This session will focus on a range of aspects related to minimizing any possible negative impact experienced by Russian businesses:
• Anti-corruption compliance as a means of minimizing risk in the context of economic sanctions.
• The government’s role in building and implementing an anti-corruption compliance system for organizations.
• Raising awareness in the private sector of matters to do with tackling corruption in the new reality, and the need to do so.
• Digital transformation as assisting in anti-corruption compliance.
• Best practices in anti-corruption compliance in the context of economic sanctions.
• The need to include a sanctions-related clause in contracts (articles 406.1 and 431.2 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation).
• Anti-corruption compliance as a means of minimizing risk in the context of economic sanctions.
• The government’s role in building and implementing an anti-corruption compliance system for organizations.
• Raising awareness in the private sector of matters to do with tackling corruption in the new reality, and the need to do so.
• Digital transformation as assisting in anti-corruption compliance.
• Best practices in anti-corruption compliance in the context of economic sanctions.
• The need to include a sanctions-related clause in contracts (articles 406.1 and 431.2 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation).
Moderator
Vitaly Belinsky
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Inheritance Law: Balancing the Interests of Society and the Bequeather
Congress Centre, conference hall B3
The development of inheritance law in Russia is invariably linked to efforts to address social issues, namely, ensuring that an inheritance can support those who are unable to work, and who depended on the bequeather during their lifetime. If a will excludes someone who may have counted on receiving an inheritance, then regardless of the bequeather’s wishes, their dependant has a right to a share of the bequest. And in instances where the bequeather did not make a will, this social role is performed by an institution. Even the institution responsible for overseeing all stages of inheritance is required by law to describe its social role. The socioeconomic upheaval which began in Russia in the late 1980s, coupled with a growing sense of individualism among economically active citizens contributed to a re-examination of inheritance law’s social role. It was against this backdrop that the legislator saw fit to change rules in inheritance law covering mandatory shares (part 5, article 1,149 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). Meanwhile, the academic community is continuing to critically discuss the size and nature of so-called social payments from bequests. However, the importance of inheritance law not only stems from the desire of a person to pass on their material wealth to their descendants and to provide for family members in need. Inheritance law also helps ensure that the person’s wishes are fulfilled after their life has ended. This is done through inheritance contracts and inheritance funds. Inheritance encompasses a number of factors in the public consciousness. These include transferring material wealth to descendants, supporting dependants, and exerting a posthumous influence on the behaviour of loved ones and on what happens to a person’s assets.
Moderator
Pavel Krasheninnikov
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Corporate Governance: Responding to the Challenges Posed by Sanctions
Congress Centre, conference hall B4
The recent sanctions have highlighted like never before the importance of making the current legal regime more business friendly. In the pre-sanction era, any genuinely major initiative would be underpinned by foreign law. That was the case even if all parties involved were resident in Russia. This was due to the greater flexibility, lower costs, and better predictability that such an approach offered. However, this option is no longer available to Russian businesses, as any move to transfer an initiative to foreign legal entities would incur an additional risk. This is not to mention the ever-growing difficulties faced by Russian residents when it comes to opening businesses and maintaining accounts abroad, amongst others.
• Regulation affecting the acquisition of large blocks of shares in public joint stock companies: targeted reforms.
• Golden shares: an obsolete instrument, or a necessity?
• The reorganization of business entities: a useful tool helping businesses adapt to a crisis.
• Regulation affecting the acquisition of large blocks of shares in public joint stock companies: targeted reforms.
• Golden shares: an obsolete instrument, or a necessity?
• The reorganization of business entities: a useful tool helping businesses adapt to a crisis.
Moderator
Ilya Bolotnov
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Investment Projects in an Era of Turbulence: Effective Models and Legal Protection Mechanisms
Congress Centre, conference hall D1
Despite the economic changes in Russia, the need to implement large-scale investment projects remains. Mechanisms for implementing such projects are developing (concession, PPP) and new ones are appearing and are being prioritized (offset). Moreover, now it is important to maintain the stability of already launched long-term projects. Law practitioners in the investment sphere have developed tools that can be used to stabilize the deal for both private and public parties.
• Feasible mechanisms for implementing investment projects: from offsets to PPPs
• What investment tools and mechanisms do the regions need? Where can they get the money?
• Moscow's experience in implementing investment projects (offsets, Life-Cycle Contract, Special Investment Contract)
• Guarantees of rights and legitimate interests of the investor, as stipulated by law and the agreement
• Can there be guarantees of rights for the public party, etc.
• Feasible mechanisms for implementing investment projects: from offsets to PPPs
• What investment tools and mechanisms do the regions need? Where can they get the money?
• Moscow's experience in implementing investment projects (offsets, Life-Cycle Contract, Special Investment Contract)
• Guarantees of rights and legitimate interests of the investor, as stipulated by law and the agreement
• Can there be guarantees of rights for the public party, etc.
Moderator
Evgenia Zusman
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Protecting the Rights of Financial Consumers and Retail Investors: Striking a Balance
Congress Centre, conference hall D2
The Russian financial market is experiencing significant problems as it traverses the difficult path of adapting to new internal and external factors. Risks which may – or indeed, have – come to pass are affecting the financial figures of individual organizations and the sector as a whole. What’s more, they are affecting how well the market performs its main task – transforming savings and excess liquidity into investment in the real economy. In this environment, there is a great temptation to shift a number of problems onto the least-protected participants of the financial market, such as consumers of financial services, SMEs, and retail investors.
Moderator
Alexey Guznov
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Protecting the Rights of Compatriots: Maintaining Contact with Russia
Congress Centre, conference hall D3
Around 30 million Russians are living abroad today. Many of these people are in need of assistance, given the current unprecedented environment of persecution and discrimination on national, cultural, and other grounds. What measures should be taken to protect Russians abroad? What needs to be done to ensure that animosity and discrimination does not become an ideological norm? How can the law be used to combat chauvinistic behaviour towards Russians?
Moderator
Sergey Stepashin
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Pivot East: Legal Support for Mutual Investments
Congress Centre, conference hall D4
In 2021, Russia increased its trade with China and South Korea more than any other country save one. Trade between China and Russia was valued at USD 146.887 billion – a 35.8% increase compared to the year before. And in the first 9 months of 2021 alone, trade with South Korea grew by 60%, reaching a record USD 30 billion by the end of the year. In 2019, Russia was named one of the ten leading countries in EY’s European Attractiveness Survey, resulting in a 3.5-fold growth in direct investment in Russia. This trend continued in 2021, with direct investment in Russian companies reaching USD 30.7 billion – a 3.8-fold increase. Over the last few years, Russia has done much to expand cooperation with its eastern neighbours. There are numerous examples of significant investment projects which have benefitted from government support from the three nations. And in light of the current situation, Russia has every chance to boost cooperation with China and South Korea in 2022.
• Legal regulation of foreign investment in Russia. Current mechanisms and new initiatives by the Russian government.
• Sanctions and their impact on the investment climate: restrictive measures, or new opportunities?
• Financial settlements and currency restrictions: to what degree are these factors critical with regard to investment, imports, and exports? What are the prospects for making transactions in national currencies?
• Legal guarantees and protecting the interests of foreign businesses in an era of change.
• Legal regulation of foreign investment in Russia. Current mechanisms and new initiatives by the Russian government.
• Sanctions and their impact on the investment climate: restrictive measures, or new opportunities?
• Financial settlements and currency restrictions: to what degree are these factors critical with regard to investment, imports, and exports? What are the prospects for making transactions in national currencies?
• Legal guarantees and protecting the interests of foreign businesses in an era of change.
Moderator
Rustem Akhmetshin
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Legal Guidelines in the Digitalization of Healthcare: Availability of Medical Data as a Tool for Achieving Social Objectives
Congress Centre, conference hall E11
Digitalization in healthcare has become an increasingly important topic. The past 10–15 years have seen an increase in the quantity of large datasets being amassed. However, a number of issues regarding access to medical data remain unresolved. This session will focus on issues surrounding the processing of medical data, and approaches to reforming current regulation based on best international practices.
• The current state of digitalization in healthcare: possessing large datasets while being unable to access them.
• Collecting data from wearable devices for diagnostic purposes: the potential to use data, the quality of said data, and barriers.
