With the support of the Roscongress Foundation, Moscow hosted a meeting of India's leading CEOs with Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Anton Kobyakov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov, Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic Alexander Kozlov, and Minister of Moscow Government, Head of the Department of Foreign Economic and International Relations Sergey Cheremin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree transferring the functions for the formulation and implementation of the state policy and regulatory framework for the socioeconomic development of the Arctic to the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and renamed it the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic.

Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Anton Kobyakov and Ambassador of India to Russia Venkatesh Varma met in Moscow.

On 7 February in Moscow, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev chaired the first meeting of the Organizing Committee for the 5th Eastern Economic Forum, which will be held 4–6 September 2019 in Vladivostok.

Leaders from regions of the Russian Federation and top domestic technology companies were part of a business mission that visited Japan on 4–5 February 2019.

Восточный экономический форум в нынешнем году впервые представит участникам в сентябре 2019 года отдельную площадку для презентации технологических инноваций из азиатских стран. Об этом сообщил вице-губернатор Приморского края Константин Богданенко.

The National Development Programme for the Far East is set to be presented to Vladimir Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum this coming September in Vladivostok.

On 7 January in a telephone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi discussed key issues of bilateral cooperation.

On 12 December Moscow hosted the annual Olympic session. Stanislav Pozdnyakov, chairman of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) delivered a report, where he emphasized that the largest economic forums provide new possibilities to expand international cooperation and promote Olympic values.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation made this announcement during his address at the APEC CEO Summit in Papua New Guinea on 17 November 2018, the Russian Government website says.

Vladimir Putin took part in a plenary meeting of the Russia-ASEAN summit.

The Roscongress Foundation and ASEAN Business Advisory Council signed a memorandum of understanding on 13 November 2018 on the sidelines of the Russia- and East Asia Summit in Singapore during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit. The document was signed by the Roscongress Foundation Chairman of the Board and CEO Alexander Stuglev and by the Chairman of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council Robert Yap.

The 5th Eastern Economic Forum will be held on 4–6 September 2019 at the Far Eastern Federal University campus in Vladivostok.

Most of the Russian President's instructions relate to developing breakthrough technologies, innovative entrepreneurship, and education in the Far East.

Vladimir Putin has invited Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi as the main guest of the Eastern Economic Forum in 2019.