On 4 September 2019, at the Eastern Economic Forum, the Roscongress Foundation and the Association of Lawyers of Russia signed a trilateral agreement on cooperation with the administration of the Nenets Autonomous Area.
Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Roscongress Foundation Alexander Stuglev, Managing Director and Chief of Staff, member of the board of ALRF Stanislav Alexandrov and Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Area Alexander Tsybulsky signed the agreement.
The agreement’s objective is to expand investment opportunities, develop the export potential of the region and support its socially significant projects.
At the signing ceremony, Alexander Stuglev noted, «Through cooperation between the three parties, the agreement aims to increase the investment attractiveness and export potential of the Nenets Autonomous Area, promote emerging investment and export projects of the region to the domestic and foreign markets».
For his part, Managing Director and Chief of Staff, member of the board of ALRF Stanislav Alexandrov, said, «Establishing a partnership with the Administration of the Nenets Autonomous Area is to facilitate the improvement of legislation and lay the groundwork of the rule-of-law state».
The Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Area Alexander Tsybulsky noted that the signed document is significant for the region. It is to promote investment projects through the international and regional partner network of the Roscongress Foundation, which includes investment funds, associations of industrialists and entrepreneurs, international government commissions and business councils, trade missions and economic departments of the Russian embassies and legal professionals abroad, embassies and foreign trade missions in the Russian Federation.
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The Eastern Economic Forum
The Eastern Economic Forum is an annual event established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin No.250 of 19 May 2015 to support the economic development of Russia’s Far East and to expand international cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. The Eastern Economic Forum 2019 will take place on 4–6 September in Vladivostok on the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) campus on Russky Island.
