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16.12.2015 :: Final Recommendations to XIV All-Russian Forum
Final version of recommendations about the actions of XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space" is published on the Forum’s site in the section Materials. 
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23.11.2015 :: Shorthand record of an Expert Discussion on the theme "Approaches to Coordination of Socio-Economic and Territorial Planning in St. Petersburg"
Shorthand record of an Expert Discussion on the theme "Approaches to Coordination of Socio-Economic and Territorial Planning in St. Petersburg", that was held at the Forum on October 19, 2015, placed on the Forum's site, section "materials", and on the action page P10d.
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16.11.2015 :: Summary Report on XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: the Space for Choice and Choice of Space"
Summary Report on XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: the Space for Choice and Choice of Space", which took place at October 19-20, 2015 in St. Petersburg is on the Forum's site. Report includes overview of the two-day Forum's program, information about participants and competitions "Visualization Strategy" and "Cities for People", and also about the media. http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/16.html.
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10.11.2015 :: Speaker Presentations and Photos from past Events placed on the Forum's Site
Speaker presentations placed on the Forum's site, section "materials", which are allowed to publication. Moreover, photos from past events and awards are placed on the section "photo report". 
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02.11.2015 :: Final Stage of the Forum's Recommendations Establishment
There is a final stage of the Forum’s recommendations establishment. Forum participants can send applications to recommendations untill November 6. 
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20.10.2015 :: Second Day of the Forum has Started
The Second day of the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space" is opened by the second plenary session "The Law on Strategic Planning and Budget Code: Directions of Synchonization". Moderator is Alexey Kudrin, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University. 
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20.10.2015 :: Winners of the Contest "Visualization Strategy" are Chosen
Winners of the contest "Visualization Strategy" become St. Petersburg (Category 1: symbol (visual image) of the strategy) and Tatarstan Republic (Category 2: brief visual presentation of the core content of the strategy).  Diplomas of the contest finalists received Novoshahtinsk, Krasnodar, Surgut Photo-report      
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20.10.2015 :: Press Points of the Forum Speakers
Igor Albin, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg and Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development spoke with journalists before the official opening of the second day of the Forum. There were also press points with Alexey Kudrin, Ex-minister, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University and Alexey Lavrov, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.   
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20.10.2015 :: On October, 20 Rustam Minnikhanov presented Gratitudes to Irina Karelina and Boris Zhikharevich
On October, 20 during the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: the Space for Choice and Choice of Space" development managers of Strategy of socio-economic development of Tatarstan Republic up to 2030 - Irina Karelina, Director General of ICSER Leontief Centre, and Boris Zhikharevich, Director of Resource Centre on Strategic Planning under Leontief Centre were awarded gratitudes by Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Tatarstan Republic.  Photo Report  
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19.10.2015 :: Forum's Opening
The first day of the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: the space for choice and choice of space" was opened under the drumbeat. Forum brought together more than 1,300 participants from 54 regions of the Russian Federation and 18 countries. Speakers and guests of the first plenary session on the theme "Federal Law №172: building a system of strategic planning" were welcomed by the perfomance of the musical group Drum Time. Forum is held on October 19-20 in St. Petersburg at the Hotel Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya.  
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19.10.2015 :: Signing of the Memorandum in Terms of Reference between Russian and French Experts
Within the Forum there was signing of the Memorandum in terms of reference of Russian and French experts. It was signed by Ariane Delilez, Director of the French Federation of Landscape Architects and Mikhail Fedorov, Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Ecology Department, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Academician of RAS.
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19.10.2015 :: Presentation of the Integral Rating of the Hundred Largest Cities in Russia
In the Forum press centre at 14.30 there will be presentation of the integral rating of the hundred largest cities in Russia, prepared by Institute of Spatial Planning "Urbanika".     
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19.10.2015 :: Francesco Fresa, The Best Italian Architect in 2013, Opened the Program of the Forum's Green Day
Francesco Fresa, The Best Italian Architect in 2013, opened the program of the Forum’s Green Day within the round table "Tools and Strategies for the Transition to "Green Economy".