• Legal issues stemming from regulation covering digitalization in healthcare: lack of access to IT systems, processing data, and validating data.
• Artificial intelligence in healthcare. Trends in the improvement of consent processes. The development of effective methods of anonymizing personal data.
• Validating large datasets: can all data be used, or should it be selected?
• Practical examples of AI technology being employed in healthcare: experimental legal regimes.
• The current state of digitalization in healthcare: possessing large datasets while being unable to access them.
• Collecting data from wearable devices for diagnostic purposes: the potential to use data, the quality of said data, and barriers.
• Legal issues stemming from regulation covering digitalization in healthcare: lack of access to IT systems, processing data, and validating data.
• Artificial intelligence in healthcare. Trends in the improvement of consent processes. The development of effective methods of anonymizing personal data.
• Validating large datasets: can all data be used, or should it be selected?
• Practical examples of AI technology being employed in healthcare: experimental legal regimes.
Moderator
Vitaliy Omelyanovskiy
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Social Entrepreneurship: Prospects for Legal Regulation
Pavilion F, conference hall F1
Social entrepreneurship plays an integral role in the socioeconomic development of a society. It contributes to the creation of a positive environment, fosters innovation, and supports public solidarity. This can all help put the necessary prerequisites in place to alleviate the consequences of the crisis. Given the impact that social entrepreneurship has on addressing key social issues during a crisis, it is crucial to take the steps needed to further foster it in Russia.
• How is the concept of social entrepreneurship in Russia understood (defining and identifying the criteria of social entrepreneurship)?
• Financing tools for social projects.
• What forms of support for social entrepreneurship need to be put in place?
• How is the concept of social entrepreneurship in Russia understood (defining and identifying the criteria of social entrepreneurship)?
• Financing tools for social projects.
• What forms of support for social entrepreneurship need to be put in place?
Moderator
Tatiana Medvedeva
30.06.2022
10:00–11:30
10:00–11:30
Broadcast Philosophy and Law
Pavilion F, conference hall F3
Russian philosophy of law is needed today like never before, and stands on par with its foreign counterparts. In modern society, the link between law and other social phenomena (including material and psychological factors) is clear to see. A break in this link can lead to the devaluation of law and legal nihilism. This in turn can increase tension in society and cause a rupture in socioeconomic relations. It is essential to examine a variety of topics in the context of general ideas covering the development of law, legal awareness, and legal thinking. Doing so can lead to a deep understanding of the processes taking place in today’s world. This session will focus on academic opinions and creative perspectives on the role and significance of philosophy of law as it pertains to social and humanitarian knowledge. It will also examine assessments and judgments concerning today’s global legal reality. In addition, participants will aim to reach an understanding of the development of modern civilization, the evolution of public and legal institutions, and philosophy of law in today’s world.
Moderator
Aleksandr Savenkov
11:00
30.06.2022
11:30–12:00
11:30–12:00
Broadcast Nuremberg: Verdict in the Name of Peace (Exhibition)
Passage, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation stand
The 20th century, more than any other, was marked by significant events that shaped the fate of humanity for many years hence. These included the Russian Revolution, two world wars, and the Manhattan Project, which resulted in the US dropping atomic bombs on Japan. It is the only time in history that nuclear weapons have been used indiscriminately on a civilian population. All these events occurred before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, which tried the Axis powers’ biggest Nazi war criminals. Today, more than seven decades on, a feeling of pride remains for the fact that civilization was capable of not only changing international law, but the entire world through the prohibition of aggression. This exhibition marks a first in Russian academic history by presenting and analysing the outcome of many years of fundamental academic research on the structure, content, and new legal developments to have emerged from the Nuremberg Trials. It also examines underlying legal theories and concepts by leading Soviet and international legal scholars, as well as various regulatory documents and materials to have emerged over the course of more than fifty years. The exhibition will feature the official text of the International Military Tribunal verdict. The exhibition has been designed for a wide audience, including government figures, community leaders, judges, people working at investigative bodies, researchers, university lecturers, representatives of government bodies, and people from local government departments. It will also be of interest to all those who care about the fate of the world, and who wish to learn the truth about the legal outcomes of the Second World War and the verdict that preserves peace on the planet. A number of talks given at a roundtable offer a full picture of the Nuremberg Trials, both by providing a formal legal assessment of their outcome, and by examining their impact on the development of international law.
12:00
30.06.2022
12:15–13:45
12:15–13:45
Broadcast Law in a Multipolar World
Congress Centre, Congress Hall
Moderator
Alexandra Suvorova
14:00
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Taking Care of Our Own: Legal Protection of Russian Businesses Abroad
Congress Centre, conference hall B1
Russian entrepreneurs doing business abroad have recently encountered a number of issues. These range from a corrosion of their rights to various forms of discrimination and the removal of entrepreneurial freedoms. A number of countries have taken political decisions which disregard established legal boundaries. What forms of legal protection do Russian entrepreneurs have recourse to? What countermeasures should be taken? What can be done to tackle discrimination faced by Russian businesses?
Moderator
Vladimir Pligin
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Legal Sovereignty as a Guarantee of National Security
Congress Centre, conference hall B2
Russia’s legal system is key to its statehood, founded as it is on traditional values and long-established concepts and principles. And in the face of global challenges and sanctions, the legal field has been tasked with identifying the answers to today’s difficult questions. A country’s sovereignty is not only based on political and economic principles, but legal ones as well. How can legal sovereignty help guarantee national security? What threats require action now? How will legal systems look in the near future?
Moderator
Vladimir Gruzdev
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Russia and Eurasia: A Shared Patent Space
Congress Centre, conference hall B3
In Eurasia, aspects related to intellectual property encompass both national and regional elements. In Russia, intellectual property is not only regulated by national legislation, but also by a number of international agreements. The development of regional registration systems has been a major achievement, since protection can now be obtained faster, more cheaply, and more easily across a number of countries simultaneously. However, there is still a wealth of untapped potential when it comes to using intellectual property to foster socioeconomic development in the region. Across Eurasia, work is under way to improve the regulatory framework underpinning the development of intellectual property ecosystems. What are the strategic areas and trends affecting the development of intellectual property in Eurasia? What legal mechanisms are required to support the development of the Eurasian intellectual property market? What new pathways are opening up in the development of intellectual property regulation? What is the role of regional integration bodies, and how will it change in the future? What are the prospects for creating a common space in the region with regards patents and product identifications?
Moderator
Grigory Ivliev
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Performance Criteria for Research: Legal Challenges and Prospects
Congress Centre, conference hall B4
The new geopolitical landscape is impacting international cooperation in science and education. The government has set the objective of reforming how scientific work is appraised in light of recent sanctions, with the aim of encouraging innovation-led economic growth. The establishment of a national scientometric system is central to this, as efforts are made to improve legal regulation in the field of science.
• Changing approaches to scientometrics, including statistics relating to numbers of publications, digitalizing the big data system, and recording scientific results which will be used to support innovation-led socioeconomic development.
• Developing assessment criteria for scientific work, with the aim of coming up with rapid responses and supporting long-term development, including with regard to legal support for grants and other forms of competitive support.
• Development prospects for areas related to outcomes of scientific work, including number of publications, improving academic citation databases, and developing a federal programme to support leading Russian scientific journals.
• Changing approaches to scientometrics, including statistics relating to numbers of publications, digitalizing the big data system, and recording scientific results which will be used to support innovation-led socioeconomic development.
• Developing assessment criteria for scientific work, with the aim of coming up with rapid responses and supporting long-term development, including with regard to legal support for grants and other forms of competitive support.
• Development prospects for areas related to outcomes of scientific work, including number of publications, improving academic citation databases, and developing a federal programme to support leading Russian scientific journals.
Moderator
Oleg Belyavsky
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast A Life without Bankruptcy: Saving and Revitalizing Businesses Here and Now
Congress Centre, conference hall D1
• Restructuring debt: can approval be gained out of court?
• Who are debt restructuring clients? What can be done to encourage an agreement?
• Trust and transparency with regard transactions and financial standing as the key to rehabilitation.
• Identifying locations and ways of holding a dialogue: procedural and legal options.
• Who are debt restructuring clients? What can be done to encourage an agreement?
