“Can’t they sign agreements in other places?”
For St. Petersburg, SPIEF always becomes a stress test: it causes traffic jams, buses are overcrowded, mobile Internet and city Wi-Fi fail, and this time, on top of everything else, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked an oil terminal and a corvette in Kronstadt with drones on the very first day. The organizers expected that more than 20 thousand people from 100 countries would come to the forum in 2026.
