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The report published by Alfa-Bank in collaboration with the international research company MARC offers an index of small business sentiment and assesses the current state of small business in Russia.

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has invariably attracted some of the worlds greatest minds. Nowhere was this more apparent than at SPIEF 2016, which hosted a meeting of Nobel laureates entitled «What Will the Mid-21st Century Look Like?» Below are some of the topics covered by Nobel laureates at other sessions.

The third edition of the National Report highlights regions with favorable conditions where resources are concentrated for high technologies development, as well as regions that have already succeeded in non-resource sector developing. The global goal of the Report is to identify potential points of non-resource growth of the Russian economy.