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What to watch and listen to the PMEF, the continuation of the conflict in Natura Siberica and the "Scooter" in the United States
The most important and interesting at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum
Tomorrow is the first day of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum: Russian (and foreign-but there will be very few of them) officials and businessmen will meet to discuss business prospects during and after the pandemic, the ways of leaving the Russian economy from stagnation and much more. In the 80-page forum program -as always a lot of optional. On the eve of the opening, we chose the most interesting sessions for the subscribers of The Bell, which should go or see the broadcast.
June 3
Home Economic Session
The Ministers of the Economic Bloc, the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina and the assistant to the President Maxim Oreshkin discuss “how to help the Russian economy adapt to the new normality” and “whether it can take advantage of the opened opportunities for growth”.
In 2019, a similar session with the same optimistic name quickly moved to a bitter dispute about whether the growth of Russian GDP would crawl to 1%. The head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, claimed that no, the rest did not particularly argue with this. At the end of the year, Rosstat won - at first he estimated the economic growth of 1.3%, and after recalculation - at 2%.
This year, the session will not only be Kudrin, but also the main responsible for the growth of the economy in the government andthe main newsmaker -the First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov. This means that we will not see an interesting dispute about whether it is worth stimulating investments by introducing taxes for those who pay a lot of dividends or simply slaughter the state. However, it is unlikely that participants will be able to get around the initiatives of Belousov even in his absence.
"Russian economy: from anti -crisis agenda to sustainable development"
June 3, 9: 00–10: 15, conference room D1.
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Gref and Kiriyenko about the state with a human face
The meeting of the technocrats circle on the first day of the forum-German Gref, the first deputy head of the presidential administration Sergey Kiriyenko and the nominees Mikhail Mishustin-Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko and the head of the Federal Tax Service Daniil Egorov organize a discussion about how the state should borrow approaches to the business and "change the culture of the army of officials." To the question posed: “The human face for the authorities: where to get managers of the new formation”, apparently, will answer Sergey Kiriyenko, who has been preparing new governors for several years, including forcing them to jump with parachute and lay down under the BTR.
June 3, 11:00, pavilion G, conference room G7
Kudrin and post -shoe business
Aleksey Kudrin (isn't it after the forecasts about 1% growth?) This year does not go to the main economic session, but instead participates in discussion with a futuristic coloring and an invited star in the person of the American economist Daron Ajemoglu, the author of the famous book “Why are some rich countries and other poor ones” (Why Nations Fail). The declared topic is that the business should put at the forefront in the post -shift time. But it can be assumed that the discussion is unlikely to do without the transition to the topic of inequality - one of the beloved topics and Adjemoglu, and, recently, Kudrin, who is developing a poverty program for the government.
Occama Razor: What is important for business in the post -shift time?
June 3, 15:00, Congress Center, conference hall B3
Ask about new taxes
The session under one of the most tempting names is “the tax system of Russia: the image of the future. Responding to challenges. " Vladimir Putin, in a message to the Federal Assembly, intrigued the business, promising at the end of 2021 the “Donastation of the Tax System”. With the development of events, it turned out that he most likely had in mind to punish the progressive tax of businessmen who did not want to invest a profit in Russia. But is it just talking about this? How exactly from metallurgists are going to (and are they going to) to pick up 100 billion rubles, which Andrei Belousov spoke of? And only do metallurgists? All these questions can be tried to ask the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov and the head of the Federal Tax Service Daniil Egorov.
“The tax system of Russia: the image of the future. Responding to challenges. "
June 3, 15:00, pavilion G, conference room G1
Officials and brokers about a private investment boom
Without any exaggeration, the main theme of the past year is the explosive increase in the number of retail investors in the stock market. The Central Bank is waiting for 10 million investors-philosophers on the exchange by the end of the year and forced prohibitions for “physicists” for trading speculative instruments. This year, the main newsmakers of the world financial market were sofa investors with Reddit, who declared the war hedge funds, and Ilon Musk, with the help of Twitter, manipulating billions of everything that comes by the arm. At the session about the stock market, they promise to discuss all this. Elvira Nabiullina will not be, but the composition is not bad - the head of the Russian Goldman Sachs Timothy Tolkinton, the head of the Moscow Bill, Yuri Denisov and the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance, are declared in the session, and the moderator is the senior partner of Baring Vostok Elena Ivashentseva.