• Trust and transparency with regard transactions and financial standing as the key to rehabilitation.
• Identifying locations and ways of holding a dialogue: procedural and legal options.
Moderator
Vadim Soldatenkov
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Digitalization of Law: Challenges, Goals, Prospects
Congress Centre, conference hall D2
During the roundtable the experts will discuss various aspects related to the digitalization of law in general and the rule-making process in particular. The session will touch upon issues related to the evolution of law digitalization, its transition to machine-readable format, as well as the digitalization of the rule-making process in the Russian Federation and abroad. It is also planned to discuss the implementation of the machine-readable law concept adopted in 2021, and the possibility and necessity of updating it. Additionally, the session will cover the transfer of normative acts in machine-readable format, the pros and cons of such transfer, the existing experience in the digitization of normative acts, including administrative regulations, and further plans for the transition to a machine-readable format. It is also planned to discuss the priorities in the digitalization of rulemaking and known best practices. The panellists will also examine if the participants of the rulemaking process are ready to switch to digital rulemaking, plus the current status of regulatory policy in the field of rulemaking digitalization, as well as potential solutions to existing problems in this area. The session is also expected to include dialogue with government representatives and leading professionals, as well as members of scientific, legal, and business communities.
Moderator
Dmitry Ter-Stepanov
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Cancel Culture: The Right to Cancel, or a Cancellation of Rights?
Congress Centre, conference hall D3
A number of societies which have proclaimed the loftiest democratic ideals have seen the rise of a new way of regulating social interactions over the past decade. During this time, cancel culture has been consistently cultivated in the West, leading to societies placing less emphasis on legal assessments of individual behaviour, and more on collective hate and obstruction campaigns against people. Indeed, the principles employed appear to more resemble those of a primitive society. In just a few years, cancel culture has gained so much momentum that it can be employed not just to individual people, but entire nationalities, cultures, and even countries. What is the legal take on cancel culture? What was it that caused this shift away from societal responsibility for current events and towards collective irresponsibility? Will the law endure in the fight against cancel culture?
Moderator
Alexander Tsypkin
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Besogon and Law
Congress Centre, conference hall D4
Moderator
Aleksey Pushkov
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Psychological Help: Perfecting the Legal Framework
Congress Centre, conference hall E12
Right here and right now Russian Federation urgently needs an improvement of legal regulation in the area of psychological help. The problem has several roots. First, there is no holistic, systemic law regulating psychological help on the federal level. Legal regulation of these services is performed in the sectoral federal laws and is of fragmentary nature. Moreover, the definitions used in the legislation are ambiguous, there are no unified approaches to the content of the conceptual meaning of the term. Second, there is an imbalance between the number of actual and/or potential recipients of psychological help on the one hand, and the state and society's abilities to render such help on the other hand. Both issues are caused by the absence of a unified system of psychological help in the Russian Federation, by the lack of qualified professionals in this sphere, and by missing requirements for professional standards.
Moderator
Irina Kirkora
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast Improving Legislation and State Regulation of Legally Mandatory Bidding Processes: Russian and Global Experience
Pavilion F, conference hall F1
At the present stage, the institute of bidding has become very important for the economy overall. Bidding has become a standard form of state and municipal participation in economic affairs, ensuring equal access of all potential participants to public property and public finances. However, even the fields where the transactions parties are exclusively private entities, tenders are also becoming increasingly popular, being a tool to improve the efficiency of transactions. In this regard, Russia sees a rapid development of legal tender regulation in sectoral legislation: land, forest and water legislation, legislation on subsoil resources, and so on. One of the main tasks for ensuring equal access to state (municipal) property and other associated rights is the introduction of a single procedure for conducting tenders and the participation of entrepreneurs in such tenders in a single digital environment. During the session, the panellists will consider key issues related to the development of state regulation of bidding, which is mandatory by law in the current economic environment.
Moderator
Gennady Magazinov
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00
14:30–16:00
Broadcast The Right to Self-Defence and Protection of the Home: Theory and Law Enforcement
Congress Centre, conference hall E11
Questions of the permissible limits to self-defence are raised periodically and are becoming quite acute and high-profile. The principle ‘My home is my castle’ is, in many countries, associated with constitutional guarantees giving the right to sanctity of the home. “To protect people who protect themselves and protect the life and health of others,” said President Putin on 9 December 2021 at a meeting of the Human Rights Council. The right to sanctity of the home is a crucial constitutional human right. On 31 May 2022, a Plenum of Russia’s Supreme Court amended its 2012 Resolution No. 19 ‘On application by courts of the legislation on reasonable defence and infliction of harm when restraining a crime perpetrator’. Today, when protecting themselves, Russian citizens must assess the nature of the danger of violence or threat, are restricted by the limits of reasonable force in self-defence, while the criminal is not restricted in any way. As practice has shown, there are cases when people who were protecting their own lives and those of their children find themselves in court as accused and receive actual custodial sentences. If, as a result of self-defence, the attacker dies, this almost always means a custodial sentence. Without the law being amended, will the latest clarification issued by the Supreme Court have any material effect on judicial practice in cases of exceeding reasonable force in self-defence? How should law enforcement practice be shaped to protect people’s own lives and health, and those of people close to them, as well as when they fulfil their civic duty to protect people under attack?
Moderator
Aleksandr Kozlov
16:00
30.06.2022
16:30–18:00
16:30–18:00
Broadcast How to Lower Regulation Burden: Calculate the Execution Costs or Structure Them?
Congress Centre, conference hall B1
Almost one and a half years have passed since the completion of the ‘regulatory guillotine’. Such a comprehensive legislative reform took place for the first time in Russian history and was completed on a rather tight deadline. As part of this work, it was possible to revise mandatory requirements, systematize them, and get rid of the redundant ones. Now comes the time to revise the requirements based on an assessment of the compliance costs. The Moscow government assessed a number of mass mandatory requirements and prepared proposals for their abolition or mitigation in order to create a favourable business environment. The issue of assessing the costs of compliance with mandatory requirements becomes particularly relevant in the context of providing businesses with maximum freedom in order to overcome economic instability and solve import substitution problems. Reducing the regulatory burden can provide entrepreneurs with savings that can be used for investment purposes. Another way to reduce costs is to systematize mandatory requirements, creating registers and catalogues of requirements. On the one hand this will allow to create information systems based on those registers; on the other hand, it would allow in-depth analytics on the frequency of checking requirements and on their actual implementation. This task is complicated by the fact that mandatory requirements are enshrined in legislation in a hierarchical manner, i.e. each subsequent normative act specifies, discloses and describes this or that requirement in greater detail. To what extent are requirements and permitting regimes are a barrier to business creation/scaling? Which mandatory requirements remain the most problematic from the perspective of entrepreneurs? At what level should mandatory requirements be fixed? And what should the regulatory structure look like? What can or should be contained in departmental acts of regulatory bodies?
Moderator
Alexey Bobrovsky
30.06.2022
16:30–18:00
16:30–18:00
Broadcast Community Service: Points of View from Society, Business, and Government
Congress Centre, conference hall B2
On 29 April 2021 the Russian government issued order 1138-r, which gave official approval to a concept outlining the development of the penal system to the year 2030. One area of focus is the development of a network of correctional centres for those serving sentences which do not involve isolation from society. This will be done by using the property of the penal system, regional governments, and organizations. There are a number of reasons why taking such a step is necessary. When convicts suffer from a rupture in social ties, the lack of proper employment opportunities, and the influence of criminal subcultures at prisons, the recidivism rate increases. Currently it is at 44%. In addition, imprisoning convicts is more expensive to the state than keeping them at correctional centres. These centres need to have a total capacity of up to 100,000. While 182,000 convicts currently have the option of applying for imprisonment to be replaced with community service, this will only be granted to those who have shown improvement and are on the path to rehabilitation. This target is expected to be met in 2024. Convicts at correctional centres will benefit from full employment and the chance to rebuild social ties. This initiative, together with social adaptation, rehabilitation and resocialization efforts after release, will lead to a reduction in recidivism.
