Partners

Russian company, a subsidiary of Daimler AG concern. Mercedes-Benz Vans is responsible for the import of small, mid- and large-size vans – Citan, Vito and Sprinter. In partnership with the «GAZ Group», Sprinter Classic is produced in Nizhny Novgorod; starting from 2013 there were sold more than 17,600 units. In addition to local sales, Sprinter Classic is exported to Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia.

Since 2013 engines for Sprinter Classic have been produced at the facilities of Yaroslavl Motor Plant (YMZ). Yaroslavl is the world’s sole supplier of certain parts for these engines.

Thanks to cooperation with certified Russian bodybuilders, minibuses, all-metal vans, refrigerated van, ambulances, as well as special laboratories, mobile shops, vehicles with special protection, on-board platforms with various add-ons and many other modifications based on Sprinter Classic are manufactured locally.

PJSC Rostelecom (www.rostelecom.ru) is one of the largest national telecommunications operators in Russia and Europe. The Group operates in all segments of the telecommunications market and covers millions of households in Russia.

Rostelecom is an undisputable leader of the broadband and pay-TV markets in Russia with over 12.2 million fixed-line broadband subscribers and over 9.2 million pay-TV subscribers, over 4.0 million of which are subscribed to Rostelecom’s IPTV services.

In the 9 months of 2016 the Group generated RUB 217.0 billion of consolidated revenues, RUB 72.4 billion of OIBDA (33.4% of revenue) and RUB 8.7 billion of net income.

The Group is a market leader in providing telecommunications services to government bodies and corporates of all levels. It is also an important innovator that provides solutions in the field of medicine, E-Government, cloud computing, education, security and housing & utility services.

Rostelecom was assigned ‘BBB-’ and ‘BB+’ international credit ratings by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s respectively.

Rosneft is the leading Russian offshore license holder. The Company owns 55 licensed areas with total hydrocarbon resources of about 43 bln toe.

Having organized 12 complex research expeditions in 5 years, Rosneft acts as a driving force for the scientific study of the Arctic region. These expeditions are intended to study the ice conditions, including glaciers and icebergs.

In 2016 the first operation on towing of iceberg, weight of which exceeds 1 mmt, was carried out in Russia, which was a significant event in the world practice.

Rosneft has almost entirely restored the system of meteorological observations in the Arctic. The modern meteorological network will not only optimize exploration works and improve efficiency of upstream projects, but will also launch a series of scientific and research programmes on exploration of the Arctic region.

As part of the Arctic expeditions Rosneft also studies polar bears using advanced  technologies. Special collars with satellite transmitters are placed on animals in order to track their movements, biological samples are taken.

Nornickel Group is the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium and one of the world’s leading producers of platinum and copper.

The Group is involved in
• prospecting, exploration, extraction, refining and metallurgical processing of minerals
• production, marketing and sale of base and precious metals.

The main Russian production units of the Group are vertically integrated and include:
• the Polar Division of MMC Norilsk Nickel
• Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company

The Group also includes:
• Gipronickel Institute, a research and development facility located in Saint Petersburg (Russia), with branches in the cities of Norilsk and Monchegorsk;
• Norilsk Process Technology, a research and development facility in Australia.

Norilsk Nickel has its own global network of representative and sales offices in Russia, the UK, China, USA and Switzerland.

MMC Norilsk Nickel’s securities:
• In Russia MMC Norilsk Nickel’s shares are admitted to trading on the Moscow and on the Saint-Petersburg Exchanges
• When determining the strategy for its global operations and future development, Nornickel is focused on compliance with all social and environmental responsibility principles.

NOVATEK is the largest independent natural gas producer in Russia and the country’s second largest company in terms of production volumes. Established in 1994, the Company is engaged in the exploration, production and processing of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons. The Company produces hydrocarbons at 13 fields.

The Company created efficient production and processing facilities. In 2016 The Company’s cumulated marketable production reached 537.0 MMBOE which is 3.0% above the 2015 level.

NOVATEK ranks among the Top 5 oil-and-gas companies globally in terms of proved natural gas reserves. At year-end 2016, the Company’s reserves-to-production ratio was 24 years.

The Company’s largest project is Yamal LNG, which envisages the construction of a natural gas liquefaction plant on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia, with a capacity of 16.5 million tons of LNG per annum. The first train of the plant will be commissioned in Q4 2017.

Rosgeo is the largest Russian diversified exploration holding company, which provides a full scope of exploration services, ranging from regional surveys to parametric drilling and subsoil monitoring. It boasts unique expertise, particularly in marine geology and shelf operations.

63 enterprises comprising the holding company are located in all federal districts of Russia, operating in 40 regions.

A total of more than 1,000 fields and deposits have been discovered by the holding’s companies, including major hydrocarbon and solid mineral deposits and fields such as the Astrakhan field, the Tengiz field, the Kovykta field, the Sukhoi Log deposit, the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, and many others.

The Rosgeo enterprises have rich experience in implementing projects abroad and boast dozens new fields and deposits discovered in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. The list of the holding’s clients includes such companies as Lukoil, Severstal, Norilsk Nickel, NLMK, Sibuglemet, BP, Chevron and others.

United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia employing over 80,000 people. USC consolidates over 80% of design and production capacities of the industry and includes about 40 leading domestic shipyards, design offices and ship repair yards. USC’s warships are traditionally distinguished by high quality and reliability combined with combat efficiency, ease maintenance and operation economy. The Corporation also builds a modern commercial fleet for operations at sea, in offshore and inland waterways.

SC 58, Arkhangelskoye shosse, Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, 164500, Russia
Tel.: +7 (8184) 50-47-17
Fax: +7 (8184) 58-02-19
E-mail: smp@sevmash.ru
www.sevmash.ru

SC “PO “Sevmash” (a part of SC “United Shipbuilding Corporation”) is the largest shipbuilding complex in Russia.

