Partners

MEC is a development institute established by the Government of Moscow in 2017 to provide financial and non–financial support measures to entrepreneurs of the City in order to promote the products of the Capital's manufacturers and service providers in foreign markets.

The Moscow Expert Center is actively working to increase the number of exporters in the City, provides assistance in finding foreign partners, and promotes products and services of Moscow companies in the markets of friendly countries.

The MEC supports the capital's entrepreneurs in three key areas:

• Education and preparation of companies for interaction with foreign customers

• Promotion and sales of products abroad

• Financial support measures

They include more than 30 services. Among the most popular are: 

-the organization of participation of Moscow companies in business missions and specialized foreign exhibitions;

-co-financing of acceleration and training programs;
 -placement on international marketplaces, etc.

FESCO Transportation Group (an enterprise managed by State Corporation Rosatom) is one of the largest transport and logistics companies in Russia with assets in the field of port, railway and integrated logistics business, which allow the Group to carry out door–to-door delivery of goods and to control all stages of the intermodal chain.

FESCO owns Commercial Port of Vladivostok, intermodal operator FESCO Integrated Transport, operator of refrigerated containers Dalreftrans as well as companies Transgarant and FESCO Trans. The Group operates terminal complexes in Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk, Tomsk and Vladivostok.

FESCO is:

• container fleet exceeding 170 thousand TEU;
• more than 11 thousand fitting platforms;
• more than 30 transport vessels that carry out transportations mainly on own sea lines;
• a fleet of over 180 tractors.

The mission of FESCO is to create the best logistics solutions for customers of the company in Russia and Eurasia. Main values of the company are:

• focus on the customer;
• focus on the overall result;
• professionalism and responsibility.

VTB Bank is a systemically important Russian bank, one of the leaders in the financial services market. The bank works with all categories of clients: large, medium and small businesses, individual entrepreneurs, self-employed and retail segment.

VTB Bank's mission is to strive to help people implement their plans by creating the best financial solutions.

One of the goals of the Bank's team is to promote the sustainable development of society. VTB supports socially significant areas and takes care of the environment, helping to create a prosperous and harmonious society.

Russian Agricultural Bank (RusAg, Bank) is the core bank of the national credit and financial system for servicing agribusiness in Russia. Established in 2000, the Bank today is the leader in domestic agribusiness financing. It is among the top-tier and most stable financial institutions in the country in terms of assets and capital, as well as one of the leaders in the reliability rating of the largest Russian banks.

Today, RusAg is an universal commercial bank providing all types of banking services and occupying a leading position in financing the agro–industrial complex of Russia.

Bank sent 1.7 trillion rubles to the agro-industrial complex in 2023, and over 15 trillion rubles over the entire period of operation.

Russian Agricultural Bank ranks 2nd in the country in terms of the number of branches. Its branch network includes more than 1300 branches in almost all regions of the Russian Federation. There is at least 1 RusAg office for every 100 km.

The Bank’s mission is to achieve synergy between rural areas and megalopolises so that they enrich each other.

The most important task is to support the export of agricultural products.

In 2023, the Russian Agricultural Bank provided agricultural exporters with almost 600 billion rubles.

Alfa-Bank is the largest universal private bank in Russia. For more than 30 years, it has held leading positions in all segments of the banking business. According to the results of 7 months of 2024, in accordance to the accounting (financial) statements under RAS, Alfa-Bank's net profit amounted to RUB 100.3 billion. The customer base is more than 1.8 million corporate clients and 33.8 million individuals as of July. Alfa-Bank is developing according to the Phygital model, combining digital innovations with an effective network of physical presence, which has more than 700 offices in Moscow and more than 2500 cities with delivery.

Alfa-Bank has been holding leading positions in the field of foreign economic activity for many years; and for the fourth time the Bank took the first place as the absolute leader in the digitalization of foreign economic activity in the Markswebb rating. We constantly help clients to develop and solve important tasks. Business missions for importers and exporters from different countries, dedicated to industry topics, help to find optimal solutions, get acquainted with the best practices and find exactly those partners who are interesting to a particular business.

“CCG” JSC operates in the market of financial services related to foreign economic activity and is a universal customs guarantor.

The main “CCG” JSC’s operation are to guarantee payment of customs duties, taxes and penalties to the customs authorities of the EAEU’s Member States and to implement and use relevant IT systems.

“CCG” JSC is the owner and developer of the software and hardware complex "Customs Gateway" version 2.0 (SHC), certificate of state registration of the computer program No. 2016612182.

The package is used to automate the interaction of foreign trade participants with the automated information system of customs authorities. Main functions: registration of transportation data, automatic calculation of the required amount to ensure customs transit, registration of an addendum to the guarantee agreement as part of the customs transit procedure, receipt of an addendum number and tracking the status of transportation; registration of preliminary information (PI) about the upcoming transportation, receipt of the PI number and barcode, electronic declaration of goods, data exchange with the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation via secure communication lines.

The high availability (99.7%) of the SHC ensures continuous uninterrupted interaction of stakeholders with the information systems of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation.

“CCG” JSC focuses on an individual approach to customer needs and optimization of technological processes, which ultimately gives customers participating in foreign economic activity an additional effect in the form of reducing transaction costs.

State Atomic Energy Corporation «Rosatom» (ROSATOM) is a multi-industry holding company which comprises assets in power engineering, machine building, and construction. Its strategy is to develop low-carbon generation, including wind power. ROSATOM is the national leader in power generation (accounting for about 20% of the country's total output) and ranks first globally in terms of the size of its portfolio of orders for the construction of NPPs (39 power units, including 6 SMR units, in 10 countries).