Moderator
Eduard Petrov
30.06.2022
16:30–18:00
16:30–18:00
Broadcast The Professionalization of Judicial Proceedings
Congress Centre, conference hall D1
Article 48 of the Russian constitution enshrines the right to receive professional legal aid, including free legal aid in cases provided for by law. However, due to a number of reasons, it has become difficult to ensure this right. This is primarily reflected in the low quality of legal services, particularly when it comes to representing the client’s interests in court. As a result, requirements for judicial representatives have recently been raised. Now, representatives at civil, arbitration and administrative cases must have a higher legal education or a degree in law. However, practice has shown that having a higher legal education alone is not a sufficient guarantee that a judicial representative is properly qualified. Most lawyers are unregulated – they are not bound by rules of professional ethics, and cannot be struck off due to providing poor-quality legal services. The lack of clear criteria for assessing lawyers enables them – in the case of providing poor legal assistance – to avoid liability and continue their bad practice. This also applies to lawyers who have lost their status by disciplinary procedure. The current procedure for representation does not encourage public confidence in the Russian state and its guarantees as set out in the constitution. What requirements should be applied to court representatives? Who should assess whether they meet the requirements? How should the mechanism allowing lawyers to act as judicial representatives be designed?
Moderator
Mikhail Barshchevsky
30.06.2022
16:30–18:00
16:30–18:00
Broadcast Re-Domiciliation: Window of Opportunity
Congress Centre, conference hall D2
The legal mechanism of re-domiciliation has existed in Russian law for almost 4 years. It was introduced in August 2018, when a series of laws was adopted to create special administrative regions (SAR) on Oktyabrsky and Russky islands in order to bring back Russian business there and to attract international companies to migrate from foreign jurisdictions. At that time, the main features for SAR residents included the possibility to apply foreign law to regulate internal corporate relations, as well as tax conditions comparable to popular international jurisdictions. Given that large Russian businesses have traditionally been arranged using foreign holding structures, the introduction of significant sanctions against Russian beneficiaries and their assets in 2022 led to a situation where many companies encountered serious difficulties in carrying out various operations in foreign jurisdictions. Under the new conditions, the logical choice for many was to relocate controlled foreign companies to the SARs. As a consequence, the number of SAR residents has increased significantly since the end of February. This was facilitated by significant changes in the SAR legal regime:
Thus, the order of relocation was updated to reflect the current conditions, as well as liberalization of some mandatory requirements for SAR residents;
In addition, SAR residents were given a new legal mechanism of asset protection: the possibility of registration of international personal funds (lifetime and posthumous) in the territory of SAR;
Next on the agenda is amending the Russian legislation with a famous foreign legal tool: issuance of shares with a different volume of rights. The corresponding bill has been submitted to the State Duma.
Thus, the order of relocation was updated to reflect the current conditions, as well as liberalization of some mandatory requirements for SAR residents;
In addition, SAR residents were given a new legal mechanism of asset protection: the possibility of registration of international personal funds (lifetime and posthumous) in the territory of SAR;
Next on the agenda is amending the Russian legislation with a famous foreign legal tool: issuance of shares with a different volume of rights. The corresponding bill has been submitted to the State Duma.
Moderator
Galina Naumenko
30.06.2022
16:30–18:00
16:30–18:00
Broadcast Judicial Mechanisms: Dialogue between the EAEU Court and National Courts
Congress Centre, conference hall D3
• Requests for prejudicial rulings as a form of dialogue between the EAEU Court and the courts of member states. Which judicial bodies should be given the right to seek recourse from the EAEU Court? Should a request for a prejudicial ruling come at the initiative of the parties to the dispute? Should there be the option to question the validity of decisions made by the Eurasian Economic Commission under requests for prejudicial rulings? What should be the nature of documents issued following consideration of a prejudicial ruling request? What legal force should they carry?
• What is the correlation between EAEU law and legislation of member states when it comes to the practice of the EAEU Court and national courts? Mechanisms for resolving conflicts: making appropriate interpretations and not applying regulations that are contrary to EAEU law. The role of the EAEU Court and the courts of member states in upholding the supremacy of constitutional human rights and freedoms. Issues concerning the inadmissibility of retroactively applying decisions by the Eurasian Economic Commission and the protection of the economic rights of individuals and business entities.
• Reconciling judicial proceedings in the EAEU Court and national courts. Should the legislation of member states allow for the suspension of proceedings due to the plaintiff's application to the EAEU Court, or for reviewing the case in light of new circumstances?
• Key issues related to the digitalization of legal proceedings in Eurasia. Issues surrounding the recognition of e-signatures; the possibility of participating in judicial proceedings remotely; the use of digital databases.
• What is the correlation between EAEU law and legislation of member states when it comes to the practice of the EAEU Court and national courts? Mechanisms for resolving conflicts: making appropriate interpretations and not applying regulations that are contrary to EAEU law. The role of the EAEU Court and the courts of member states in upholding the supremacy of constitutional human rights and freedoms. Issues concerning the inadmissibility of retroactively applying decisions by the Eurasian Economic Commission and the protection of the economic rights of individuals and business entities.
• Reconciling judicial proceedings in the EAEU Court and national courts. Should the legislation of member states allow for the suspension of proceedings due to the plaintiff's application to the EAEU Court, or for reviewing the case in light of new circumstances?
• Key issues related to the digitalization of legal proceedings in Eurasia. Issues surrounding the recognition of e-signatures; the possibility of participating in judicial proceedings remotely; the use of digital databases.
Moderator
Mark Entin
30.06.2022
16:30–18:00
16:30–18:00
Broadcast The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation
Congress Centre, conference hall D4
Legal education is key to the government’s objective of improving legal awareness among the public. The country’s legal education system plays a crucial role. It has a direct bearing on legal evolution, on public perception, and on the efficiency of all public bodies. The legal system requires a constant influx of qualified, knowledgeable, and professional personnel. It is therefore important to focus on the development of legal education in Russia with the goal of training specialists for work at public bodies. Other aims include developing criteria and approaches to training legal specialists for work at government and municipal bodies across all levels. What global trends in legal education are in evidence today? In today’s world, how relevant is it to have specializations devoted to different areas, such as state law, civil law, or criminal law? Would it be prudent to move towards narrower specializations, such as public body lawyers, corporate lawyers, criminal lawyers, civil institution lawyers, procedural lawyers, and law-enforcement lawyers? If law-enforcement is excluded as a key part of a lawyer’s professional activities from the federal education standard covering jurisprudence, might there be any negative consequences?
Moderator
Nikolay Kropachev
30.06.2022
16:30–18:00
16:30–18:00
Broadcast Legal Regulation of Carbon Pricing: The Domestic and International Market
Congress Centre, conference hall E11
The launch of Russia’s cap-and-trade programme is steadily approaching. The Sakhalin pilot scheme – marking a transitionary step in the programme – will begin to operate this year. There is little doubt that the new foreign policy environment will affect Russian carbon regulation, so we must again ask ourselves what the Russian ETS will look like. What business prospects exist in the new carbon credit market? What experience should Russia draw upon? Can Russia’s programme be integrated with other countries’ emissions trading systems?
Moderator
Elena Kuritsyna
Alexander Tsypkin
Writer, Scriptwriter
Alexander Tsypkin is the literary discovery of 2015. From Facebook to the bestsellers.
When you see in Alexander Tsypkin’s book the subtitle ‘A sex situational comedy’ you should take it with a grain of salt. For there are indeed sex situations (rather entertaining and diverse, one should add) in the book. One-night stands and brothels, misalliances and domestic violence, sexting went wrong and almost tragical denouements. But if you leave aside the backdrop and circumstances (which is not a simple task - Tsypkin has a true journo’s grasp of detail, great sense of humour and ear for words), it turns out that all these stories are about eternal issues: devotion and honour, strong women and magnanimous men, and even, literally, about undying love.’
Natalia Kochetkova, Lenta.ru
Born in 1975 to a family of several generations of doctors, he graduated from the School of International Relations of the St.Petersburg State University. An expert in strategic PR, he has worked with major Russian companies. A frequent speaker at major professional fora and conferences, for several years he worked as the PR director of North-Western Megafon. In 2014 he moved to Moscow to get engaged in projects in the field of information politics in corporate conflicts. He has won many professional awards including the Proba-IPRA Golden World Awards.