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19.10.2015 :: Surgut, Tyumen and Krasnodar Headed Integral Rating of Russian Cities
Anton Finogenov, General Director of Institute of Spatial Planning "Urbanika", presented new integrated rating of the hundred largest cities in Russia at the Forum of strategic planning. Surgut, Tyumen and Krasnodar are at the rating top. Top 10 places in 2015:   1. Surgut 2. Krasnodar 3. Tyumen 4. Ufa 5. Sochi 6. Yekaterinburg 7. Stavropol 8. Nizhnevartovsk 9. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 10. Moscow   The main criteria were housing, congestion of the transport system, availability of modern formats consumption, crime level, possibility of acquiring property, level of expenditure on housing, purchasing power and many others. Rating included cities with a population over 173,000 people. Rating based on official data of Rosstat, major consulting and real estate agencies and research institutes.
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19.10.2015 :: Results of the Photo Contest "Cities for People" are Summed up
By the end of the first day of the Forum organizers summed up the photo contest "Cities for People". All works of the participants reflected the real results to improve the quality of life of citizens and the urban environment. Winners that were elected by Internet voting, became Omsk, Pskov and Yuntolovo municipality (St. Petersburg). Information can be found on the Forum's site: http://forumstrategov.ru/eng/vote.html   
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17.10.2015 :: Press Service published the Draft Schedule of the Press Points of the Speakers of XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space"
Press Service published the Draft Schedule of the Press Points of the Speakers of XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space" Press Points Plan  
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15.10.2015 :: Approaches to Coordination of Socio-Economic and Spatial Planning will discuss in St. Petersburg
Approaches to coordination of socio-economic and spatial planning will discuss in St. Petersburg. Press Point
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14.10.2015 :: Accepting Applications for Participation in the Contest "Visualization Strategy" is Completed
Contest is held in two categories: symbol of the strategy (visual image) and a brief visual presentation of the main content. Materials submitted to the contest are available on the Forum website (http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/224.html, http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/225.html). Definition of the winner in each category takes place on October 19 at the first day of the Forum. Each participant of the Forum will get a card in order to vote  in two categories of the contest. Materials submitted to the contest will be placed on a stand in the lobby of the Forum where will be also installed the ballot box. Voting ends at October 19, 17-30. After that votes will be counted, where invited contest participants or their representatives. 
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09.10.2015 :: Photo Contest “Cities for People”
Improving citizen’s quality of life and urban environment – are strategic priorities of worldwide urban development. How to make a modern city convenient, open, environmentally friendly and attractive to live in?    Theme of the photo contest “Cities for People” within the XIV All-Russian Forum of Strategic Planning continues to search for solutions and answers to actual questions, first raised by Jan Gehl, famous Danish urbanist, at the Forum 2013.   Details...
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08.10.2015 :: Alexey Ulyukaev, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, will take part at the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space".
According to the press centre of Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Alexey Ulyukayev will make business trip to Saint-Petersburg on October 20, 2015, where he plans to take part in the plenary session of  XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space"(http://economy.gov.ru/minec/press/announcements/20151008).   Within the second day of the forum on October 20, 2015 it is planned a plenary session on the theme "The Law on Strategic Planning and Budget Code: Directions of Synchronization" which will include discussion of the leading Russian experts on the issues of implementation of the Federal Law №173 in terms of cooperation expenditure budget with long-term strategic goals and objectives through federal programms, synchronization of approaches, documents and practices of social-economic and budget planning, solving of the most topical problems related to budget planning.  
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07.10.2015 :: Program of Eight-hour Training Course "Actual Technologies of Strategic Planning" (October 21, 2015, 10-00 – 19-00) is Published
Representatives of municipal and regional authorities, who paid for participation in the Forum, will be free to pass an eight-hour training course "Actual technologies of strategic planning" (October 21, 2015, 10-00 – 19-00). Training course is aimed at experts of municipal and regional authorities, who need basic knowledge for effective strategic planning process taking into account requirements of 172-FL "On the strategic planning in the Russian Federation". The course is based on long-term practical experience of two leading Russian companies - consultants at territorial strategic planning: Leontief Centre and AV Group. Seminar is a condensed version of the 20-hour course, which holds by order of subjects of the Russian Federation in relation to a particular development. Seats are limited. Applications can be accepted until the 15th of October. In details: http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/215.html 
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07.10.2015 :: Anatoly Aksakov and Igor Albin confirmed their Participation at the Second Day of XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space"
Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship, and Igor Albin, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, will be the speakers at the second plenary session "The Law on Strategic Planning and Budget Code: Directions of Synchronization", which is held on October 20, 9:30. The main topic of the meeting will be the synchronization of approaches, documents and practices of socio-economic and budget planning, arising problems and their solutions.
