Business programme

Significant changes in the structure of international economy dictate the need to deepen cooperation between Russia and Belarus based on equality and consideration of national interests, while ensuring their economic security for both. After signing 28 Union Programmes in November 2021, the Union State enters a truly unprecedented cooperation phase between the two countries. Single synchronized policies must appear in the industrial field, in the agricultural sphere, and in the area of finance, while the efforts of the social block ministries should be united. How are the adopted Union programmes put into practice? What changes are most demanded by business at the moment? What do large industrial enterprises need to implement import substitution initiatives? How is cooperation in high-tech spheres and partnership in science and technology implemented under current conditions? What does the development of integration processes give to the citizens of the two countries?

Moderator
Dmitry Mezentsev, State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus

Dmitry Mezentsev

State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus

Born August 18, 1959 in Leningrad.
After graduating, in 1981, from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers, worked as a workshop expert of the Leningrad-Baltic Locomotive Depot of the Oktyabrskaya Railways.
1983–1984: carried out Young Communist League work in Leningrad.
1984–1990: served as an officer in the Soviet Army, in the army press division.
1990–1991: people’s deputy of the Leningrad City Soviet, head of the Leningrad Soviet and city executive committee press centre.
1991–1996: Chairman of the Press and Media Committee of the St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office, representative of the Ministry for Information and the Press of Russia.
1996–1999: Deputy Chairman of the State Press Committee of the Russian Federation.
November 1999: President, Centre for Strategic Research (Moscow).
January 2002 – June 2009: member of the Council of the Federation, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (CF FARF), representative of the Administration of the Irkutsk Region on the CF FARF; 2002–2006: Chairman of the CF Commission on information policy.
2004–2009: Vice Chairman of the CF FARF
2006: by directive of the Government of the RF, appointed authorized representative for the SCO Business Council and elected Chairman of the SCO Business Council; re-elected in 2009.
2009–2012: Governor and Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk Region.
On June 7, 2012, at the SCO summit in Beijing, appointed Secretary-General of the Organisation for January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015.
Ambassador.
Professor, Head of Political Psychology Department, St. Petersburg University, since 2008, CSc (Psych.), associate professor of MGIMO (U) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and of Russia since 1988.
Marries with a daughter and a grandson.
Awards: Order ‘For services to the Homeland’ 4th degree, Order of Honour, medals, officer of the state Order of the Legion d’Honneur (France), medal ‘For strengthening Russian–Chinese Friendship’.

Panellists
Dmitry Volvach, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Daniil Egorov, Head, Federal Tax Service of Russia
Vladimir Koltovich, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus
Michail Miatlikov, Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Alexey Overchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Sergey Sinelnikov - Murylev, Rector, Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Nikolay Snopkov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
Dmitry Kharitonchik, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Belarus
Alexander Shokhin, President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Dmitry Volvach

Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

He has three university degrees, graduating in 1996 from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in physics. Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in physics in 1996 and Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in law in 1998. Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in law in 1996 and the All-Russian State Tax Academy with a degree in finance and credit in 2001.

PhD in Law.

From 1998 to 2000 worked in the Inter-District Inspectorate No. 40 of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

From 2000 to 2002 he held various positions in the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Russian Federation.

From 2002 to 2005, he was head of the Credit Organizations Department of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Russian Federation.

From 2005 to 2008, he was Head of the Department of the Federal Tax Service for the Arkhangelsk Region and Nenets Autonomous District.

From 2008 to 2009, he was head of the Administration of the Federal Tax Service of the Stavropol Territory.

From 2009 to 2010, he was deputy head of the IT Department of the Federal Tax Service.

From 2010 to 2011, he was deputy head of the Administration of the Federal Tax Service in the Pskov Region.

In July 2011, he was appointed Head of the Transfer Pricing and International Cooperation Department of the Federal Tax Service.

In June 2014, he was appointed Head of the Department of Standards and International Cooperation of the Federal Tax Service.