An opinion journalist, he has also interviewed more than a hundred politicians, cultural, scientific and sport’s figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lev Dodin, Alexander Ovechkin, Ornella Mutti, Diana Vishneva, Konstantin Khabensky et al. He has authored and anchored several TV programmes as well as lectured at the St.Petersburg State University. He is actively involved in the workings of the Children of BELA charity foundation and the Foundation for prevention of cancer.
In July 2015 the AST publishing house brings out the first book of Alexander Tsypkin’s - a collection of satirical stories ‘Long live die-hard women’ that in the span of a month becomes a bestseller, climbing to the first position in the Russian prose list in the ‘Moscow’ book retailer chain. According to the AST publishing house survey, it was the best sold comic book in Russia in 2015. Actually, the book is just a collection of the author’s posts from social networks where breaking all media rules, he posted long-reads, but surprisingly they became a hit.
In October 2015 the author presented his book in Waterstones, a major London bookshop, and gave a lecture in a students’ club in Oxford.
In December 2017 AST published Tsypkin's new book 'The House of Goodbyes' which momentarily became number 1 on the 'Top 10 Best-selling books' list of the 'Moscow' book retailer chain.
Alexander's stories have been read by some of Russia's leading actors, including Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Konstantin Khabenskiy, and Anna Mikhalkova. His project 'UnprincYpled Readings', which he launched in 2015, has quickly gained popularity and sold-out shows took place in top Moscow theaters. Alexander and Konstantin Khabenskiy have traveled to over 10 countries with their programme named after Tsypkin's first book ‘Long live die-hard women’.
Many times have Alexander Tsypkin’s stories being read on stage, including such occasions as the ‘Night of the Arts 2015’and a book festival in the Red Square.
‘Radio Russia’ featured an audio version of a number of his stories performed by the leading St.Petersburg thespians - a ‘Nika’, ‘Golden Mask’ and ‘Golden Sofit’ laureate Sergei Dreiden and an Honoured Artist of Russia, a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and the State Prize of Russia Pavel Semak.
January 2016 saw a literature reading of Tsypkin’s stories for the Russian community in Singapore, put together with informational support from the Russian Embassy in Singapore.
That very January Alexander took part in a ‘Russian literature’ festival in Paris that brought together a number of prominent Russian writers including Andrei Bitov, Victor Yerofeev, Alexander Snegirev, Vladimir Fedorovsky et al. It was in the framework of the festival that stories of the author from St.Petesrburg were first heard in a foreign language.
In February 2016 came out the video-version of a semi-staged reading of the ‘Tomato juice’ story performed by Danila Kozlovsky, a leading Russian stage and screen actor familiar to an international audience for the blockbuster ‘Twilight’. During one week the video garnered 1 million hits on Facebook and has now over 5 million views.
An audio-book released that month and voiced by Danila Kozlovsky, Pavel Derevianko and many other film actors and TV anchors as well as the author himself became a bestseller in Russia in just two weeks.
In March 2016 a French translation of ‘Long live die-hard women’ was presented in Paris.
Recently, Alexander co-wrote a short film that is part of a feature 'About Love. Adult edition' by Anna Melikyan, which premiered this fall. Tsypkin has also, along with Ksenia Rappoport, directed a short film 'Goodbye, my lover!' that sold for the record 10 million rubles at the charity auction 'Action'.
Quotes from reviews:
‘His stories are gulped in one go and just stay there. Today, when long and big-scale works have but lost all chances of being read, short-story masters who perfect the most complicated form of literature have got a unique opportunity to influence the readers and change their inner world...Brilliantly written, sad and funny, with their words these stories bring us back the meanings, and with the meanings, we regain emotions and caring about people’.
The founder and director of the Multimedia Art Museum Olga Sviblova
Alexander Tsypkin’s book presents a wonderful chance to understand today’s Russia from within. It comprises a multitude of diverse stories, amazing, juicy and always kind. One can trace this young author’s lineage to de La Fontaine’s fables, Balzac’s ‘Human comedy’ and the wit of Sacha Guitry who, too, was born in St.Petersburg. This one is a very contemporary and very Russian book that reminds us that Russians can and love laughing, first of all, at themselves.
Héléna Perroud,
Former adviser to the president of France Jacques Chirac, director of the French Institute in St.Petersburg and Cultural attache of the French Embassy in Russia
‘Alexander Tsypkin’s stories amaze with their staggering nakedness of a masterfully depicted world of a St.Petesrburg slacker. It seems that never before in the history of Russian prose has anyone spoken with such humor and freedom on major serious topics that are very exciting for us today’.
Artistic director of the ‘Stanislavsky electric theatre’ Boris Yukhananov
‘For me, Alexander Tsypkin is the Leningrad’s Isaac Babel’
Pyotr Semak, an Honoured Artist of Russia, actor of ‘MDT - Theatre of Europe
‘One thing is obvious - Tsypkin combines in his short novellas brilliant humor and deep emotions in a remarkable manner, at the same time he is delicate even when he is writing on seemingly taboo subjects. Some sentences from Tsypkin’s stories are so rich, flashy and self-sufficient that they may easily have a life of their own’.
The Russian newspaper
‘Tsypkin’s stories have that thing that I value most in literature and gastronomy - the stuffing. Inside laughter, there’s always sadness, in every drama, there is a smile.
Alexander Malenkov, Editor-in-Chief of Maxim Russian Edition.
‘Life writes bang-up plots. The author outstripped me and millions of other people by turning these plots into short stories’.
Polina Sokhranova, Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan Russia
‘Life in Alexander Tsypkin’s stories is light and nonchalant. Sometimes its lightness is unbearable. Still, in every short story, there is lust for the harmony lost, for the quiet caressing of humanity. And we understand that, no matter how comic they look, people in his texts are not just pictures, not mere pawns. They must be cared for and loved.’
When you see in Alexander Tsypkin’s book the subtitle ‘A sex situational comedy’ you should take it with a grain of salt. For there are indeed sex situations (rather entertaining and diverse, one should add) in the book. One-night stands and brothels, misalliances and domestic violence, sexting went wrong and almost tragical denouements. But if you leave aside the backdrop and circumstances (which is not a simple task - Tsypkin has a true journo’s grasp of detail, great sense of humour and ear for words), it turns out that all these stories are about eternal issues: devotion and honour, strong women and magnanimous men, and even, literally, about undying love.’
Natalia Kochetkova, Lenta.ru
Born in 1975 to a family of several generations of doctors, he graduated from the School of International Relations of the St.Petersburg State University. An expert in strategic PR, he has worked with major Russian companies. A frequent speaker at major professional fora and conferences, for several years he worked as the PR director of North-Western Megafon. In 2014 he moved to Moscow to get engaged in projects in the field of information politics in corporate conflicts. He has won many professional awards including the Proba-IPRA Golden World Awards.
An opinion journalist, he has also interviewed more than a hundred politicians, cultural, scientific and sport’s figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lev Dodin, Alexander Ovechkin, Ornella Mutti, Diana Vishneva, Konstantin Khabensky et al. He has authored and anchored several TV programmes as well as lectured at the St.Petersburg State University. He is actively involved in the workings of the Children of BELA charity foundation and the Foundation for prevention of cancer.
In July 2015 the AST publishing house brings out the first book of Alexander Tsypkin’s - a collection of satirical stories ‘Long live die-hard women’ that in the span of a month becomes a bestseller, climbing to the first position in the Russian prose list in the ‘Moscow’ book retailer chain. According to the AST publishing house survey, it was the best sold comic book in Russia in 2015. Actually, the book is just a collection of the author’s posts from social networks where breaking all media rules, he posted long-reads, but surprisingly they became a hit.
In October 2015 the author presented his book in Waterstones, a major London bookshop, and gave a lecture in a students’ club in Oxford.
In December 2017 AST published Tsypkin's new book 'The House of Goodbyes' which momentarily became number 1 on the 'Top 10 Best-selling books' list of the 'Moscow' book retailer chain.
Alexander's stories have been read by some of Russia's leading actors, including Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Konstantin Khabenskiy, and Anna Mikhalkova. His project 'UnprincYpled Readings', which he launched in 2015, has quickly gained popularity and sold-out shows took place in top Moscow theaters. Alexander and Konstantin Khabenskiy have traveled to over 10 countries with their programme named after Tsypkin's first book ‘Long live die-hard women’.