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07.10.2015 :: Round Table "International Cooperation for Regional Development"
The annual round table International Cooperation for Regional Development will be held during the first day of the Forum, on October 19 at 12:00. It will focus on major challenges and share the best solutions of regional development, based on the CIS and foreign countries experience; increase the international network with the help of experts, scientists, authorities from United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Council of Europe, OECD, AEBR and other organisations. Sergey Movchan, Vice governor of Saint Petersburg will open the round table.
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06.10.2015 :: Press Conference
On the 6th of October, 2015 Press conference dedicated to the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space" (October 19-20 2015, St. Petersburg) was held in the press centre TASS.  In Details...
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05.10.2015 :: October 6, 2015 Press Conference "Development Strategy of Russia. Forum of Strategic Planning 2015" will be held in TASS Press Centre (Moscow, Tverskoy boulevard, 2, 2nd floor)
October 6, 2015 Press Conference "Development Strategy of Russia. Forum of Strategic Planning 2015" will be held in TASS Press Centre (Moscow, Tverskoy boulevard, 2, 2nd floor), devoted to XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space". In Details  
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01.10.2015 :: Accepting Applications for the Contest "Strategy Visualization" extended until October 9, 2015
Contest is held in two categories: symbol (visual image) of strategy and a brief visual presentation of the core strategy content. Representatives of the authorities can participate at the contest. It is accepted only already published materials with an indication of the source. The application shall include the name of the strategy, which corresponds to a symbol or a brief visual presentation. Representatives of cities/regions - winners in each category (one person) are free from the registration fee for participation in Forum 2016. Conditions of participation: http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/213.html
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01.10.2015 :: Accepting Applications for Participation in Seminar-Bonus for Forum Participants from ICSER "Leontief Centre" and AV Group are until October 15, 2015. Seats are limited.
Representatives of municipal and regional authorities, who have paid for participation in the Forum, will be free to pass an eight-hour training course "Actual technologies of strategic planning" (October 21, 2015, 10-00 – 19-00). Training course is aimed at experts of municipal and regional authorities, who need basic knowledge for effective strategic planning process taking into account requirements of 172-FL "On the strategic planning in the Russian Federation". The course is based on long-term practical experience of two leading Russian companies - consultants at territorial strategic planning: Leontief Centre and AV Group. Seminar is a condensed version of the 20-hour course, which holds by order of subjects of the Russian Federation in relation to a particular development. Seats are limited.  http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/215.html
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28.09.2015 :: Administration of Tomsk region will hold a Round Table "Strategic Planning and Priority Industrial Projects: Comprehensive Solutions and Specialization of Russian Regions"
Within the Forum Administration of Tomsk region will hold a round table "Strategic Planning and Priority Industrial Projects: Comprehensive Solutions and Specialization of Russian Regions". Representatives from the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, JSC "Gazprom", JSC "Rosseti" and regions (Tomsk region, Republic of Tatarstan, Republic of Karelia) will discuss strategic planning system development for promotion of economic development and implementation of industrial policy priorities. Dmitry Zauers, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprombank, will be a round table moderator.  
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28.09.2015 :: Alexey Kudrin will take part in the Round Table "Strategy of Socio-Economic Development of the Russian Federation up to 2030: Implementation Challenges"
Round table "Strategy of Socio-Economic Development of the Russian Federation up to 2030:Implementation Challenges" will take place in October 19, 2015, at 12:00 on the first day of the Forum. Alexey Kudrin, dean of faculty of liberal arts and sciences, will be one of the speakers. Within the round table experts will discuss the conceptual image of the future and the development of six key areas: macroeconomic stability, freedom of entrepreneurship and business climate, structural development and the overcoming of the technological gap, improving the quality of human capital, efficient governance and balanced regional development.
