XIX International Economic Forum opens in Saint Petersburg

Russia’s largest event in the field of business and economics has gotten underway at Lenexpo Exhibition Complex. This year, the forum is gathering more than 7,000 attendees from 115 countries around the world, with more than 2,000 journalists covering the event.

The main topic at SPIEF 2015 will be the ongoing fight against the global economic crisis, and it is expected that discussions will also touch on world oil prices and the EU sanctions imposed on Russia.

Welcoming remarks to forum participants were delivered by the RF Government Chief of Staff, Chairman of the Organising Committee for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum – Sergei Prikhodko, who noted that the event was Russia’s largest international discussion platform, representing the interests of members of the Russian and foreign business communities. “The Forum has always been, and shall continue to be, a place for open and frank discussion of the most pressing problems in the area of economics and finance, and we are pleased that participation in the event has become an essential point on the work schedule of representatives of the world’s leading companies,” said the speaker.

SPIEF 2015 participants will continue their discussion of current economic issues until 20 June. St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko announced that next year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum would be held at a new venue – the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre – and noted that the change of SPIEF venue would entail the reconstruction of Peterburgskoe Shosse from the ExpoForum turnoff to Vitebsky Prospekt, as well as the construction of an overpass over the railway line in the Vitebsky direction and a traffic interchange at the Pulkovka River dam.

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XIX International Economic Forum opens in Saint Petersburg

Russia’s largest event in the field of business and economics has gotten underway at Lenexpo Exhibition Complex. This year, the forum is gathering more than 7,000 attendees from 115 countries around the world, with more than 2,000 journalists covering the event.

The main topic at SPIEF 2015 will be the ongoing fight against the global economic crisis, and it is expected that discussions will also touch on world oil prices and the EU sanctions imposed on Russia.

Welcoming remarks to forum participants were delivered by the RF Government Chief of Staff, Chairman of the Organising Committee for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum – Sergei Prikhodko, who noted that the event was Russia’s largest international discussion platform, representing the interests of members of the Russian and foreign business communities. “The Forum has always been, and shall continue to be, a place for open and frank discussion of the most pressing problems in the area of economics and finance, and we are pleased that participation in the event has become an essential point on the work schedule of representatives of the world’s leading companies,” said the speaker.

SPIEF 2015 participants will continue their discussion of current economic issues until 20 June. St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko announced that next year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum would be held at a new venue – the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre – and noted that the change of SPIEF venue would entail the reconstruction of Peterburgskoe Shosse from the ExpoForum turnoff to Vitebsky Prospekt, as well as the construction of an overpass over the railway line in the Vitebsky direction and a traffic interchange at the Pulkovka River dam.

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