"New era of stock markets: risks and opportunities"
June 3, 15:00, pavilion f, conference room F3
Gref and foreign stars about the world after Covid
The main futuristic session and at the same time, probably, the most starry on the forum - German Gref and Maxim Oreshkin at the Sberbank panel session are discussed by Megatrendas and “Academic Architecture of the Post -Kovidy World” with the legendary financier, founder of the Bridgewater Foundation Ray Dalio, Evolutionary Psychologist Stephen Pinker, political scientist Farid Zakaria.
"Architecture of the post -shoe world: technology, economics, society"
June 3, 16:00, Congress Center, Congress Hall
And also:
- The Bell editor -in -chief Irina Malkova modrates the session with the heads of Yandex, Ozon and Skyeng and the ministers of labor and communications on the rejection of the global economy.
- Nabiullina and Yandex Managing Director Tigran Khudardyan are discussing the ecosystems, which the Central Bank was going to regulate hard.
- Those who are interested in medical, genetic and neurotechnologies will have to choose: a session with Mark Kurzer and Alexei Repict on the health care of the future or a session about connecting the brain to a computer with venture investors and scientists.
- The session of the e-commerce with the owner of Wildberries Tatyana Bakalchuk and the general director of Ozon Alexander Shulgin.
June 4
Disputes about the economy of Gref
Herman Gref has not been involved in the main economic session for several years on the first day, and the next day it arranges an alternative to Sberbank’s business breakfast. The composition is usually no worse, but it happens better. Last time, Anton Siluanov, who fell upon entrepreneurs for unwillingness to invest in Russia, was the star of breakfast. Since we know, this problem for the government has become only more relevant - we will wait for Andrei Belousov’s breakfast.
"Russian economy: rebooting the modernization strategy"
June 4, 8:30, Congress Center, Sberic Hall
Putin about investment in Russia
Vladimir Putin traditionally performs at the forum on Friday in the afternoon, the topic has been declared traditional-"socio-economic development and investment attractiveness of Russia." Putin's performances for PMEF are traditionally not the brightest and not the most specific. And this time, contrary to the usual, there will be not a single foreign leader with him at the plenary meeting (in the previous forum it was, for example, Xi Jinping). But Putin, perhaps, will say something about the upcoming meeting with Joe Biden.
June 4, 14:00, Congress Center, Congress Hall
Ginzburg and the head of the WHO about vaccines
The main "covid" session of the forum is about preparing for future pandemias and creating new vaccines. Interesting primarily the composition of the participants - the head of the institute. Gamaley, where the “satellite” was developed by Alexander Ginzburg, the main enthusiast of the capture of the world “satellite”, the head of the RDPI Kirill Dmitriev, producers of the vaccine and officials. Special Guest is the head of the Theodor Azhkhan Goebreesus: we hope someone will ask him the question when WHO will officially register the “satellite V”, which will give us hopes for entering the European Union on the “Covid passport”.
The fight against infections: the risks of the future
June 4, 12:00, congress center, conference hall D4
And also:
- It will be possible to listen to the performance of the head of the Innopractics Foundation and the alleged daughter of Vladimir Putin Katerina Tikhonova at a session with an unobvious theme “Consideration of arbitration disputes at the Brix site”.
- Discussion of the problems of globalization with its main victim - the head of UC Rusal Oleg Deripaska and the head of VTB Andrei Kostin.
- Perhaps the most unexpected summer of 2021 is the session: rector Rash Ruben Yenikolopov, Alexey Kudrin and political scientist Ekaterina Shulman discuss the openness of the state in Russia.
What am I to me?