Many times have Alexander Tsypkin’s stories being read on stage, including such occasions as the ‘Night of the Arts 2015’and a book festival in the Red Square.
‘Radio Russia’ featured an audio version of a number of his stories performed by the leading St.Petersburg thespians - a ‘Nika’, ‘Golden Mask’ and ‘Golden Sofit’ laureate Sergei Dreiden and an Honoured Artist of Russia, a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and the State Prize of Russia Pavel Semak.
January 2016 saw a literature reading of Tsypkin’s stories for the Russian community in Singapore, put together with informational support from the Russian Embassy in Singapore.
That very January Alexander took part in a ‘Russian literature’ festival in Paris that brought together a number of prominent Russian writers including Andrei Bitov, Victor Yerofeev, Alexander Snegirev, Vladimir Fedorovsky et al. It was in the framework of the festival that stories of the author from St.Petesrburg were first heard in a foreign language.
In February 2016 came out the video-version of a semi-staged reading of the ‘Tomato juice’ story performed by Danila Kozlovsky, a leading Russian stage and screen actor familiar to an international audience for the blockbuster ‘Twilight’. During one week the video garnered 1 million hits on Facebook and has now over 5 million views.
An audio-book released that month and voiced by Danila Kozlovsky, Pavel Derevianko and many other film actors and TV anchors as well as the author himself became a bestseller in Russia in just two weeks.
In March 2016 a French translation of ‘Long live die-hard women’ was presented in Paris.
Recently, Alexander co-wrote a short film that is part of a feature 'About Love. Adult edition' by Anna Melikyan, which premiered this fall. Tsypkin has also, along with Ksenia Rappoport, directed a short film 'Goodbye, my lover!' that sold for the record 10 million rubles at the charity auction 'Action'.
Quotes from reviews:
‘His stories are gulped in one go and just stay there. Today, when long and big-scale works have but lost all chances of being read, short-story masters who perfect the most complicated form of literature have got a unique opportunity to influence the readers and change their inner world...Brilliantly written, sad and funny, with their words these stories bring us back the meanings, and with the meanings, we regain emotions and caring about people’.
The founder and director of the Multimedia Art Museum Olga Sviblova
Alexander Tsypkin’s book presents a wonderful chance to understand today’s Russia from within. It comprises a multitude of diverse stories, amazing, juicy and always kind. One can trace this young author’s lineage to de La Fontaine’s fables, Balzac’s ‘Human comedy’ and the wit of Sacha Guitry who, too, was born in St.Petersburg. This one is a very contemporary and very Russian book that reminds us that Russians can and love laughing, first of all, at themselves.
Héléna Perroud,
Former adviser to the president of France Jacques Chirac, director of the French Institute in St.Petersburg and Cultural attache of the French Embassy in Russia
‘Alexander Tsypkin’s stories amaze with their staggering nakedness of a masterfully depicted world of a St.Petesrburg slacker. It seems that never before in the history of Russian prose has anyone spoken with such humor and freedom on major serious topics that are very exciting for us today’.
Artistic director of the ‘Stanislavsky electric theatre’ Boris Yukhananov
‘For me, Alexander Tsypkin is the Leningrad’s Isaac Babel’
Pyotr Semak, an Honoured Artist of Russia, actor of ‘MDT - Theatre of Europe
‘One thing is obvious - Tsypkin combines in his short novellas brilliant humor and deep emotions in a remarkable manner, at the same time he is delicate even when he is writing on seemingly taboo subjects. Some sentences from Tsypkin’s stories are so rich, flashy and self-sufficient that they may easily have a life of their own’.
The Russian newspaper
‘Tsypkin’s stories have that thing that I value most in literature and gastronomy - the stuffing. Inside laughter, there’s always sadness, in every drama, there is a smile.
Alexander Malenkov, Editor-in-Chief of Maxim Russian Edition.
‘Life writes bang-up plots. The author outstripped me and millions of other people by turning these plots into short stories’.
Polina Sokhranova, Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan Russia
‘Life in Alexander Tsypkin’s stories is light and nonchalant. Sometimes its lightness is unbearable. Still, in every short story, there is lust for the harmony lost, for the quiet caressing of humanity. And we understand that, no matter how comic they look, people in his texts are not just pictures, not mere pawns. They must be cared for and loved.’
Vladimir Gureev
Vice-Rector for Science, Head of the Department, Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure and Organization of the Bailiff Service, All-Russian State University of Justice (RPA of the Ministry of Justice of Russia)
Vitaly Belinsky
Adviser of Office on Combating Corruption, Presidential Executive Office of Russian Federation
Pavel Krasheninnikov
Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on State Building and Legislation
Ilya Bolotnov
Partner, Head of Corporate Practice, Pepeliaev Group
Evgenia Zusman
Partner, You & Partners; Deputy Director of the Investment Analysis Center, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Alexey Guznov
Secretary of State – Deputy Chairman, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Born on 18 June 1967 in Gorky.
Education
1990: graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Candidate of Juridical Sciences (1994); Doctor of Juridical Sciences (2016).
Author of over 80 publications on the theory of law and financial regulation, including tutorials and monographs.
Career
1984–1985: Assembly Mechanic at the Gorky Institute Salyut, Gorky.
1985–1990: student at the the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow.
1990–1991: Legal Advisor (contractor) at the Leisure Centre of the Oktyabrsky District, Moscow.
1991: Legal Team Leader at the International Association of Parliamentarians, Moscow.
1991–1992: Assistant to the Chairman of the Council of the Union of the USSR Supreme Council, Moscow.
1992–1994: Planning Team Leader, Deputy Chief of the Parliamentarianism Section at the Parliamentary Centre of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
1995–1997: Deputy Head of Section, Head of Section in the Banking Legislation Division of the Legal Department at the Bank of Russia, Moscow.
1997–1998: Deputy Head of the Division for Legal Support of Banking Operations of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.
1998–2002: Deputy Director — Head of the Division for Legal Support of Banking Operations of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.
2002–2014: Deputy Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.
2014–2022: Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.
Since 2022: State Secretary — Deputy Governor of Bank of Russia.
Member of the Bank of Russia Board of Directors (since 10 October 2018).
He holds the title of Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation; the medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ 2nd class; awards of the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; and awards of Russian ministries. Themis Award winner.
Education
1990: graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Candidate of Juridical Sciences (1994); Doctor of Juridical Sciences (2016).
Author of over 80 publications on the theory of law and financial regulation, including tutorials and monographs.
Career
1984–1985: Assembly Mechanic at the Gorky Institute Salyut, Gorky.
1985–1990: student at the the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow.
1990–1991: Legal Advisor (contractor) at the Leisure Centre of the Oktyabrsky District, Moscow.
1991: Legal Team Leader at the International Association of Parliamentarians, Moscow.
1991–1992: Assistant to the Chairman of the Council of the Union of the USSR Supreme Council, Moscow.
1992–1994: Planning Team Leader, Deputy Chief of the Parliamentarianism Section at the Parliamentary Centre of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
1995–1997: Deputy Head of Section, Head of Section in the Banking Legislation Division of the Legal Department at the Bank of Russia, Moscow.
1997–1998: Deputy Head of the Division for Legal Support of Banking Operations of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.
1998–2002: Deputy Director — Head of the Division for Legal Support of Banking Operations of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.
2002–2014: Deputy Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.
2014–2022: Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.
Since 2022: State Secretary — Deputy Governor of Bank of Russia.
Member of the Bank of Russia Board of Directors (since 10 October 2018).
He holds the title of Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation; the medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ 2nd class; awards of the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; and awards of Russian ministries. Themis Award winner.
Sergey Stepashin
Chairman, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Territorial Development Fund
Rustem Akhmetshin
Senior Partner, Head of Tax Practice, Pepeliaev Group
Vitaliy Omelyanovskiy
General Director, Center for Healthcare Quality Assessment and Control of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Born July 27, 1964 in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast.
In 1987, he graduated from the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University with a degree in General Medicine. After graduation he stayed in the university, where he rose from postgraduate to professor of the department of clinical pharmacology.
In 1998 he graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration of the Russian Federation with a degree in state and municipal management, with the qualification of economist-financier.