In April 2018, he was appointed Head of the International Cooperation and Currency Control Department of the Federal Tax Service.

He holds the class rank of State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 1st Class.

On 29 October 2019, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Tax Service by order of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Daniil Egorov

Head, Federal Tax Service of Russia

Daniil Egorov was born on September 7, 1975 in Moscow

Education:
1998: Peoples' Friendship University
Degree: Jurisprudence

Career:
2000-2001: member of the commission of the Inter-regional Board of Defense Lawyers for Businesses and Individuals
2001: Legal Adviser, Head of Legal Department at Eneko.
2001-2003: first-category specialist and consultant, Management Support Department, Moscow Department of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties
2003-2005: head of the department of information support, electronic data entry and desk audit; later head of the office inspections department at the Interdistrict Inspectorate of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of Russia No. 44 in Moscow
2005-2009: head of the department of desk audit, head of the department of field audits No. 2 of Interdistrict Inspectorate No. 50 of the Federal Taxation Service of Russia in Moscow
2009-2010: deputy head of the control department of the administration of the Federal Taxation Service of the Russian Federation in Moscow
2010-2011: deputy head of the department for disputes with individuals, head of the department for disputes with major taxpayers, deputy head of the department, and head of the pre-trial audit department at the Federal Taxation Service
2011-January 2020: Deputy Head of the Federal Taxation Service

Daniil Egorov was appointed Head of the Federal Taxation Service by Directive No. 21-r of the Government of the Russian Federation of January 17, 2020.

Vladimir Koltovich

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus

Michail Miatlikov

Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Alexey Overchuk

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born 9 December 1964 in Korostyshev, Zhitomir Region, Ukraine.

1986: Graduated from the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy with a degree in Economic Cybernetics. PHD in Economics.

1986–1993: Senior laboratory technician at the Economic Cybernetics Department, junior research fellow, research fellow, senior research fellow at the laboratory for economic mechanism improvement at the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

1993–1998: Chief specialist, deputy head of the International Cooperation Department of the Russian State Committee on Land Resources and Land Management.

April–July 1998: Head of the Department of State Registration of Real Estate Rights at the Russian State Land Committee.

July–December 1998: Head of the Information and Analysis Department at the Russian Ministry of Land Policy, Construction, Housing and Utilities.

1998–1999: Head of the Information and Analysis Department at the Russian State Land Committee.

1999–2000: Head of the Information and Analysis Department at the Russian Land Policy Committee.

August 2000: Appointed deputy head of the Russian Federal Cadastre Service.

April 2004: Acting deputy head, July 2004: Deputy head of the Federal Real Estate Cadastre Agency.

2007–2008: Deputy head of the Federal Agency on Special Economic Zones Management.

2008–2010: Held senior positions at UFG Asset Management Group.

2010: Advisor to the head of the Federal Taxation Service.

2011: Appointed deputy head of the Federal Taxation Service.

21 January 2020: Appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia by a Presidential Executive Order.

Sergey Sinelnikov - Murylev

Rector, Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Nikolay Snopkov

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus

Dmitry Kharitonchik

Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Belarus

Alexander Shokhin

President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Alexander N. Shokhin was born 25 December, 1951.
Graduated from the Moscow State University in 1974.
Doctor of Economics, Professor.
Twice, in 1991-1994 and in 1998, Mr. Shokhin held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
In 1991-1994 he also held positions of Minister of Labor, Minister of Economics, Chairman of the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development.
From 1994 to 2002 – Deputy of the State Duma, with the posts of First Vice Chairman of the State Duma, leader of the Duma party bloc 'Our Home is Russia', Head of the Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Capital Markets.
Since 1995 - President of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics.
From 2002 to 2006 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Investment Group "Renaissance Capital".
From 2005 to 2009 – member of the RF Public Chamber.
Since 2005 – President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Mr. Shokhin is a member of several deliberative bodies under the Russian President and Government. He is also an independent director on the Boards of several companies, including ALROSA, Russian Railways, TMK and others.