Despite the ongoing pandemic and the almost complete absence of foreign guests, there will be something interesting to the PMEF this year-like parties, for which a significant part of the guests travel to the forum. This year, many of them (and even the Mikhail Prokhorov party) were canceled due to covid restrictions-but not all. A complete list, if it is not yet saved in your bookmarks, you can see here .
EDUCATION
Hunting ideas
Less than a week remained before the start of the educational course “Open Innovation: The Driving Force of Modern Companies” from In School .
On the course you will find out what open innovations are and why they are needed. Form a clear idea of how to work effectively with information, share your research and redistribute resources within the company. And also consider the successful cases of the largest market players and work in groups to create your breakthrough solutions and new partnerships.
To learn more about open innovations and how they change the business models of companies, you can from our interview with the teacher of the course Solomon Darwin, a professor at the University of California Berkeley. Classes will be held on June 8, 10 and 15. You can familiarize yourself with the program and register here .
MONEY
Power capture or family drama
In one of the largest Russian cosmetic companies, Natura Siberica continues corporate-family conflict. After the death of the founder of the company Andrei Trubnikov, his relatives could not agree who would manage the business, while the hereditary case is being considered, the Bell found out earlier. As a result, the operational control received a confidential manager of the shares of Trubnikov. But with him, different groups of Trubnikov’s heirs began to sue. In parallel, the company is attacked in the courts of structures, which at least in the past were close to Oleg Deripaska. We learned what the essence of the dispute between the heirs with the manager is and why the children and the former wife of the businessman consider him a raider (the manager himself evaluates his role completely differently).
"Scooter" will start in the USA
The service of delivery of products, household goods and cosmetics “Scooter”, part of the Sberbian joint venture and Mail.ru Group, enters the American market, The Bell found out. Exit terms - from several months to a year. For the American market, its brand will be invented and a separate team is hired on the spot, the idea and partially technologies will be moved, our sources say. And by the way, it looks like a trend. Several services for the express delivery of products founded by Russians are already working on the American market. In New York-Fridge No More, which in 2020 was launched by one of the Samokat investors Pavel Danilov and CoB co-founder Anton Gladkoborodov. And on the east coast of the United States - the Food Rocket service Vitaly Alexandrov.
INTERVIEW
"Rumors about the divorce" Sber "and Mail.Ru do not concern us"
Unlike thousands of other businesses in Russia, Delivery Club did not lose on the pandemic, but acquired: according to the results of 2020, the revenue of the delivery service reached 10 billion rubles, which is 2.3 times more than in the “well-like” 2019. But a loss also grew, and scandals with a strike of couriers and rumors about the “divorce” of Sberus and Mail.ru Group forced to think about the cloudlessness of the future company. In an interview with The Bell, the General Director of Delivery Club Guvanch Donmes told how the service coped with a multiply increased stream of orders in the pandemic and accusations of a inhumanly high commission, which the company thinks about disputes of shareholders and prospects of IPO and why the Russians never smile.
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PRACTICE
Deglijacking the whole country
So far, in Russia, the lack of gas in more than a dozen regions and individual million-taken cities remains an urgent problem, the US is undergoing a reverse process in the USA. In 2019, the University Berkeley California became the first city in the country where gas connection in new houses was legally prohibited - as it was easy to guess, for environmental considerations of reducing consumption of fossil fuel. Following him, similar prohibitions accepted or proposed the city authorities of San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and New York. The state authorities, preoccupied with the high cost of gas rejection, adopt laws prohibiting the introduction of such prohibitions - this has already been done by Texas, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahom, Tennessee and Louisiana. Opponents of prohibitions indicate the non -obstruction of the environmental benefit of replacing gas with electricity. WSJ talks about the prospects of the parties in this battle.
How to convince the boss to leave you on the remote
This week we already talked about the problems of bosses with employees who are quitting due to unwillingness to leave the remotes. Now Businessweek, on the contrary, gives advice to the employees who are accustomed to the remotes who are forced to go to the office. The manual can try to convince that you will work more efficiently on a hybrid schedule - and for this you need to offer a specific plan: how you will make your planning more effective by refusing travel to work, how you will keep the management of your work and receive feedback from it.