In 2002, he defended the first doctoral dissertation in the Russian Federation on clinical and economic analysis and pharmacoeconomics.
From 2009 to 2012 he was. - Vladimir Potanin was Director of the Research Institute for Clinical and Economic Expertise and Pharmacoeconomics at the N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education, Ministry of Health Care of the Russian Federation.
From 2012 to 2020, she was Head of the Research Laboratory of the N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. - Head of the Research Laboratory for Technology Assessment in Healthcare at the Institute of Applied Economic Research of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, a federal state budget-funded educational institution of higher education.
Since 2014. - Head of the Healthcare Finance Center of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Research Financial Institute" of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
Since 2015. - General Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Center for Expertise and Quality Control of Medical Care" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Since 2020. - Head of the Department of Economics, Management and Assessment of Healthcare Technologies of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Additional Professional Education "Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education" of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation.
Member of the Dissertation Council D 208.088.01.
Head of the Expert Council on Health Care of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy, Expert of the Analytical Centre for the Government of the Russian Federation.
Chief Clinical Pharmacologist, Ministry of Health, Moscow Region.
Chief editor of scientific journals, Pharmacoeconomics. Modern Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacoepidemiology" and "Medical Technology. Evaluation and Choice".
She is an author of three patents of the Russian Federation, two monographs, educational and methodical manuals for physicians, and more than 140 scientific papers published in Russian and foreign medical journals.
Doctor of Medicine (2002), Professor (2007). Under his supervision V.V. Omelyanovsky defended one doctoral thesis and seven Ph. Currently supervises the theses of two doctoral students and two doctoral candidates.
He is the President of the Russian branch of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomic Research and Outcome Evaluation (ISPOR).
He is a laureate of the Russian Federation Government Award in Science and Technology, has certificates of merit from the President of the Russian Federation and the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and has received commendations from the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Analytical Center of the Russian Federation Government, the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, and the Sverdlovsk Oblast Government.
In 1987, he graduated from the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University with a degree in General Medicine. After graduation he stayed in the university, where he rose from postgraduate to professor of the department of clinical pharmacology.
In 1998 he graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration of the Russian Federation with a degree in state and municipal management, with the qualification of economist-financier.
In 2002, he defended the first doctoral dissertation in the Russian Federation on clinical and economic analysis and pharmacoeconomics.
From 2009 to 2012 he was. - Vladimir Potanin was Director of the Research Institute for Clinical and Economic Expertise and Pharmacoeconomics at the N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education, Ministry of Health Care of the Russian Federation.
From 2012 to 2020, she was Head of the Research Laboratory of the N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. - Head of the Research Laboratory for Technology Assessment in Healthcare at the Institute of Applied Economic Research of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, a federal state budget-funded educational institution of higher education.
Since 2014. - Head of the Healthcare Finance Center of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Research Financial Institute" of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
Since 2015. - General Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Center for Expertise and Quality Control of Medical Care" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Since 2020. - Head of the Department of Economics, Management and Assessment of Healthcare Technologies of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Additional Professional Education "Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education" of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation.
Member of the Dissertation Council D 208.088.01.
Head of the Expert Council on Health Care of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy, Expert of the Analytical Centre for the Government of the Russian Federation.
Chief Clinical Pharmacologist, Ministry of Health, Moscow Region.
Chief editor of scientific journals, Pharmacoeconomics. Modern Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacoepidemiology" and "Medical Technology. Evaluation and Choice".
She is an author of three patents of the Russian Federation, two monographs, educational and methodical manuals for physicians, and more than 140 scientific papers published in Russian and foreign medical journals.
Doctor of Medicine (2002), Professor (2007). Under his supervision V.V. Omelyanovsky defended one doctoral thesis and seven Ph. Currently supervises the theses of two doctoral students and two doctoral candidates.
He is the President of the Russian branch of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomic Research and Outcome Evaluation (ISPOR).
He is a laureate of the Russian Federation Government Award in Science and Technology, has certificates of merit from the President of the Russian Federation and the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and has received commendations from the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Analytical Center of the Russian Federation Government, the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, and the Sverdlovsk Oblast Government.
Tatiana Medvedeva
Head of the Center for Legislative Initiatives, VEB.RF
Aleksandr Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
Director of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences; Fellow Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Russian statesman, and legal scholar.
Professional background:
Since 1985, served in a Military Prosecutor’s Office, since 1994 in the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office. He headed Military Prosecutor’s offices of the Siberian and Moscow military command regions. In 2002 he was appointed First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor.
On 10 June 2002, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation appointed Mr Savenkov Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – Chief Military Prosecutor.
2006–2008 First Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2009–2013 Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the Vladimir Region.
In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation – Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 2017, he took leadership of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Merits, awards, achievements:
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Motherland 3rd and 4th degrees, Order of Alexander Nevsky and Order of Honour. He is a recipient of more than 50 medals and departmental awards of Russia and foreign countries. He was honoured with Recognition Certificates by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Professional background:
Since 1985, served in a Military Prosecutor’s Office, since 1994 in the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office. He headed Military Prosecutor’s offices of the Siberian and Moscow military command regions. In 2002 he was appointed First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor.
On 10 June 2002, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation appointed Mr Savenkov Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – Chief Military Prosecutor.
2006–2008 First Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2009–2013 Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the Vladimir Region.
In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation – Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 2017, he took leadership of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Merits, awards, achievements:
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Motherland 3rd and 4th degrees, Order of Alexander Nevsky and Order of Honour. He is a recipient of more than 50 medals and departmental awards of Russia and foreign countries. He was honoured with Recognition Certificates by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Alexandra Suvorova
Anchor, Russia 24 TV Channel
Vladimir Pligin
Co-Chairman, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Gruzdev
Chairman of the Board, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Gruzdev Vladimir Sergeyevich – Chairman of the Executive Board of the Association of lawyers of Russia (ALRF).
Born February 6, 1967 in Bolshevo, Moscow region.
Education:
1984: graduated from the Moscow Suvorov military school.
1991: graduated from the Krasnoznamenny Military institute.
2000: graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Law Faculty).
2003: defended his PhD thesis.
Foreign languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English.
Career:
1991-1993 served in the Foreign Intelligence Service of the RF.
1993: founded the trading company “The Seventh Continent”, where he held management positions.
2001: was elected as a deputy of the Moscow city Duma.
2003: was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation.
2007: was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation.
2011-2016: governor of the Tula region.
2009-2016: member of the Presidium of the ALRF.
Since 2016: Chairman of the Executive Board of the ALRF.
Awards:
- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd Class;
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 3rd Class and 4th Class;
- Russian Federation Presidential and Governmental Certificates of Honour;
- Gratitudes of the President and the Government of the RF;
- Medal “For Battle Merit”;
- Honourary Title “Soldier-internationalist”;
- Honourary badges of the State Duma and the Federation Council.
Born February 6, 1967 in Bolshevo, Moscow region.
Education:
1984: graduated from the Moscow Suvorov military school.
1991: graduated from the Krasnoznamenny Military institute.
2000: graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Law Faculty).
2003: defended his PhD thesis.
Foreign languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English.
Career:
1991-1993 served in the Foreign Intelligence Service of the RF.
1993: founded the trading company “The Seventh Continent”, where he held management positions.
2001: was elected as a deputy of the Moscow city Duma.
2003: was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation.
2007: was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation.
2011-2016: governor of the Tula region.
2009-2016: member of the Presidium of the ALRF.
Since 2016: Chairman of the Executive Board of the ALRF.
Awards:
- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd Class;
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 3rd Class and 4th Class;
- Russian Federation Presidential and Governmental Certificates of Honour;
- Gratitudes of the President and the Government of the RF;
- Medal “For Battle Merit”;
- Honourary Title “Soldier-internationalist”;
- Honourary badges of the State Duma and the Federation Council.
Grigory Ivliev
President, Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) of the Eurasian Patent Organization
Mr. Ivliev was born in Paniki, Ryazan Region on 27 September 1957
1981 – Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University
1984 – PhD in Law
1985-1994 – served in different capacities in Moscow State Law Academy
1994-1997 – Committee of the State Duma on Legislation and Judicial and Legal Reform, Legal Department of the State Duma
1998-2002 - Central Office of the Government of the Russian Federation, Deputy Head of the Department for Relations with the Federal Assembly, NGOs and Religious Organizations
2002-2007 - State Duma, Head of the Legal Department
2007- 2011 - State Duma Deputy of 5th convocation
2011-2015 - State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.