Basic directions of activity:

• Civil shipbuilding.
• Manufacture of marine technical equipment for production of oil and gas.
• Manufacture of technical purpose products for machine-building, oil and gas and other branches of industry.
• Warranty repair and modernization ships, dismantling of the same.
• Design of vessels, marine structures, marine equipment, equipment for oil and gas production.

Address: 394018, Voronezh,

Plekhanovskaya st, д.14. 

Tel./Fax: (473) 252-12-13

e-mail: office@sozvezdie.su

http://www.sozvezdie.su

JSC “Concern “Sozvezdie” is a part of JSC “United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation”.

JSC “Concern “Sozvezdie” specializes in development and manufacture of high-tech control and communication systems, radioelectronic warfare equipment and special hardware for the needs of the Army and other special forces, up-to-date systems and means, and also civil and telecommunication products based on the latest scientific and technological achievements and innovative technologies, software for them.

The main activities:

• автоматизированные системы связи и управления для тактического и оперативного звена; automated communication and control systems for tactical and operational levels;
• air defense automated communication system;
• electronic warfare automated systems and means;
• special purpose automated systems for non-confidential and confidential digital radio communication and control;
• professional communication systems and means and also broadband communication systems.

Registered office at 2, Baydukov str., Penza, 440000, Russian Federation

General Director: Viktor Stepanovich Besiaev

JSC “SIE “Rubin” is a part of JSC “United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation”. JSC “SIE “Rubin” is a scientific-industrial enterprise widely reputed in Russia and specialized in the field of developing and manufacturing vehicles for surveillance, reconnaissance and transmission of data on the situation. It is also the leading designer and supplier of tactical level air defence control facilities, special and commercial data transmission equipment.

The enterprise performs the entire life cycle of the products manufactured: research and development, articles mass production, field and engineering supervision during use, articles repair and upgrading.

Address: 1, Komsomolskaya Sq., Nizhniy Novgorod, 603950, Russia

Telephone: (831) 245-21-04, fax: (831) 249-39-41

e-mail: mail@npp-polyot.ru

http://www.npp-polyot.ru

«POLYOT Research & Production Company», JSC is part of the “United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation”, JSC.

Nowadays “POLYOT Research & Production Company”, JSC is a leading enterprise of the radio electronic branch with respect to development, manufacture and service support of communication technical facilities, complexes and systems for military and civil aircraft.

The company is specified as a leading research establishment of the military-industrial complex in the field of:
– system of airborne command posts of the Russian Federation Armed Forces automated control system (АCS)
– air-ground communication systems, complexes and facilities
– integrated system of communication, data exchange, navigation and identification.

JSC “Scientific-Research Institute of Communication Systems and Control” is works on the creation of specialized systems for the Defense Ministry and other law enforcement agencies. Main directions of activity: development and supply of funds, facilities and elements of modern digital communication systems, facilities and complexes of the automated control system of the Airborne Forces; creation and implementation of multi-functional technical systems and special protection of the automated control systems for military use; conduct special inspections, special investigations, special surveys, certification of the information objects.

Address: Russia, 390000
Ryazan, Lermontov 11 str.
Tel: +7 (4912) 292733
e-mail: mail@radiozavod.ru
www.radiozavod.ru

JSC “Ryazan Radio Plant” is a part of JSC “United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation”.

Priority directions of JSC “Ryazan Radio Plant” is a manufacturer of various kinds of digital radio, including the 5th generation used in the automated systems of communication and control tactical and operational level management, production of integrated systems for voice communications troops and missile defense; Powertrain manufacturing for automated communication systems, tactical control; design, manufacture and installation of various complexes of educational and training facilities, maintenance and communications equipment repair.

Address: Russia, 121170, Moscow,
Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 34 
Tel.: 8 (499) 753 4004 
Email: mail@vega.su 
www.vega.su

JSC Vega Concern is part of United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation. The concern was established in 2004 and unites twenty scientific research, design and production enterprises that specialize in the development and production of complex radio electronic systems and complexes.

The concern’s main areas of production and scientific design activities include the development, manufacturing, operation, warranty and servicing of reconnaissance and guidance aircraft systems, ground, aircraft and space guidance systems, environmental monitoring systems, ground and air-based civil and special-purpose vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, balloon systems, equipment and instruments for air traffic control, navigation and landing at airfields and on aircraft carriers, mobile automated control and special purpose communications systems, including systems for export.

OOO “Oboronlogistika” (Limited Liability Company) – is a commercial organization, established in 2011 in the structure of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.  For the present moment, the sole member owning 100% of shares of OOO “Oboronlogistika” is
AO “Oboronstroy” (Joint Stock Company).

The main goal of the Company is the logistics support of operations of
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as well as the organization of cooperation with state corporations and other major companies (GK “Rostec”, OAO “Rosoboronexport”) and Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation, PAO “RZD”, etc.

In addition to a wide range of logistics tasks in the interests of the defense establishment, the Company successfully works in the sphere of military-technical cooperation, cooperates with a wide range of civilian commercial organizations and constantly expands the scope of its activities.

OOO “Oboronlogistika” is actively engaged with foreign partners.

In the field of transport logistics OOO “Oboronlogistika” provides the following services:

• transportation of goods for military and civil purposes (including hazardous and oversized goods) by air, water and land transport, including multimodal transportation;
• customs clearance of export-import operations;
• Assistance to  foreign partners of  Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in  organizing of delivery and customs clearance of goods arriving for participation in exhibitions, presentations, tests within the military-technical cooperation;
• storage services;
• processing of tires.

Sovfracht, headquartered in Moscow, Russia, is one of the country’s leading private transportation companies involved in infrastructure management, rail and container freight forwarding, project cargo and heavy lift logistics, auto haulage, warehouse logistics, ship management, agency services and ocean freight.

Sovfracht is financially sound, with 2016 sales over US $500 mln and strong balance sheet. With a head count of over 1,000 skilled employees, the reputation and finance resources the company ensures timely execution of complex large-scale long-term projects.