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24.09.2015 :: Regional Competitiveness Index RCI-2015 will be presented at the Forum
On October 19, 2015 Within the round table "Increasing Regional Competitiveness: New Challenges" the organizers AV Group and Regions-Russia Association will present "Regional Competitiveness Index RCI-2015» ©, including top-7, top - 20 and top - 40 regions that are indexed in terms of competitiveness.  One of the key themes of the round table will be discussion about the "live" system of future control - an integrated balanced system of governance aimed at sustainable development.   Participation in the event has already confirmed by Igor Galas, Minister of Economy of the Krasnodar Region; Dmitry Grazhdanov, Head of Strategic Planning Department, Yaroslavl Region; Sergey Yukhachev, Head of Department of Economic Policy, Tambov Region; Anatoly Chumarin, Head of Economy Department, Lipetsk Region; Vladimir Gritskikh, Head of Project Department, NPO «Regional Fund for Social and Economic Development «Tugan IL». It is expected that the round table will also be attended by representatives of Kaluga, Kemerovo, Lipetsk and Rostov regions, Republic of Tatarstan and Krasnodar Region. More information about event can be found on the Forum’s website: http://www.forumstrategov.ru/rus/program/stol47.html  
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18.09.2015 :: Greeting of Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District Vladimir Bulavin is Published on the Site of the Forum
Office of Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District supports annual event and actively takes part in the organization of Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia". Vladimir Bulavin pointed out necessity of forming efficient system of strategic planning from municipal to macroregional and federal levels, emphasising importance of Federal Law "On the strategic planning in Russian Federation" in this process.  www.forumstrategov.ru/eng/222.html  
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16.09.2015 :: Francesco Fresa, Best Architect of Italy 2013, opens the Forum Green Day within the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space"
Francesco Fresa -  is the best architect of Italy 2013, founding partner of Studio Piuarch (Italy) will open the Forum Green Day at the 19th of October. Participation in the event program has been already confirmed by Pablo Celis, Head of the project «Aarhus Cycling City» (Denmark), who will talk about the development of urban cycling infrastructure, ecomobility and promotion of an active lifestyle.   Evelina Lufti, Project Manager, Green Net Finland (Finland), will be speaker at the round table "Innovation networks and clusters of "green technologies", where Russian and foreign experts will discuss the clusters of clean technologies, creating incentives for investments in energy saving technologies and environmental protection.   Forum Green Day will be attended by the delegation of the French Federation of Landscape Architects, headed by Ariane Delilez (France), the Director of the Federation.   At the moment participation in the Forum have confirmed by Martin Guillermo-Ramirez - Secretary General, Association of European Border Regions (Germany); Cynthia Lazaroff - Biosphere Foundation, Executive Vice President (USA); Magelonn Dejan-Pons - Executive Secretary, Coordinating Committee for Cultural Heritage and Landscape Planning of Council of Europe (France); Raitis Sijats - Vidzeme Tourism Association, Chairman of the Board (Latvia); Nikolaos Vagionis - Senior Researcher, Centre for Research in the field of Planning and Economic Affairs (Greece); Rupert Kavka - Project Manager, Federal Agency for Building and Regional Planning Issues in Germany.   It is planned to have more than 20 reports within the two-day Forum program from foreign experts, representatives of national, European and international organizations, including Council of Europe, Association of European Border Regions, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and others.
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11.09.2015 :: Institute of Spatial Planning "Urbanica" presents Integral Rating of Hundred Largest Cities of Russia
Housing, congestion of the transport system, the availability of modern formats of consumption, the level of crime, the possibility of acquiring property, the level of expenditure on housing, purchasing power and many other critical criteria formed the basis for rating of the hundred largest cities of Russia, which will be presented at the Forum by experts of Institute of Spatial Planning "Urbanica". Rating concerns cities with the largest population (above the level of 173 thousand people), representing 44% of the country population. Using official data from Rosstat, major consulting and real estate agencies, as well as from research and development institutes, Institute of Spatial Planning "Urbanica" managed to develop a special system of evaluation of the most important aspects of life for the average citizen of the city.  
