SPIEF
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
News: At 'Russian Davos' Putin praises ‘economic
resilience’, seeks alternative partnerships
What's
in the news?
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At the 26th edition of the St. Petersburg
International Economic Forum (SPIEF), held last week in Russia’s second-largest city and former imperial capital, the Kremlin
made its message clear to the entire world: the economy is holding up despite
unprecedented Western sanctions.
Key
takeaways:
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This year’s “wartime” SPIEF turned out
less international and lavish than its past editions, for obvious reasons.
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Over 17,000 people from 130 countries, including high-ranking
officials from the UAE, Algeria, Armenia, Cuba and delegations from China,
India and Brazil.
SPIEF
(Russian Davos):
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St. Petersburg International Economic
Forum is Russia’s annual investment
gathering.
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The SPIEF used to be called “Russian
Davos” as it was probably the only such elite gathering of global business
community leaders in this part of the world.
Held
at:
Kremlin
Theme: “Sovereign
Development as the Basis of a Just World: Joining Forces for Future
Generations”
High
level gatherings:
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At different times, Russian President
Vladimir Putin had shared the stage with different world leaders including
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Federal Chancellor of Austria Christian Kern, and
President of Moldova Igor Dodon (2017); French President Emmanuel Macron and
Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe (2018); Chinese President Xi Jinping,
President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev and Prime Ministers of Armenia and Slovakia
Nikol Pashinyan and Peter Pellegrini as well as UN Secretary-General António
Guterres (2019).