Economic forum "Siberian Davos" disrupted

The economic forum "Siberian Davos" was disrupted in Altai. about the details The head of the regional branch of Transparency International Stanislav Andreichuk tells on Facebook. According to him, at first the organizers were denied permission to hold the forum in a hotel in the Altai Territory: “Already after paying the lease agreement, the owner of the hotel where the participants were supposed to live and hold meetings, said that he could not host the conference for technical reasons - the pipes allegedly thawed and there were flooded two floors. At the same time, the temperature in previous days did not fall below zero degrees, and the hotel continued to offer accommodation to “ordinary” tourists.” In another hotel, on the territory of the Republic of Altai, the organizers were informed on the night of February 11 that they were being evicted in the morning, and the hotel was closing due to the introduction of quarantine due to influenza throughout the region.

At the same time, while the organizing committee was looking for a hotel, their minibus was stopped several times by traffic police officers, and the driver was examined. “We were surprised to learn that the traffic police of the Altai Territory is conducting three different operations on the roads these days:“ Fake ”,“ Debtor ”and“ Clean Hands ”,” Andreychuk writes. According to him, “the car of the organizing committee was under constant surveillance - it was always accompanied by cars in which sat two young men of sporty appearance. These cars drove up with the bus to all the camp sites where the organizing committee stopped.

Even before the eviction, according to Andreichuk, “the hotel manager was bombarded with calls demanding to refuse accommodation to the guests. The callers introduced themselves as employees of the district and republican administrations, and employees of law enforcement agencies.

The Siberian Davos Forum in 2016 was supposed to celebrate its 15th anniversary. This time, a number of well-known Russian and European economists, as well as representatives of diplomatic missions, were invited to the event.