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08.09.2015 :: Retrospective Exhibition "History of the Strategic Planning in Graphics" starts working
Retrospective Exhibition "History of the Strategic Planning in Graphics" starts working on the site of the Forum. Incoming materials are available here - http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/220.html, http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/219.html. Anyone who wants to share their well-known examples of successful reflection of the ideas of strategic documents in the graphic image is invited to participate in the exhibition. In details: http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/218.html.
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04.09.2015 :: It has begun Accepting Applications for the Contest "Strategy Visualization"
Contest is held in two categories: symbol (visual image) of strategy and a brief visual presentation of the core strategy content. Representatives of the authorities can participate at the contest. It is accepted only already published materials with an indication of the source. The application shall include the name of the strategy, which corresponds to a symbol or a brief visual presentation. Representatives of cities/regions - winners in each category (one person) are free from the registration fee for participation in Forum 2016. Conditions of participation:  http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/213.html   
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04.09.2015 :: Retrospective Exhibition "History of the Strategic Planning in Graphics" will take place within the Forum
Anyone who wants to share their well-known examples of successful reflection of the ideas of strategic documents in the graphic image is invited to participate in the exhibition. An idea of the exhibition is to present a retrospective of Russian and foreign experience of visual reflection of the basic ideas of territorial strategic planning documents throughout the history of strategic documents development of cities and regions. Exhibition complements the contest "Strategy visualization". Organizer of the exhibition: Association of Specialists of Territories Economic Development. Conditions of participation: http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/218.html  
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03.09.2015 :: Call for Proposals for Presentation at the Round Table "Problems of Implementation of the 172-FL at the Municipal Level" is announced
Subject of the contest: ideas and documents, regulating the order of the municipal strategy development in subject of the Russian Federation. Contest can be presented by practices of Forum participants, as well as by the materials from organization/authority. Conditions of participation: http://www.forumstrategov.ru/rus/214.html
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01.09.2015 :: Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is the Partner of the Forum.
Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is the Partner of the Forum. Eurasian Development Bank - is an international financial organization, established by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 in order to promote the development of the market economy of the participants, their sustainable economic growth and expansion of mutual trade and economic relations. Member states of the Bank are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. 
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01.09.2015 :: Bonus for Forum Participants from ICSER "Leontief Centre" and AV Group
It has begun accepting applications for training course "Actual technologies of strategic planning".  Registered Forum participants will be free to pass an eight-hour training course "Actual technologies of strategic planning" (September 21, 2015, 10-00 – 19-00).    Training course is aimed at experts of municipal and regional authorities, who need basic knowledge for effective strategic planning process taking into account requirements of 172-FL "On the strategic planning in the Russian Federation".    The course is based on long-term practical experience of two leading Russian companies - consultants at territorial strategic planning: Leontief Centre and AV Group.      Seminar is a condensed version of the 20-hour course, which holds by order of subjects of the Russian Federation in relation to a particular development.   Seats are limited.   http://forumstrategov.ru/rus/215.html
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24.08.2015 :: Aleksey Kudrin will be the moderator of the plenary session "The Law on Strategic Planning and Budget Code: Directions of Synchronization"
Aleksey Kudrin, Dean of Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, will be the moderator of the plenary session "The Law on Strategic Planning and Budget Code: Directions of Synchronization". Session will open the second day of the Forum.  Press Release  
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18.08.2015 :: Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation held the meeting of the Comission for organization of the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: The Space for Choice and Choice of Space"
Elena Chuguevskaya, Director of the Department of Strategic and Spatial Planning, was the moderator of the meeting, which was attended by representatives of relevant departments of the Ministry, State Duma of the Russian Federation, ICSER "Leontief centre", JSC "Russian Railways", Vnesheconombank, Higher School of Economics and Union of Architects of Russia. Participants of the meeting discussed the preparation for the Forum, made proposals for revision of the program, approved the additional shares of the Forum and the adjusted plan of information campaign. Comission had referred the greeting by Sergey Naryshkin, Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, to organizers, participants and guests of the Forum. Participants of the meeting discussed the main thematic blocks of the Forum: use of 172-FL ("On the strategic planning in the Russian Federation"), technologies of strategy development, international and cross-border cooperation, territorial planning. Particular attention of the Commission involved in the preparation of the Forum’s program, which has already included at the advanced stage more than 30 shares, expert round tables, meetings and foresights.          
