10 Jun 2021 - 9:28
Henk J Hoogendoorn, Managing Director of Financial Sector Office, QFC, with an official during SPIEF.
The Peninsula
Doha: Represented by a high-level delegation at the 24th edition of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) 2021, signed six Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and one Letter of Intent with leading organisations from Russia’s investment, technology, and innovation ecosystem, aimed at promoting investment in Qatar’s wider business landscape.
The diverse range of MoUs, inked during SPIEF 2021, focus on strengthening the long-term strategic business and investment exchange between Qatar and Russia. The agreements were signed with Moscow Innovation Cluster Fund, Internet Initiatives Development Fund, QR Sports, Business Russia, Qatar Russia Investment and Trade Advisory, Roscongress Foundation, and a Letter of Intent with Skolkovo Foundation.
Members of the political network built by Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny in Russia have pledged to continue their efforts to campaign for change and expose corruption in the upper echelons of power after a Moscow court declared their movement "extremist."
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MOSCOW At the high-profile St. Petersburg International Economic Forum earlier this month, the head of Moscow State University s Center for the National Intellectual Reserve, Katerina Tikhonova, gave a six-minute speech by video link about using breakthrough technologies to boost investment.
On the sidelines of the same event, genetics researcher Maria Vorontsova gave a 13-minute interview on rare diseases that was broadcast on national television:
Both events would have slipped by unremarked in the crowded program of the three-day forum, except for the fact that the two women are reported to be the daughters of authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Qatari Businesswomen Association (QBWA) participated in the 24th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2021) in St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of the delegation from Qatar which was the guest country of the forum.