2 September 2024
More than 25 winners and
medallists from the Olympic Games, as well as world and European championships
will take part in the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) Sports Games, which will be
held on 3–6 September in Vladivostok. The EEF is being organized by the
Roscongress Foundation.
On 4 September, EEF
participants and Vladivostok residents will take part in the traditional
5-kilometre race, which will kick off the first day of the main Forum programme.
There will be a warm-up for the race hosted by ambassadors and friends of the
Healthy Fatherland movement: seven-time Olympic synchronized swimming champion
Svetlana Romashina, two-time Olympic boxing champion Oleg Saitov, two-time
Olympic fencing champion Yana Egorian, and Olympic artistic gymnastics champion Nikita Nagorny. You can register for the race
in your personal account.
On the eve of the race, star
athletes will take part in the Exercise Marathon. Together with Olympic
cross-country skiing champion Alexander Legkov, Olympic boxing champion Yevgeny
Tishchenko, two-time world boxing champion Raimkul Malakhbekov, and world
artistic gymnastics champion Darya Nagornaya, they will conduct a sports lesson
for 1,500 children from eight schools in Vladivostok.
Olympic cross-country skiing
champion Veronika Stepanova and world snowboarding champion Sofia Nadyrshina
will be actively involved in the work of the Russian Ministry of Sports
pavilion at the Far East Street exhibition. They will also hold a presentation
about the 4th Russian-Chinese Youth Winter Games, during which the
best juniors from the two countries will compete in nine sports in January 2025
in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the town where Nadyrshina was born.
Romashina, Egorian, Nagorny,
Stepanova, and Nadyrshina will also serve as speakers at the session ‘Changing
Times in World Sports. Shaping Russia’s Response’, which will be headed by the
Russian Minister of Sports Mikhail Degtyarev.
“The Russian Ministry of
Sports team headed by Mikhail Degtyarev is systematically working to achieve
the goals that Russian President Vladimir Putin has set for the sports
industry. The involvement of the athletes themselves is also crucial in solving
these problems. In this regard, it made sense to have these speakers take part
in the EEF sports session. The discussions will not simply be attended by star
athletes, but also opinion leaders and ambassadors of their regions,” said Georgy
Bryusov, director of the Centre for Sports Training of Russian National
Teams and a member of the Roscongress Foundation supervisory board.
Olympic figure skating
champion Anna Shcherbakova will put on a show as part of the hockey gala match,
which will be held on 4 September under the auspices of the Made in Russia
brand. The team captains will be two-time Olympic champion Vyacheslav Fetisov
and Olympic champion Ilya Kovalchuk.
Fetisov’s teammates on the Made in Russia team will include two-time Olympic champion Alexei Kasatonov, and Olympic champion Valeri Kamensky. The team will be bolstered by current NHL star – 2024 Stanley Cup champion Sergei Bobrovsky.
Olympic champions Vyacheslav
Butsayev and Vitaly Prokhorov, three-time world champion Danis Zaripov, and
world champion Maxim Sushinsky will play for Kovalchuk’s Made in Russia team.
Bronze medallists from the 2008 Euro football tournament Dmitry Sychev and
Roman Shirokov will also compete in the hockey match. The hockey gala match is
being organized by the Russian Export Center and the Roscongress Foundation.
European chess champion
Vladislav Artemyev, the current holder of the EEF Chess Cup, will return to
Vladivostok to defend his title from last year. Two-time world blitz champion
Valentina Gunina will take part in the international tournament. The geography
of the EEF Cup has now expanded to include 12 countries. Competitors from other
countries include 13-year-old Vietnamese child prodigy Khuong Duy, who will
compete in the adult group. Per tradition, the participants will include
representatives of all regions of the Far Eastern Federal District.
Three-time European curling
champion Nkeiruka Ezekh, the most titled curler in Russia, and her partner Oleg
Krasikov will play in the Pacific Ocean Cup. The Russian national team leaders
will also take part in the 3rd Vladivostok International Regatta.
This year, rowers from eight countries will race in the coastal rowing event.
The Eastern Economic Forum
will be held on the campus of Far Eastern Federal University. The Sports Games
programme was prepared by the Roscongress Foundation’s sports platform, RC Sport.
Please visit the official Forum website to view the EEF Sports Games programme.
More information about the EEF sports events is available at: t.me/Sport_Roscongress.
20 January 2025
European business on the sidelines of international forums: prospects for cooperation
Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Anton Kobyakov held a meeting with Conoscere Eurasia Association President Antonio Fallico in Moscow at which they discussed prospects for trade and economic relations in the Greater Eurasia space and identified opportunities for cooperation between Russian and European businesses on the sidelines of international forums.
28 January 2025
The ‘Arctic – Territory of Dialogue’ International Arctic Forum to be held under the slogan “The North – the place to live!”
A meeting has been held in Moscow between Anton Kobyakov, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee for the ‘Arctic – Territory of Dialogue’ International Arctic Forum, and Andrey Chibis, Governor of the Murmansk Region.
29 January 2025
Selection underway for fourth installment of Muravyov-Amursky 2030 Management Programme training civil servants for the Far East and Arctic
The Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic and the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation are working together to implement the Muravyov-Amursky 2030 Management Programme, providing training for civil servants and development institutions in the Russian Far East.