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14.08.2015 :: From the 14th of August, 2015 Accreditation of mass media is opened
From the 14th of August, 2015 Accreditation of mass media is opened. Registration of journalists will be completed on the 15th of October, 2015.  
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13.08.2015 :: An Updated Program of the Forum is published
An Updated Program of XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia" is published on the website www.forumstrategov.ru. There is also a program's net, which reflects the date and timetable of the event.
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10.08.2015 :: A Systemic Vision of the future state of the Transport and Engineering spheres by the 2040 will be discussed within the Forum
Centre for Infrastructure Economics together with Giprogor and Economic partnership "New economic growth" prepares the event in the form of foresight - technology of futture co-engineering, dedicated to formation of the systemic vision of the future state of the transport and engineering spheres by the 2040. It is planned to have representatives from organizers, federal ministries, JSC "Russian Railways" and others.
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03.08.2015 :: Round Table "Urban-Rural Partnership for Sustainable Development: Geographically-Oriented Approach
This year Round Table of the Committee on Spatial Planning and Development in the Baltic Sea Region VASAB will focus on geographically-oriented approach to the formation of partnership between urban and rural areas, based on the principles of sustainable development. Round Table will be a platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience in formation of successful urban-rural partnerships in the Baltic Sea region, and it will also present the practice of modern technologies application, aimed at resource conservation and eco-innovations, increasing rural-urban mobility, promote of rural agricultural and eco-tourism. 
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27.07.2015 :: Analysis of the Implementation of Strategies in Federal Districts and Approaches to Development Strategies in Macroregions (by the example of the Development Strategy of the North-West Federal District until 2020)
It is planned to hold this round table within the first day of the XIV All-Russian Forum. There will be presented an experience the Development Strategy of the North-West Federal District until 2020 according to the 172-FL. This experience can be used to develop the methodological framework, which defines the content, composition and adjustment of socio-economic development strategies in macroregions. Aleksandr Viktorov, Deputy Chairman of an Expert Council of the ANO "Strategic Partnership "North-West", will moderate this session. 
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20.07.2015 :: Roundtable "Adapting technologies of regional and municipal strategic planning to the needs of 172-FL"
Within the XIV All-Russian Forum the roundtable "Adapting technologies of regional and municipal strategic planning to the needs of 172-FL" will be held. It is planned to discuss, how consultants accept the 172-FL and respond to the new challenges in their current projects. Roundtable will be attended by leading Russian consultants and their customers, who have just developed planning documents taking into account the norms of 172-FL. It will be also reviewed and compared cases of Republic of Tatarstan and the Tomsk region.  
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17.07.2015 :: Preliminary program of the Forum is published
The Preliminary program of XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia" is published on the website. Information about the moderators and speakers represented according to the information of organizers shares. In august there will be posted a preliminary shares net and detailed event concepts.  
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14.07.2015 :: Greeting of Georgy Poltavchenko, Governor of Saint Petersburg, is published on the site of the Forum
Georgy Poltavchenko, Governor of Saint Petersburg, made a greeting to participants of the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia". Designating special attention to the issues of strategic planning in Russia, he noticed, that Forum became a good platform for its discussion. In conclusion, the Governor expressed confidence that Forum-2015 will have a creative atmosphere and wished the participants of the Forum successful and fruitful work.    Full version of greeting is available here:  http://www.forumstrategov.ru/eng/174.html  
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03.07.2015 :: Registration of the Forum's Participants
There is an active registration of participants to the XIV All-Russian Forum "Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia". Delegations from Stavropol Krai, Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Kostroma, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov, Tomsk Departments and Republics of Adygea, Komi, Sakha (Yakutia) have already become the Forum’s Participants.  
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