A meeting has taken place in Moscow between Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Anton Kobyakov and Italian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Pasquale Terracciano.

An analysis of the economic and social development of the Russian Far East over the past 5 years is planned for the fifth anniversary of the Eastern Economic Forum, which is to be held 4-6 September in Vladivostok.

A meeting between Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Anton Kobyakov and Governor of the People’s Government of Heilongjiang Province Wang Wentao took place at the International Arctic Forum on 9 April.

The roundtable on trade and economic cooperation between Russia and China (Guangdong Province) was held in Moscow as part of the Governor of Guangdong Ma Xingrui’s visit.

On 1–2 April, the 16th Russia–ASEAN Joint Planning and Managing Committee meeting and the 17th Russia–ASEAN Joint Cooperation Committee meeting took place in Jakarta, Indonesia. The events were attended by Alexander Ivanov, Ambassador of Russia to ASEAN.

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.