Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Anton Kobyakov chaired an interagency meeting in Moscow that focused on promoting the Russian youth agenda at large conventions, exhibitions, and international agencies. The meeting involved repre-sentatives of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Federal Agency for Youth Af-fairs, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Centre for Support of Youth Creative Initiatives (Roskulttsentr), the Centre for Support of Young Specialists, the Presidential Direc-torate for Interregional Relations and Cultural Contacts with Foreign Countries, and the Roscongress Foundation.

The Roscongress Foundation accommodates open business communications not only at forum venues, but also in the digital space. The Foundation and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) have stepped up the Russia–Korea line of business cooperation. A series of online meetings took place between the experts of the Russian tech giant Yandex and promising technological companies of the Republic of Korea.

The Roscongress Foundation, together with its subsidiary RC-Investments Fund, are to attract around USD 200 million of direct investment to the economy of Kamchatka Territory by creating the first Russian world-class falcon centre. A detailed plan for this project will be presented in two weeks.

Today at 19:00 Moscow time, the sporting programme of the Eastern Economic Forum will host the ‘Roscongress Cup. Online Blitz Chess Tournament’ to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The Roscongress Foundation held an online meeting with Vice President for International Relations at the Korean International Trade Association (KITA) Jo Hakhee.

Zapovednye Mesta Tatarskogo Proliva – a resident of the Free Port of Vanino – will open a glamping park by the river that flows into the Datta Bay in Khabarovsk Territory. The project will get RUB 10 million of investment.

If the Russian Far East was a separate country, it would be the seventh largest country by area, right after Australia.

A meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation on 23 April approved the allocation of additional funds to Far Eastern regions in accordance with the Plan for the Social Development of Economic Growth Centres.

President Vladimir Putin recently held a meeting to discuss socioeconomic development in the Far East and the Arctic. In attendance were Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev and Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic Alexander Kozlov.

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk hosted ‘Transition to natural gas a motor fuel: challenges and opportunities’, a large economic conference in preparations for the 6th Eastern Economic Forum. The event brought in Governor of Sakhalin Region Valery Limarenko; Deputy Chairman of Sakhalin Region Government Vladimir Sidorenko; Deputy CEO of the Roscongress Foundation and Director of the Eastern Economic Forum Igor Pavlov; representatives of the Russian Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Industry and Trade, Gazprom, gas equipment suppliers, as well as employees of dealership centres, transportation companies, and the Far East Investment and Export Agency.

On 2–3 March, a large economic event, Sakhalin Gas Conference, will be held in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk as part of the preparations for the 6th Eastern Economic Forum. The key discussion topic will be the transition to the natural gas as automobile fuel. The use of gas-engine fuel helps increase the efficiency due to the transformation of the automobile fuel market, the development of the domestic gas market, and ensuring environmental safety.

On 18 February 2020, the interregional conference on strategic cooperation between Germany and Russia took place in the House of German Economy in Berlin. The topic of the conference organized by the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce together with the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) was ‘Innovations as the Driver of Economic Growth’.

A meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and the Secretary General of ASEAN Lim Jock Hoi took place in Moscow.