Along with cargo transportation services Sovfracht offers its clients a wide range of add-ons: consulting, legal support, assistance in negotiations, liaison with local port and railway authorities planning and selection of the optimal route with respect to various transportation modes, benchmarking in order to enable shareholders of a client to evaluate their logistics divisions.

FESCO is one of the leading privately-owned transportation and logistics companies in Russia with operations in ports, rail, integrated logistics and shipping business. Diversified but integrated asset portfolio enables FESCO to provide door-to-door logistics solutions and control almost all steps of the intermodal transportation value chain. The majority of FESCO’s operations are located in the Russian Far East. FESCO is one of the leaders of container transportation through the Russian Far East via international sea container lines to/from Asian countries, domestic sea container lines and by rail. FESCO is one the leading port container operators in the Far Eastern region. FESCO owns the Commercial Port of Vladivostok, as well as railway operating company Transgarant and 50% interest in fitting platform operator Russkaya Troyka. FESCO itself operates fleet of 3.5 thousand container platforms. FESCO has a fleet of 20 vessels, mostly deployed through own sea lines. In addition, the Group has a 25.1% interest in PJSC TransContainer.

Rostec State Corporation is a Russian industrial corporation established in 2007 to support the design, manufacture, and export of high-tech industrial products for civilian and military purposes.

Today Rostec includes about 700 entities currently organized into 11 holding companies in the defense industry and 3 – in civilian industries.
The corporation’s portfolio includes such famous brands as AVTOVAZ, KAMAZ, Russian Helicopters, VSMPO-AVISMA and others. Rostec’s enterprises are located across 60 constituent members of the Russian Federation marketing their products to more than 70 countries.

JSC VTB Bank is the primary bank of VTB Group – a global provider of financial services, comprised of over 20 credit institutions and financial companies operating across all key areas of the financial markets.

VTB’s global network is unique to the Russian banking industry. It enables the group to facilitate international partnerships and promote Russian companies aiming to engage with global markets. VTB operates a large international network across CIS countries; Armenia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. VTB also has banks in Austria, Germany and France which are part of a European sub-holding with VTB Bank (Austria) acting as the parent bank for Germany and France. The Group also has subsidiary and affiliated banks in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Serbia, Georgia and Angola and branches in China and India and VTB Capital has branches in Singapore and Dubai.

The majority shareholder of the VTB Bank is the Russian Government, which owns 60.9 percent of the voting shares.

ROSATOM is the Russian Federation national nuclear corporation bringing together circa 350 nuclear companies and R&D institutions that operate in the civilian and defense sectors. With 70 years’ expertise in the nuclear field, we are a global leader in technologies and competencies offering cutting-edge industry solutions. We work on a global scale to provide comprehensive nuclear services that range from uranium enrichment to nuclear waste treatment. ROSATOM is a proponent of the uniform national policy and best management practices in nuclear power utilization, the nuclear weapons industry, and nuclear safety. ROSATOM is responsible for meeting Russia’s international commitments regarding peaceful uses of nuclear energy and nuclear non-proliferation. Other – ROSATOM lines of business include nuclear medicine and composite materials.

SCF Group is the largest shipping company in Russia and one of the global leaders in energy shipping. It specializes in the transportation of crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied gas. 

SCF Group is also among global leaders in servicing offshore upstream oil and gas projects, with a strong focus on working in extreme climate conditions, such as the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas.

At a glance:

• 146 vessels with a total deadweight of over 13 million tonnes
• One of the three largest tanker fleets in the world
• World’s largest operator of ice class vessels
• Global leader in Arctic shuttle tankers
• Global leader in icebreaking platform supply vessels
• Energy projects serviced by SCF: Sakhalin 1, Sakhalin 2, Varandey, Prirazlomnoye, Novy Port, Yamal LNG, Tangguh (Indonesia)
• Works with major international and Russian energy companies, including Gazprom, Lukoil, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, PetroChina, BP, Sakhalin Energy, and Sibur
• 8,000 professionals at sea and ashore

Sberbank is Russia’s largest bank and a leading global financial institution. Sberbank holds almost one third of aggregate Russian banking sector assets, it is the key lender to the national economy and the biggest deposit taker in Russia. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is the founder and principal shareholder of Sberbank owning 50% of the Bank’s authorized capital plus one voting share, with the remaining 50% held by domestic and international investors. Sberbank has more than 135 million individual customers and more than 1 million corporate clients in 22 countries. Sberbank has the largest distribution network in Russia with almost 17,000 branches, and its international operations include UK, US, CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and other countries.

The Bank holds the general banking license No.1481 issued by the Bank of Russia.

www.sberbank.com
www.sberbank.ru

Joint Stock Company “Russian Railways” is one of the largest rail companies in the world with huge volumes of passenger and freight transportation. The company has high ratings, qualified specialists in all the spheres of the rail business, extensive scientific and technological basis, project and construction facilities, experience in international cooperation. 100% of the stock of the company operating the railways network as long as 85.3 thousand kilometers belongs to the Russian Federation. Every year Russian Railways carries more than 1 billion passengers and ships up to 45.3% of the country’s cargo turnover (including pipelines). Russian Railways belongs to the top 3 of the leaders of the rail industry of the world. The major objectives of the company – to ensure the demand off the state, legal units and the people in rail transportation, work and services rendered by the rail transport, as well as bringing profit. The company’s mission is to meet the market demand for transportation services, increase efficiency, quality of services and deep integration into the Eurasian transport system.

Read more at http://eng.rzd.ru/

Power machines PJSC is the largest power engineering company in Russia, boasting a wealth of international experience and competence in engineering design, manufacturing and complete deliveries of equipment for thermal, nuclear, hydro and gas turbine power plants. The company makes the top 5 among world leading energy companies, accounting for approximately 70% of power engineering industry market in Russia and the CIS.