2015-2022 - Head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent).
Since February 18, 2022 - President of the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) of the Eurasian Patent Organization.
Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Secretary of the Union of Writers of Russia.
1981 – Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University
1984 – PhD in Law
1985-1994 – served in different capacities in Moscow State Law Academy
1994-1997 – Committee of the State Duma on Legislation and Judicial and Legal Reform, Legal Department of the State Duma
1998-2002 - Central Office of the Government of the Russian Federation, Deputy Head of the Department for Relations with the Federal Assembly, NGOs and Religious Organizations
2002-2007 - State Duma, Head of the Legal Department
2007- 2011 - State Duma Deputy of 5th convocation
2011-2015 - State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.
2015-2022 - Head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent).
Since February 18, 2022 - President of the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) of the Eurasian Patent Organization.
Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Secretary of the Union of Writers of Russia.
Oleg Belyavsky
Director, Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Oleg Belyavsky was born in 1959 in a service man family. After graduating from the Law Faculty of the Military Red Banner Institute in 1980, he served for more than 14 years in the system of military prosecutor’s office and military courts, as well as in the central office of the Russian Defense Ministry. Participated in the drafting of several bills and agreements in the field of international humanitarian law. Later on he worked in senior positions in banking and industrial spheres, headed JSC «State Institute of Nitrogen Industry and Organic Synthesis Products», for more than twenty years he consulted Russian and foreign investment companies and funds. Since 2014 he is working as CEO of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. PhD in Law.
Scientific interests of O.V. Belyavsky include state, civil and financial law and in particular legal regulation of national science state support, expert activities in the scientific and technical sphere. He is currently member of the working group of developing a national system for evaluating the publication activity and effectiveness of Russian scientists and scientific organizations.
Scientific interests of O.V. Belyavsky include state, civil and financial law and in particular legal regulation of national science state support, expert activities in the scientific and technical sphere. He is currently member of the working group of developing a national system for evaluating the publication activity and effectiveness of Russian scientists and scientific organizations.
Vadim Soldatenkov
Head of the Bankruptcy Proceedings Department of the Federal Tax Service of Russia
Dmitry Ter-Stepanov
Deputy General Director – Director of Regulatory Control, Digital Economy
Chaired by Dmitry Ter-Stepanov, Deputy CEO, ANO Digital Economy, Data Policy Lead.
Dmitry has an extensive experience in data policy—leading in ANO Digital Economy since 2017 especially in the area of regulation. He previously headed payment services for FGUP Russian Post, lead in strategy and financial administrative issues in JSC Universal Electric Card and worked in the Ministry of Economic Development.
Dmitry has an extensive experience in data policy—leading in ANO Digital Economy since 2017 especially in the area of regulation. He previously headed payment services for FGUP Russian Post, lead in strategy and financial administrative issues in JSC Universal Electric Card and worked in the Ministry of Economic Development.
Aleksey Pushkov
Senator of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Commission of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy and Interaction with the Media, author and presenter of the analytical program "Postscript"
Russian Senator and Chairman of Federation Council's Commission on Information Policy and Cooperation with the Media.
Born 10 August 1954 in Moscow.
Higher Education: graduated in 1976 from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a specialization in International Relations.
Speaks two foreign languages: English, French.
Candidate of Historical Sciences.
1983–1988 – Editor-Consultant to Problems of Peace and Socialism/World Marxist Review (Prague).
1988–1991 – Consultant of the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991–1995 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti (Moscow News)
1995–1998 – Deputy General Director, Public Russian Television (ORT)
From 1998 – Head, Author, and Anchor of Postscriptum (TV Centre).
2004–2016 – Member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
2008–2011 – Director of the Institute of Current International Issues of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
2011–2016 – Member of the State Duma from Perm Territory. Chair of the Committee on International Affairs of the 6th convocation of the State Duma.
From 2004 – Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation
He holds honourary degrees from Moscow University for the Humanities (MosGU), Russian-Armenian University (Yerevan), and Azerbaijan University of Languages (Baku).
Author of seven books on Russian foreign policy and international relations. His book Globalnye shakhmaty. Russkaya partiya (Global Chess: The Russian Game; Moscow, 2018) has also been published in France.
He has been awarded the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ 3rd and 4th class, the Order of Honour, and the Order of Friendship. He has also been bestowed the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour (2020) and a Letter of Appreciation from the President of the Russian Federation. He is a laureate of the Russian Ludwig Nobel Prize and a number of other public and professional awards. He is a member of the MGIMO University Board of Trustees, St. Petersburg Dialogue Forum Coordinating Committee, Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, and the Public Council of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Married, with a daughter.
Born 10 August 1954 in Moscow.
Higher Education: graduated in 1976 from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a specialization in International Relations.
Speaks two foreign languages: English, French.
Candidate of Historical Sciences.
1983–1988 – Editor-Consultant to Problems of Peace and Socialism/World Marxist Review (Prague).
1988–1991 – Consultant of the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991–1995 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti (Moscow News)
1995–1998 – Deputy General Director, Public Russian Television (ORT)
From 1998 – Head, Author, and Anchor of Postscriptum (TV Centre).
2004–2016 – Member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
2008–2011 – Director of the Institute of Current International Issues of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
2011–2016 – Member of the State Duma from Perm Territory. Chair of the Committee on International Affairs of the 6th convocation of the State Duma.
From 2004 – Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation
He holds honourary degrees from Moscow University for the Humanities (MosGU), Russian-Armenian University (Yerevan), and Azerbaijan University of Languages (Baku).
Author of seven books on Russian foreign policy and international relations. His book Globalnye shakhmaty. Russkaya partiya (Global Chess: The Russian Game; Moscow, 2018) has also been published in France.
He has been awarded the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ 3rd and 4th class, the Order of Honour, and the Order of Friendship. He has also been bestowed the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour (2020) and a Letter of Appreciation from the President of the Russian Federation. He is a laureate of the Russian Ludwig Nobel Prize and a number of other public and professional awards. He is a member of the MGIMO University Board of Trustees, St. Petersburg Dialogue Forum Coordinating Committee, Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, and the Public Council of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Married, with a daughter.
Irina Kirkora
Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
Gennady Magazinov
Deputy Head, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS Russia)
Aleksandr Kozlov
Advisor to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation
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.
Eduard Petrov
Deputy Director, Head of Legal Programs Production Service, Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR)
Mikhail Barshchevsky
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Russian Federation at the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Galina Naumenko
Partner of the Tax Practice, Technologies of Trust
Mark Entin
Head of the European Law Department, MGIMO University
2012-2016 – Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Luxembourg
2005-2012 – Director of the European Studies Institute at the MGIMO-University
2002-2006 – Director of the Institute of European Law
1998-2002 – Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Council of Europe
1992-1998 – First deputy director of the Directorate of European Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Was involved in the activities of different main bodies of the Council of Europe. Lectured in Russian and European universities as an invited professor.
Since 2006 – Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law.
Member of the International Law Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Jean Monnet professor. Specialist in Russian foreign policy, conflict resolution, Russian and EU legal systems, law of the Council of Europe and the European System of Human Rights Protection, the EU-Russia relations. Was involved in activities of a number of international and Russian expert groups.
Author of over 400 publications.
2005-2012 – Director of the European Studies Institute at the MGIMO-University
2002-2006 – Director of the Institute of European Law
1998-2002 – Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Council of Europe
1992-1998 – First deputy director of the Directorate of European Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Was involved in the activities of different main bodies of the Council of Europe. Lectured in Russian and European universities as an invited professor.
Since 2006 – Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law.
Member of the International Law Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Jean Monnet professor. Specialist in Russian foreign policy, conflict resolution, Russian and EU legal systems, law of the Council of Europe and the European System of Human Rights Protection, the EU-Russia relations. Was involved in activities of a number of international and Russian expert groups.
Author of over 400 publications.
Nikolay Kropachev
Rector, St. Petersburg State University
Elena Kuritsyna
Director of the Corporate Affairs Department, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)