Ulmart Russia House 2.0 Serves as a Central Discussion Platform at Davos 2017

DAVOS, Switzerland, January 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Russia House, the official residence of the Russian business community at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, has successfully completed its activities. The majority of WEF participants have acknowledged the Russia theme as one of the central for Davos this year. Ulmart, Russia's leading e-commerce company, and Roscongress, the largest foundation hosting business forums in Russia, welcomed a record number of high-profile guests as the organizers of Russia House and produced sought after events.  

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Russia House aimed to demonstrate that the country is open for dialog and cooperation, as well as highlighting successful business stories from Russia, a goal fully achieved as evidenced by high level of interest and turnout.

Over 3,000 people including government officials, heads of international and Russian businesses, representatives of investment community, renowned economists and bankers have attended Russia House events.  Among the guests were: Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan; Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund; Alexey Mordashov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Severstal; Dmitry Konov, Chairman of the Management Board of SIBUR; Dr. Joerg Reinhardt, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novartis; Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President of the EBRD; Shahar Waiser, Founder and CEO of Gett; Pavel Durov, Founder of Vkontakte; Carmine DiSibio, Global Managing Partner of EY; Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman of SUN Group; Cees 't Hart, CEO of Carlsberg Group; Christian Sewing, a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank AG; Gary Coombe, President, Europe Selling & Market Operations of Procter & Gamble; Ramon Laguarta, CEO, Europe Sub-Saharan Africa, PepsiCo; Alanna Abrahamson, Senior Vice President of ABB.