Key customers include leading Russian and foreign companies, such as RusHydro, Rosatom, Gazprom Energoholding, Inter RAO, and Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.

Manufactured goods are exported to more than 57 countries. Russia, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the CIS are the priority markets.

3A Vatutina st., St. Petersburg, 195009, Russia

www.power-m.ru

www.facebook.com/power.machines.company

LUKOIL is one of the largest international vertically-integrated private oil and gas companies which accounts for over 2% of global oil production and about 1% of proved hydrocarbon reserves.

LUKOIL is engaged in the following major activities: exploration and development of oil and gas fields, production and distribution of oil products, petrochemicals and electrical power.

The Company plays a key role in the fuel and energy complex of Russia having a 15% share in oil production and refining sectors in Russia. LUKOIL is one of the largest taxpayers in the country.

LUKOIL works in more than 40 countries of the world continuously expanding the geography of its operations.

Refineries of the Company are located in Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, close to its major markets. Owed to the recently completed refinery upgrade program LUKOIL now has one of the most modern refining capacities in Russia. All LUKOIL refineries produce Euro-5 gasoline and diesel fuel. The Company was the first in Russia to shift completely to Euro-5 gasoline production in 2012 and began production of fuel of higher environmental classes.

The Company has a wide distribution network of 5,000 gas stations in world wide to sell its products in proximity to the regions where its refineries are located. Today LUKOIL sells its branded fuel, EKTO, in 14 countries of the world.

Russia’s main news channel

More than 10 years, news channel Russia 24 has been leading Russia’s television news broadcast.

75% of Russians regard the channel as their main news source, while more than half of the interviewed state that they watch Russia 24 on a regular basis.

Our channel’s audience has been constantly growing throughout its history: since the first broadcast year, when it reached 0.3%, the share has now increased to 2.4%. The most loyal segment of the audience is comprised of men from 25 to 39 years old.

News channel Russia 24 has created a unified and united information space, giving simultaneous news access to the entire Russian population: from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad.

According to the data of the Analytical Information System “Medialogia”, “Russia 24” is a leader in quoting among the Russian TV channels.

Rossiya Segodnya is an international media group whose mission is to cover world events in a prompt and unbiased manner and to inform its audiences about various viewpoints on key events, including those uncovered by other media outlets.

The media group is Russia’s largest provider of information products for a wide international audience, offering radio broadcasting, 24х7 newswires, information portals in over 30 languages, multimedia press centers, production and distribution of photo content and infographics, platforms in social networks and mobile applications.

Rossiya Segodnya is headed by journalists, Dmitry Kiselev as Director General and Margarita Simonyan as Editor-in-Chief.

TASS – Russia’s government-run news agency and an integral part of the world media system – has been in the media business since 1904

A staff of more than 1,000 and more than 60 foreign bureaus and 70 regional centers in Russia maintain a steady news flow on line round the clock.

TASS generates a diversified line of news and audio-visual products and services in Russian and English, encompassing practically all aspects of society’s life: politics, the economy, business, international relations, science, culture and sports.

The richest reference fund and a unique photo archive are capable of providing illustrations and reference information to accompany any news item within seconds.

Every year TASS holds hundreds of promotion events featuring Russian and foreign political leaders, representatives of the biggest Russian and foreign companies, culture workers, scientists and athletes.

On the list of its subscribers TASS has both Russian and foreign mass media, federal and regional bodies of state power, diplomatic missions, representatives of business and financial circles, non-governmental organizations and many others.

TASS is the most pro-active and authoritative member of world and regional media organizations, which maintain relations of partnership with more than 60 news agencies around the world.

TASS: We know!

“Rossiyskaya Gazeta” is a modern multimedia group that provides readers daily with up-to-date, reliable and relevant information about Russian regional and federal affairs and worldwide events.

The newspaper and its electronic platforms publish news, features, exclusive interviews and comments from public officials and the most powerful representatives of business, politics and culture.

Today “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” is the leader in terms of audience size in the segment of daily sociopolitical and business newspapers. It is also among the leaders of the media citation rating.

Media holding of “Rossiyskaya gazeta” include:

“Rossiyskaya gazeta” – Daily social and political newspaper

“Rossiyskaya gazeta – Nedelya” – Weekly issue

“Rodina” – Monthly historical magazine

RG.RU – Web portal

Business FM – Russia’s first business radio station.

Broadcasting in Moscow at the frequency 87.5 FM
St. Petersburg – 107.4 FM
Ufa – 107.5 FM
Kaliningrad – 101.8 FM
Ekaterinburg – 99.4 FM
Krasnoyarsk – 104.2 FM
Сhelyabinsk – 100.8 FM
Nignii Novgorod – 107.8 FM
Novosibirsk – 105.7 FM
Samara – 90.6 FM
Kazan – 93.5 FM

Business FM provides an exclusive product for a small segment of the general public but the most active and influential one, which in minutes must have the full spectrum of information about money. Business FM is a member company of the RUMEDIA group of companies. www.businessfm.bfm.ru.

Telephone:  +7 (495) 660-88-75, reclama@businessfm.ru

RT is a global television news network, broadcasting around-the-clock from Moscow to more than 700 million people in over 100 countries in English, Arabic and Spanish. The RT network also includes RT America channel airing in the US, RT UK broadcasting in Britain, documentary channel RTDoc in English and Russian, online news platforms in French and German and a global video news agency, RUPTLY.  RT covers the major issues of our time for viewers wishing to “Question More” and delivers stories overlooked by the mainstream media to create news with an edge. RT provides an alternative perspective on major global events, and acquaints an international audience with the Russian viewpoint.  RT has a weekly TV audience of 70 million people in 38 countries (Ipsos), of which 35 million watch RT daily. It is also the most watched TV news network on YouTube with more than 4 billion views. RT is the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Award for best 24-hr broadcast, and the only Russian TV channel to receive four nominations for the International Emmy Awards for News.

