Russian exporters share success stories: Export Day at the RUSSIA EXPO

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On May 10, the Exposition launched the Export Day dedicated to the "International Cooperation and Export" national project. The program of events was opened by a plenary session in the format of a master lecture "Future Opportunities: International Cooperation and Export", dedicated to the role of non-resource non-energy exports in the Russian economy, success stories of our companies and the image of the future — development goals, new export geography and the updated national project.

The lecture participants were welcomed by Vasily Osmakov, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, and Veronika Nikishina, General Director of the Russian Export Center.

Vladimir Nikolaev, General Producer of Animation Studio Voronezh, Yuri Saprygin, CEO of medical equipment supplier Liston, Sergei Ivanov, Executive Director of EFCO Group, Evgeny Maslov, Chief Designer of Transmashholding, and Kirill Komarov, Deputy Director General of Rosatom, shared their companies' export experience in different areas. Alexander Kareevsky, an economic observer and anchor of the Rossiya 24 TV channel, moderated the event.

"Export is a very important and fundamental topic for the country's development. Its importance is directly conditioned by Russia's course to achieve technological sovereignty, which cannot be ensured without our subjectivity on the map of foreign economic relations. Exports create large markets and the scale effect necessary for the development of new breakthrough technologies. This is what our companies are already doing in Africa, and what is to be done in Asia and Latin America. The renewed "International Cooperation and Export" national project is designed to help them achieve this," said Vasily Osmakov.

"I would like to once again draw attention to the fact that over the past few decades Russia has indeed turned from a country with a state monopoly and with a very narrow line of export opportunities into a country that is an exporter of a great number of industries. And export for our country, for any country, means economic prosperity. And export for every company that is engaged in it is the well-being of that company. That is why the state currently creates opportunities for self-realization of everyone who, having competences, wants to invest these competences into creation of a product that will be competitive on foreign markets, as well as into development of foreign economic skills, logistics competences and financial competences that will help this product to be successful on the markets," Veronika Nikishina emphasized.

Sergei Ivanov, Executive Director of EFCO, offered an unexpected interpretation of export as a source of the team's vitality: "A possible reason for this phenomenon is the special spatial thinking of the Russian man, which in its time became the source of both Siberian exploration and Russian cosmism. Today it is continued in the fact that export victories of domestic producers are always perceived positively, even by competitors. And EFCO's practice shows that export works perfectly well as an element of social "gluing" within the company and within the industry".

In addition, he voiced new approaches to understanding capitalism, which he presented this year at the impact summit in African Rwanda and which gave rise to a new African project of the company to build several factories and train personnel on the basis of the Academy of African Leadership.

The Export Day was organized by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and the Russian Export Center (VEB.RF Group).