Business programme
19.05.2025
10:00–11:30

Regulatory Conditions for Doing Business: Do We Need a New Guillotine?

Congress Centre, conference hall B3 (2nd floor)
Effective Law for an Effective State
Broadcast
Over the past 15 years, the government has carried out significant work to reform regulatory policy. A regulatory impact assessment (RIA) procedure was introduced to identify and prevent the adoption of regulation that places an excessive burden on business. In 2020, basic laws on mandatory requirements and monitoring (supervisory) activities were adopted, and a ‘regulatory guillotine’ was carried out, radically reforming the Russian regulatory landscape. The reform is still under way, and work on the elimination of the ‘White List’ is being finalized. The RIA procedure has been improved: an updated methodology has been adopted, enabling a transition to the key role of estimating business costs, which will make it possible to determine, for each new requirement, its cost for entrepreneurs. The new standards pose new challenges for the government: how may decision-making mechanisms be structured in such a way as to ensure their efficiency and accuracy? How can modern information technologies help in this? What are the possible prospects for improving the Russian regulatory system?

Moderator

Dmitry Smolnikov
Deputy Director General, Center for Strategic Research Foundation

Panellists

Artem Belov
Director General, National Union of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloko)
Sergey Gromak
Vice President for External Affairs and Shareholder Relations, AVTOVAZ
Alexander Litvak
Chief Executive Officer, Co-regulation Platform
Svetlana Orlova
Auditor of Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation
Irina Sirenko
Vice President, Government Relations, VK
Andrey Spiridonov
Director, Regulatory Policy Support Department, Government of the Russian Federation
Alexey Khersontsev
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Broadcast

Dmitry Smolnikov
Deputy Director General, Center for Strategic Research Foundation
Artem Belov
Director General, National Union of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloko)
Sergey Gromak
Vice President for External Affairs and Shareholder Relations, AVTOVAZ
Alexander Litvak
Chief Executive Officer, Co-regulation Platform
Svetlana Orlova
Auditor of Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation
Born October 23, 1954 in the town of Obluchye, Khabarovsk Territory.
In 1977 she graduated from Ussuriysk State Teacher Training College, followed by the Khabarovsk Higher Party School and professional development courses at the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation. She now holds a PhD in Economics.
From 1971–1991, she worked as a teacher at a boarding school in Vladivostok and was involved in party activities. From 1991–1993, she was Vice President, General Director of the Maritime Territory Women’s For-Profit Charity Organization ANNA. From 1993–1999, she was a deputy in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a member of the Women of Russia faction, a member of the Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance. From 2000–2001, Orlova was Vice President of ZAO NPO Krosna.
In November 2001, she was elected to the Federation Council to represent the Council of People’s Deputies of the Kemerovo Region. From January 2004 to March 2013, she acted as Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
By presidential decree of the Russian Federation as of March 24, 2013, she was appointed Acting Governor of the Vladimir Region.
On September 8, 2013 elected Governor of the Vladimir Region.
She is a recipient of the Order For Services to Homeland of the fourth degree, Order of Honor, Order of Commonwealth, medal of the Order For Services to Homeland of second degree, a medal In Commemoration of 850 Years of Moscow, a medal In the Commemoration of 1000 Years of Kazan, the P.A. Stolypin medal of second degree, and a medal of the Federation Council, the 20 Years medal, 70 years of Vladimir Region commemorative medal, a Letter of Commendation from the President of the Russian Federation, a Letter of Commendation from the Government of the Russian Federation, awards of the Kemerovo Region, badge For Services to the Development of OAO Russian Railways of first degree, and a badge Railway Worker of Honor. She has also received commendations from the President of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
She is Deputy Chairperson of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and heads Russia’s delegation to the Congress.
Irina Sirenko
Vice President, Government Relations, VK
Ms Irina Sirenko was born in Moscow, in 2004 graduated with honors from the State University of Management in Jurisprudence. PhD in Law (2008, The Institute of State and Law AT the Russian Academy of Sciences). She was one of the authorship of the most basic laws on information technology in Russia (“On electronic signature”, “On the Organization of Provision of State and Municipal Services”, “On Personal Data”).
2004 - 2011 Lawyer Consultant, The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Project Manager, The Ministry of Mass Communications of the Russian Federation;
2011 – 2018 Deputy Director, The Moscow City Government, Information Technologies Department;
From 2019 to present – Head of GR, PAO “Rostelecom”
Andrey Spiridonov
Director, Regulatory Policy Support Department, Government of the Russian Federation
Alexey Khersontsev
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Was born on August 21, 1980 in the Lesnoy town, Sverdlovsk region, Russian Federation. He graduated in 2002 from the Ural State Law Academy, the Institute of Foreign Economic Relations and Law. In 2003 - 2008 years occupied posts: specialist, leading specialist, chief specialist, Head of research management at the Ural State Law Academy. After that, he held the positions of lecturer, senior lecturer at the Department of Business Law, Ural State Law Academy.
In 2008 - 2010 years he served successively as Head of the Legal Experts Group for Property Relations, Vice-President of ANO "Public Reforms Center".
In 2010 - 2011 years he occupied position of Director of the Department of Regulatory Impact Assessment at the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. From November 2011 to June 2016 he was Director of the Department of State regulation of the Economy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. In June 2016 he was appointed to the Head of the Federal Accreditation Service. Awards: Honorary Diploma from the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, the Letter of gratitude from the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Letter of gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation, two Honorary Diplomas from the President of the Russian Federation.
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