Rambler News Service (RNS) is a rapidly growing agency, specializing in providing in-depth and engaging analysis of current affairs in Russia and beyond, exclusive economic news and related multimedia content.

By focusing on the major events, decisions, appointments and resignations within the intricate framework of big corporations, we are able to bring you video content featuring topical commentary from leading business, economic and political experts.

Forming part of the Rambler&Co digital group, our team of over 50 seasoned specialists report in real time and around the clock on the economy, policies and everything in between, delivering content for thirteen different topic-specific news feeds: Economy, Finances, Energy sector, Internet, Industry, Consumer markets, IT and Media, Transport, Military-Industrial complex, Sports economics, Regional economics.

Lenta.ru, an electronic media outlet, is registered by the Ministry for Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. Registration certificate # 77-2061, dated November 11, 1999.

Lenta.ru is a popular internet media outlet providing both global and national news. Up to 20 mln users visit Lenta.ru web site monthly, with more than 200 million page views per month (based on Liveinternet assessment). In 2016, Lenta.ru became the second online resource in Russia in regard of quotation, according to the information analysys system Medialogia.

Lenta.ru includes the project House (real estate, architecture, design and urban environment.

We report the major and the most interesting news in the and around the globe on 24/7 basis.

Lenta.ru is active in the most popular social networks, including Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter, and Classmates. The total number of subscribers for Lenta.ru accounts exceeds 2.3 million and counting.

Gazeta.ru is the first socio-political online newspaper was launched in September 1999. It’s one of the 5 biggest Russian on-line newspapers according to the LiveInternet.ru audience rating and one of the 3 leading Russian on-line newspaper according to the mlg.ru citation rating. Gazeta.ru daily publishes news, exclusive materials and interviews of leading public and political figures, as well as picture stories and events online broadcasting. In addition, it provides special projects, video galleries, video programs and mobile applications.

>Business daily Vedomosti is the authoritative source of business information for 15 years, effective tool for important strategic decisions. There is latest news, expert analytic, infographic, market review and exclusive interviews to primary sources.

This project is created in conjunction with the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal for people who has their own opinion. Vedomosti includes web-site Vedomosti.ru, mobile version and free mobile apps for all platforms.

3, Polkovaya str., bld. 1, Moscow, 127018, Russian Federation

Tel: +7 495 232 3200
Fax: +7 495 232 1784

www.vedomosti.ru
www.twitter.com/vedomosti
www.facebook.com/Vedomosti
www.vk.com/vedomosti

NTV has ranked among the top three television channels in Russia for more than 20 years. Oriented at a diverse audience over the age of 18. NTV’s broadcast reaches 99.2 percent of the country’s population and is a top choice for Russian viewers who have a strong interest in domestic and global current events.

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of news and information for professional markets. Our customers rely on us to deliver the intelligence, technology and expertise they need to find trusted answers. The business has operated in more than 100 countries for more than 100 years. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. For more information, visit http://thomsonreuters.ru/

>Business daily Vedomosti is the authoritative source of business information for 15 years, effective tool for important strategic decisions. There is latest news, expert analytic, infographic, market review and exclusive interviews to primary sources.

This project is created in conjunction with the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal for people who has their own opinion. Vedomosti includes web-site Vedomosti.ru, mobile version and free mobile apps for all platforms.

3, Polkovaya str., bld. 1, Moscow, 127018, Russian Federation

Tel: +7 495 232 3200
Fax: +7 495 232 1784

www.vedomosti.ru
www.twitter.com/vedomosti
www.facebook.com/Vedomosti
www.vk.com/vedomosti

China Radio International (CRI) was founded on December 3, 1941. CRI aims to introduce China to the rest of the world, introduce the world to China, report global affairs to the world, and promote understanding and friendship between the Chinese and peoples from other countries. CRI is China’s only state-level radio and television media organization specializing in international communications.

CRI has undergone a great transformation from a traditional single-platform media organization using shortwave broadcasts to an international multimedia entity that incorporates all mass communication means. At present, CRI uses 61 languages in its overseas reporting work and broadcasts a daily total of 2,700-plus programming hours. CRI has nearly 70 overseas, dedicated affiliate radio stations and 18 global internet radio services, and receives 3 million pieces of audience feedback every year. CRI has six overseas main regional bureaus and 32 overseas correspondent bureaus. It is a communication platform that incorporates the greatest number of communication means in China and includes the greatest number of language services among mainstream global media organizations.

RBC (RBC PJSC) is a leading Russian media holding, with leadership positions in news and business media, as well as in domain name registration and hosting. The company’s history counts more than 20 years. RBC employs key media platforms such as the Internet, TV, and press, develops B2B media services, and provides domain registration and hosting services (RU-CENTER Group).

Statistics shows that practically every other economically active Russian citizen is RBC’s business project reader or viewer. RBC’s aggregate monthly business audience exceeds 34m people (source: TNS data, including overlapping audience). At the same time, Rbc.ru has continually been ranked among top online media in the citation ranking (source: Medialogia data for 2014).

RU-CENTER Group provides services to more than 1 million users, with major Russian companies and leading players on the Internet market among them.

News Deeply is an award-winning new media company dedicated to covering the world’s most important and underreported stories. Our journalists and technologists create in-depth digital platforms that serve as a hub of news, information and analysis. By fusing rigorous reporting and cutting-edge information design, we make a complex world easier for our readers to understand.

At News Deeply, we’ve pioneered a model we call “Impact Publishing” – a combination of high-quality content and proactive community management. Our platforms unite an audience of policymakers and domain specialists, connecting those who are most intimately involved in the topic at hand. Through interactive dialogues, virtual events and live convenings, we advance the conversation, leading to a more engaged public and better-informed policy decisions.

We believe that even the toughest issues can be made accessible in a clear and compelling format. In a crowded and complicated world, our platforms separate the signal from the noise, surfacing vital information and key trends on issues that matter, deeply, to the state of our world today.  

REN TV is one of the largest federal TV channels in Russia.

