Business programme
19.05.2025
12:00–13:30

From Virtual to Real: How Emerging Technologies Are Changing Crime and Legal Responses

Justice Quarter, conference hall E10
Digitalization in Law
Broadcast
In recent years, there has been a trend in legislation of introducing new digital platforms and technologies into judicial activities and the work of law enforcement agencies. Significant results have been achieved in this area. However, the expanded use of modern information technologies, while creating convenient services for citizens, also provides hackers with a weapon and raises questions about the relevance of traditional procedural forms and mechanisms to counter them. How can the development of modern technologies be used for criminal proceedings and legislation on administrative offences?

Moderator

Eduard Petrov
Journalist, TV presenter; Deputy Director, Head of Legal Programs Production Service, Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR)

Panellists

Elena Avakyan
Head of Digital Transformation of the Bar, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Daniil Bessarabov
First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on State Building and Legislation
Elina Sidorenko
Professor, MGIMO University; Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
Alexey Tomilov
Co-founder and Technical Director (CTO), RebrandyCo; Pentester, bug hunter
Vadim Fedorov
Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Mikhail Shalumov
Deputy Head of Department - Head of Division for Systematisation of Legislation and Analysis of Judicial Practice in Criminal Matters, Department for Systematisation of Legislation and Analysis of Judicial Practice, Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

Broadcast

Eduard Petrov
Journalist, TV presenter; Deputy Director, Head of Legal Programs Production Service, Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR)
Elena Avakyan
Head of Digital Transformation of the Bar, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Elena Avakyan is the Executive Director of the Non-Profit Partnership for Advancement of Corporate Law.
Since 2019, Elena has been a member of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers Council. Since 2018, she served on the Expert Council on Legislative Support for the Development of the Securities Market and Derivative Financial Instruments under the Committee of the State Duma for Financial Markets.
From 2006 to 2014, Elena served as the head of Control and Analytic Directorate at the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. She was one of the ideologists of the e-justice project in Russia and one of its managers.
In 2004–2005, Elena was the chairwoman of the board of the National Association of Securities Market Participants. In 1999–2004, she was the head of Legal Control Service and vice president of Renaissance-Capital. Before that, she worked as a general counsel of the board of the St Petersburg Stock Exchange.
At various times, Elena served as a financial market legislation expert for the FAS of Russia and Ministry of Finance, corporate governance expert for the Ministry of Economic Development, expert for the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets and Council of the Federation Committee on Financial Markets and Money Circulation as well as an expert of the Property Committee of the RF State Duma, an assistant to the Committee chairperson and assistant to a deputy of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building. Since 2011, she is a member of the working group on multi-purpose centers. She took part in the drafting of a concept of new civil legislation.
Elena is a member of all working groups at the Skolkovo competence centres in each of the focus areas of the Digital Economy national programme; she leads a small working group on the concept of an ‘electronic document’ within the Skolkovo working groups.
From 2021 to 2025 – Vice-President of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation.
Daniil Bessarabov
First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on State Building and Legislation
Elina Sidorenko
Professor, MGIMO University; Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
Sidorenko Elina - Doctor of Law, Professor of MGIMO University (Moscow State Institute of International Relations under Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia), Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
A graduate of the Stavropol State University (now — The North-Caucasus Federal University) in 2001. In 2002 she successfully defended her thesis and in 2013 she successfully defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Law. Since 2013 she is Professor of MGIMO University, since 2017 she is the Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
Research interests: financial security, digital economy, anti-corruption policy, laundering of the proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism.
She is the author of 150 scientific works.
Sidorenko Elina is actively working as an expert. She is a member of the Expert Council of the RF President's Administration on anti-corruption, the Head of the Working Group of the State Duma of RF Federal Gathering on cryptocurrency circulation risk assessment, the Head of the new digital technologies Expert Council of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Participates in the development of legislation on cryptocurrency circulation regulation in Russia.
Alexey Tomilov
Co-founder and Technical Director (CTO), RebrandyCo; Pentester, bug hunter
Vadim Fedorov
Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Mikhail Shalumov
Deputy Head of Department - Head of Division for Systematisation of Legislation and Analysis of Judicial Practice in Criminal Matters, Department for Systematisation of Legislation and Analysis of Judicial Practice, Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
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