ROSATOM is the only company in the world that has all technologies of the nuclear fuel cycle, from the extraction of uranium to the back end of the life cycle of nuclear facilities. Its field of activities also includes production of innovative non-nuclear products, nuclear medicine, digitalization and software development, logistics and development of the Northern Sea Route.

The mission of ROSATOM's activities is that the achievements of nuclear science and high modern technologies should serve for the benefit of people.

Common corporate values are:

• "One step ahead";

• "Responsibility for the result";

• "Efficiency";

• "United Team";

• "Respect";

• "Security".

ROSATOM includes over 450 enterprises employing a total of more than 350,000 people.

JSC Russian Railways is one of the largest transport companies in the world, one of the largest enterprises in Russia.

The railway complex has a special strategic importance for Russia. It acts as a link in the unified economic system, ensures stable operation of industrial enterprises, timely delivery of vital goods to the most remote corners of the country, and is also the most affordable transport for millions of citizens.

The company has:

• high financial ratings;
• qualified specialists in all the rail business spheres;
• extensive scientific and technological basis;
• project and construction facilities;
• experience in international cooperation.

100% of the stock of the company operating the railways network as long as 85,6 thousand kilometers belongs to the Russian Federation.

Russian Railways performs a quarter of the passenger turnover of the entire transport system of Russia and more than 46% of the cargo turnover (including pipeline transport).

Russian Railways is currently implementing the following projects:

• development of BAM and Transsib;
• development of approaches to the ports of the Northwestern and Azov-Black Sea basins;
• development of the Central Transport Hub;
• strengthening the railway infrastructure on the Northern and Sverdlovsk Railways to allow additional freight traffic to pass within the framework of the project to create a Northern latitudinal passage, etc.

The company’s mission is to meet the market demand for transportation services, increase efficiency and quality of services.

PJSC Severstal is a vertically integrated mining and metallurgical company that creates new products and integrated solutions from steel together with customers and partners. The company's production assets are concentrated in Russia. The key enterprise of the company is Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant (Vologda region). The company's shares are traded on the Moscow Stock Exchange (ticker "CHMF"). In 2023, the company produced 11.3 million tons of steel and 11.3 million tons of cast iron. The company employs more than 46,000 employees.

The company's key plans for 2024:

● The start of construction of a complex for the production of iron ore pellets worth about 97 billion rubles.

● Investments in environmental protection, improvement of safety systems and occupational safety will amount to more than 7 billion rubles.

● The Company will increase staff costs to 90.1 billion rubles, primarily for wage increases and measures of a comprehensive employee support program in all regions of its presence.

● The company's social investments will amount to 5 billion rubles, which will be directed, among other things, to the Project of integrated development of Cherepovets – the main territory of the company's presence.

The company's mission is to be leader in creation. Severstal's strategy is to create maximum added value for customers and partners, combined with caring for the company's employees and minimizing the negative impact on the environment. Severstal's strategic priorities include the highest quality of customer service, maintaining industry leadership in terms of production costs and realizing new opportunities. The implementation of these priorities is based on Severstal's advanced corporate culture.

The company offers a wide range of products, focusing on new high-tech products and services that meet the current and future needs of our customers. The company's key consumer industries are construction, energy and mechanical engineering. Severstal has actively joined the import substitution program and successfully supplies customers with new types of products and solutions.

RG Media is a media holding with a 30-year history, providing timely and reliable information about the most significant events of federal, regional and international scale 24/7. The flagship product is the daily print edition Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the leader in terms of federal audience among daily socio-political newspapers (more than 1 million readers daily (Mediascope, December 2023 - April 2024, 0+).

MIC «Izvestia» is the first private multimedia information center in Russia. It includes the news internet portal IZ.RU, «Izvestia» TV channel (IZ.RU), «Izvestia» newspaper, «Business Petersburg» newspaper, news services of «REN TV» and «Channel Five», as well as «Channel 78». MIC «Izvestia» is a producer and distributor of news content in any format for TV, print, Internet, and radio. The monthly audience of news internet resources exceeds 100 million people, and the TV audience is over 80 million people. «MIC Izvestia» consistently ranks in the top-5 online news resources according to Liveinternet.

Interfax is a major non-governmental news agency in Russia. The agency was established in 1989. It specializes in providing current business news with a focus on information that allows making timely investment decisions in the financial market. The agency's subscribers include major banks, brokers, leading Russian and foreign media, government agencies.

RT is an international TV network and news channels in English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, as well as a documentary channel of the same name in Russian and English. The network includes online portals in seven languages, as well as the global multimedia news agency RUPTLY, offering exclusive materials to TV channels around the world.

RT resources cover news that did not make it to the pages and screens of the world media, and offer an alternative view of the most significant political, economic and social events in the modern world.

The media group unites the federal TV channel Zvezda, Radio Zvezda of the same name, as well as information portals tvzvezda.ru and radiozvezda.ru , the online version of the newspaper "Weekly "Zvezda", the thematic TV channel "Zvezda Plus" and the film studio "Glavkino".

The Zvezda TV channel broadcasts throughout the Russian Federation. On the air – news, analytics, premieres of documentary and original programs, classics of Russian cinema and entertainment shows. The potential monthly audience is more than 100 million people.

On the radio, historical and educational programs tell about history, culture, achievements of science and technology, read fragments from Russian and world literary classics. The program is aimed at an educated, self-developing audience.

The main focus of the online publication Zvezdaweekly.ru It is a geopolitical and military-political analysis of current events and global problems taking place in the country and the world.

The thematic TV channel Zvezda Plus implements premiere screenings, exclusive filming and live broadcasts of selected cycles and programs created by the Zvezda TV company team.