It was founded in 1991 as an independent production house. In 1997 REN TV started its own broadcasting in Russia.

Nowadays REN TV offers a wide content rage – from news and own non-fictional documentaries, to the most popular foreign blockbusters and TV-series (‘Game of thrones’, ‘Homeland’, etc).

In 2016 REN TV became the most fast-growing TV-channel on the media market and the most popular TV-channel among Russian men.

REN TV has a stable position in TOP-5 of the most quoted TV-channels. Moreover, REN TV website www.ren.tv remains in TOP-10 of the most popular news resources.

REN TV Channel is owned by National Media Group. In addition to REN TV, National Media Group is a shareholder of Channel One, 5 Channel, Russian News Service, Art Pictures Vision, Izvestiya and Metro-Petersburg newspapers. 

REN TV is a prize-winner of Russian and international awards, including Promax, TEFI and MediaBrand.

REN TV has 15 million viewers daily in more than 1200 Russian cities.

Interfax is the leading information group in the CIS and the recognized leader in the B2B segment of Russia’s information market. Interfax was founded in 1989, when a group of journalists formed an information agency that became the first nongovernmental outlet for the political and economic news about the Soviet Union. Interfax is the most frequently cited source for information on Russia and the CIS in the world media and the most popular newswire service on the Russian financial market.

Interfax develops professional information solutions that help companies operate in the financial and commodity markets, enabling them to make investment decisions, manage risk, organize external communications and fulfill regulatory requirements.

Interfax’s best-known services include SPARK (counterparty risk management), EFiR (market data and analytics), SPARK-Marketing (analysis of commodity markets), E-DISCLOSURE.RU (regulatory news disclosure center), SCAN (media analysis and monitoring), ASTRA (analytical solution for compliance with Russian law on transfer pricing), X-Compliance (Know Your Customer solution to comply with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing legislation).

Under the Interfax Global Energy brand the Interfax group provides English language information services on the global natural gas market.

Working with Sberbank of Russia and Experian, Interfax created the United Credit Bureau, Russia’s market leader for consumer credit information. Interfax’s joint venture with Dun & Bradstreet, another international information market leader, provides business information.

The newspaper “Izvestia”, izvestia.ru

Russian national newspaper. Published since March 13, 1917.

Over 100 years of “Izvestiya” are leaders in the field of media, providing an unprecedented impact on the public and political life of the country, asking the most important social trends, contributing to the humanization of society, transparency, dialogue between the citizen and the government.

“Izvestia”, lived 100 years together with the country today – a multimedia edition, innovative and at the same time faithful to the best traditions of domestic press.

Exclusive information on the leading Russian and foreign events, copyrighted material, analytics, which gives the key to understanding the events, new forms and channels of information flow – these are real “News” magazine for those who want to live in Russia, and to be a part of the modern world.

Scientific, informational and analytic journal “The Arctic: ecology and economy” is a leading Russian specialized scientific periodical press covering the topical issues of study, sustainable environmental and economic development of the Russian Arctic area and the whole Arctic.

A founder of the journal is the Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBRAE RAN).

Mailing address: B. Tulskaya 52, 115191 Moscow, Russia

E-mail: filin@ibrae.ac.ru, das@ibrae.ac.ru.

The Journal is published since 2011 with periodicity of 4 issues per year; 24 issues were published.

The certificate of registration of mass media: 2012.06.06, PI No. FS77-50177.

The International Standard Serial Number: ISSN 2223-4594.

Website: http://arctica-ac.ru

On December 1, 2015, the Journal is included in the list of peer-reviewed scientific publications (list of VAK-2015) on science areas: Economic Sciences, Earth Sciences; and a group of scientific disciplines: Shipbuilding, Safety of Human Activity.

Editor-in-chief of the Journal is Ashot A. Sarkisov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Adviser of RAS.

119048, Russia, Moscow, Rossolimo 17
Phone: +7 495 2298587
Email: info@pro-arctic.ru
www.pro-arctic.ru

PRO-ARCTIC is a leading Russian independent information analytical web portal dedicated to the responsible and sustainable development of resources in the Arctic.

Covering Arctic offshore and onshore energy projects, , maritime industry, telecom, logistics and infrastructure development , portal is as an one-stop  platform for both Russian and international professionals and industry experts to share experience on the most pressing questions related to the development of resources in the Far North.

Visitors can review the latest news, learn about new technologies applied in severe conditions of the Arctic as well as read interviews of the leading experts in this area.

Our main audience is Russian and foreign energy industry and maritime and telecom professionals, representatives of public authorities, regional organizations, consulting and investment companies, scientists and industry experts.

ATK-Media is the biggest mass media Holding company in the Arkhangelsk region. At the moment the Holding company incorporates 11 mass media offering local and regional information products. The Holding company is represented by four television companies, four print media and three Internet editorial offices.
The television broadcasts of the Holding company affiliates are available in all areas of the Arkhangelsk region. Separate creative teams work in Arkhangelsk, Novodvinsk and Kotlas. In 2017 the TV channel Pravda Severa became a public regional channel.
The Holding company printed media are represented by newspapers and magazines. The main regional newspaper having its centenary Pravda Severa is published now in 48 full-color pages and is circulated all over the region. A vivid edition of MK in Arkhangelsk takes the niche market of sharp ultra-budget newspapers. The Holding company Internet sites region29.ru, dvinainform.ru and pravdasevera.ru operate as news agencies quickly providing information agenda.

Arctic Herald is the only Russian information-analytical journal that regularely publishes Russian vision on broad scope of Arctic issues. The journal has been initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation with support of the Russian Geographical society in 2012. The journal considers politicians and high officials shaping their countries’ arctic policy, science and business community and regional leaders as one of its target audiences. According to our information, in these spheres the journal is regarded as one of the most important source of information on our country’s policy in tthe North.

From 2015 the journal is officially suported by the State Commission of the Arctic Development of the RF and since then it gives main attention to the Commssion’s activity.

On the distribution list of the journal are the Foreign Ministries and Embassies of the Northern countries and observers in the Arctic Council. The journal is bilingual, it is published in English and Russian.

The publisher and founder is the International Publishing House the Arctic.

Editor-in-Chief is Alexander Ignatiev, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador.

Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua in short, founded on November 7, 1931, is the state news agency of China and world news agency as well.

With its headquarters in Beijing, Xinhua has established 33 branches in China’s provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and has resident correspondents in Taiwan Province. There are more than 180 overseas bureaus, constituting a worldwide network of news and information gathering and releasing.

Xinhua had a multi-lingual, multi-media, multi-channel, multi-level, multi-function news release system, offering its broad clients news and financial information products in the form of text, photo, graphic, audio, video and mobile phone message 24 hours a day in eight languages of Chinese, English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese.

Within the print media sector Xinhua News Agency has a portfolio of more than 20 newspapers and magazines, with combined single-issue circulation topping 10 million. Its highly respected newspapers, such as “The Xinhua Daily Telegraph”, and news magazines, such as the popular “Outlook”, are among the most authoritative and influential publications in the country.

Xinhua also has the largest multilingual databank in China’s media industry. By the end of 2013 it had stored 120 million text messages, more than 19 million photo and graphic products, 650 000 hours of audio and video news broadcasts. This constantly upgraded and daily-growing databank provides modern, fast, commercial intelligence that displays Xinhua’s news and information products in many languages and multimedia formats, directly serving its end users of China and abroad.     

bne IntelliNews publishes business news and data on emerging markets. Our goal is to provide pragmatic and actionable information for investors and companies. We publish news coverage of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as data and forecasting on more than 72 different countries and 400 industry/commodity categories.

Our headquarters are in London and suburban Boston, with editorial bureaus located throughout the regions we cover.

A New Sparta company, bne IntelliNews is the combination of bne Media (the publisher of bne magazine, founded in 2006) and Emerging Markets Direct, the parent publisher of IntelliNews news – and viewswire founded in 1998. Both companies were acquired and merged in 2014 by Jerome Booth’s New Sparta.

The Arctic Portal, www.arcticportal.org, is a comprehensive gateway to Arctic information and data on the internet, increasing information sharing and co-operation among Arctic stakeholders and granting exposure to Arctic related information and data.

The Arctic Portal is operated in consultation and co-operation with members of the Arctic Council and its Working Groups, Permanent Participants, Observers and other Stakeholders. The Arctic Portal is a network of information and data sharing and serves as host to many web sites in a circumpolar context, supporting co-operation and outreach in science, education, and policy making.

The Arctic Portal is managed as non-profitable organization, located in Akureyri, Iceland, under an international board of directors.

The Arctic Portal provides web presence to over 50 scientific institutions, associations and project of international importance and participates in Arctic research projects such as European Commission funded EDU-ARCTIC, APPLICATE, EU Arctic Information Centre Initiative, Arctic Council SDWG endorsed Arctic Maritime and Aviation Transportation Infrastructure Initiative, the Arctic Council SAON project, the EU 7th framework program funded PAGE21 Permafrost project and many others.

PHOENIX SATELLITE TELEVISION began to broadcast on 31 March, 1996, with the philosophy of “reducing the distance within the global Chinese community and expressing the voice of Chinese to the world”, and striving to provide Chinese everywhere with high quality Mandarin Chinese television programming. Through twenty years of hard work, Phoenix has developed from being a one-channel station into a multi-channel television broadcaster, with the Phoenix Chinese Channel, the Phoenix InfoNews Channel, the Phoenix Chinese News and Entertainment Channel which broadcasts in Europe, the Phoenix American Channel, the Phoenix Movie Channel and the Phoenix Hong Kong Channel. These six channels currently have an audience in excess of 360 million viewers worldwide. Phoenix has now evolved into an omni-media corporate group, with an internet website (www.ifeng.com), a weekly magazine, an outdoor Mega LED advertising business, and publishing, radio broadcasting and education projects.

The Group’s Chinese Channel, InfoNews Channel, European Channel, American Channel, Movie Channel and Hong Kong Channel are carried on AsiaSat 7, China Sat-6B, EUROBIRD, Telsat-12, Directv, Echostar, G3-C, SATMEX-6, Bell ExpressVU and other broadcasting platforms, covering over 180 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Phoenix Satellite Television Corporation Limited was listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 30 June 2000, and then on 5 December 2008 the Phoenix Corporation transferred to the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

High North News (highnorthnews.com) is an independent, international newspaper covering social, political, and economic issues in the Arctic. The publication’s head office is located in Bodø, Norway. The newspaper has several international correspondents and cooperates with other international news media covering the high north.

High North News is part of the High North Center at Nord University.

Information-analytical agency PortNews is the leading and most popular Russian media resource providing sea and river transport news, as well as a tool of interaction between businesses, government and the media. Every day, around 8,000 readers visit the Russian and English pages of the media agency’s web portal.

According to Google Analytics, the website is popular among the industry professionals worldwide, with the exception of a Norwegian archipelago Svalbard and several countries in central Africa, where we do not have our readers as yet.

To promote your company in the Russian market IAA PortNews is the gate and the best solution. The media agency specialists will prepare your individual PR- and GR-plans and help realize it most successfully.

Besides, experienced personnel of the PortNews marketing department will provide insight of the Russian marine market under individual technical project.

China Global Television Network, or CGTN, is China’s new international media organization. It was launched by the national broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) on December 31, 2016.

By launching CGTN, we want to re-brand our product to the world, to cope with the global trend in media convergence.

CGTN English is the flagship channel. The strategy, “Mobile first”, aims to fulfill the demands of global viewers and users for easier access to content on different platforms.

With an international team of professionals from more than 70 countries and regions, CGTN is an investment in the future of news media.

CGTN is a multi-language, multi-platform media grouping. It consists of six TV channels – including a 24-hour English-language news channel – a video content provider and a digital media division. Our brand new official website is CGTN.com.

Headquartered at the landmark CCTV building in Beijing, CGTN brings together an international professional team, with production centers in Washington and Nairobi, and a European production center on the way.

The main English-language news channel CGTN has taken over from CCTVNEWS, while our other language channels are now CGTN Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian. CGTN Documentary replaced CCTV Documentary English and is China’s first state-level English-language documentary channel to broadcast globally.

CGTN Digital – We also deliver our content across a range of digital platforms. Not only are all television programs broadcast simultaneously online and on mobile, but the website and news app provide original stories from China and around the world, with the support of CGTN’s global team. You can also find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Weibo and WeChat.
With content on our social media platforms ranging from online live video streaming to breaking news and original features, join CGTN Digital in testing the latest technologies.

CCTV Plus – Our video content provider offers news footage to thousands of TV stations and media organizations across the world. Let us help you find what you need.

“The Rare Earth” magazine is a major strategic project aimed at strengthening Russia’s position in the international media space in regards to industry and the REM (rare earth and rare metals) sector. “The Rare Earth”’ is focused on developments in high-tech industries which are of critical importance 
to the following spheres:

– aviation 

– space 

– mechanical engineering 

– shipbuilding 

– the nuclear industry 

– electronics and other areas 

Living Planet is the nation’s main TV nature channel.

Viewers are able to observe Russian nature in all its different forms through the expeditions of the channel’s crew and the best Russian and foreign documentaries.

Living Planet talks about the life of the Far Eastern leopard, the Amur tiger and the fish owl. We show the real work of vets, teach how to survive in the wild whilst treating it with care and actively involve ourselves in public life, compiling annual environmental ratings of domestic businesses.

Living Planet’s mission is to make Russians proud of their country’s nature and to teach them how to better understand its language.

The channel is part of the DTR (VGTRK / Rostelecom) digital package’s informative range. Living Planet boasts an audience of over 14 million viewers.

Official website: www.live-planet.tv

Russia’s largest light-industry holding.

The company specializes in making of high tech textiles, development and manufacturing of clothing, including uniforms, professional and special clothing for business, casual wear and clothing for outdoor activities.

BTK’s own production base includes 13 individual enterprises, located in Russia, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of South Ossetia.

The holding’s workforce exceeds 7.300 employees.

The holding’s production capacity allows for the output of 17 mln pieces of knitwear, up to 5 mln sewn garments and 1 mln pairs of footwear every year. The BTK textile cluster enables annual production of 25 mln meters of synthetic and blended fabrics as well as jersey cloth.

BTK is an innovator in the area of design and development of products, as well as in adoption of cutting-edge approaches to the organizing business processes and production technologies.

www.btcgroup.ru

Russian Post is a federal post operator, is included in the Russian Federation strategic companies list. It includes 42,000 offices across the country and has one of the biggest staff – about 350,000 post workers.

Every year, Russian Post delivers over 2.5 billion letters (of them 1 billion letters are from state authorities) and some 140 million parcels. Russian Post services about 20 million subscribers in Russia by delivering 1 billion copies of print publications per year. The annual volume of transactions processed by Russian Post is 3.5 trillion rubles (pensions, payments and transfers).

PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of approximately $63 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. 

PepsiCo is the largest food and beverage company in Russia*. More than 20 000 employees work at central and regional offices in Russia, as well as at numerous production sites of the company.

PepsiCo is also Russia’s largest industrial processor of potatoes and one of the largest processors of raw milk. The company invests heavily in the implementation of programs aimed at boosting the performance of potatoes and raw milk suppliers.

Acting as a sponsor of the Forum’s cultural program, PepsiCo acts within its basic “Performance with Purpose” principle, supporting the chamber ensemble “Soloists of Moscow” and the All-Russian Youth Symphony Orchestra under direction of Yuri Bashmet.

http://www.pepsico.ru/

*According to the “Expert 600”-2015 ranking of the largest companies by sales volume by the ranking agency “Expert RA”

CJSC “Korenovskiy Milk Processing Factory” is one of the oldest milk processing plants in Krasnodar region. From year to year the factory products wins a gold medals in the nomination “For the best dairy products”, takes top places and has numerous diplomas. Consumers know a trademark “Cow from Korenovka” not only in Russia, but also in the CIS countries and the European Union countries.

The main products of CJSC “Korenovskiy Milk Processing Factory” are:
– Canned milk
– Dairy butter
– Whole – milk products
– Ice cream

Factory policy aims to produce environmentally friendly products because we using only natural raw materials in our production process. Daily plant receives more than 550 tons of raw milk and delivers over 400 tons of end products.

For all the time of activities of CJSC “Korenovskiy Milk Processing Factory”, the top management implements effectively the measures which are aimed at preserving jobs, modernization and diversification of production, the expansion of jobs due to the construction of new work sections and the expansion of production – today the average number of manpower is more than 2020 people.

Production of functional food products to improve quality of life for people living in adverse climatic conditions while at the same time being exposed to specific work environment including that of the Arctic regions.

Email: gelios444@mail.ru

tel.: +7 (911) 572-68-32

PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of approximately $63 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. 

PepsiCo is the largest food and beverage company in Russia*. More than 20 000 employees work at central and regional offices in Russia, as well as at numerous production sites of the company.

PepsiCo is also Russia’s largest industrial processor of potatoes and one of the largest processors of raw milk. The company invests heavily in the implementation of programs aimed at boosting the performance of potatoes and raw milk suppliers.

Acting as a sponsor of the Forum’s cultural program, PepsiCo acts within its basic “Performance with Purpose” principle, supporting the chamber ensemble “Soloists of Moscow” and the All-Russian Youth Symphony Orchestra under direction of Yuri Bashmet.

http://www.pepsico.ru/

*According to the “Expert 600”-2015 ranking of the largest companies by sales volume by the ranking agency “Expert RA”