XXV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) will be held from 15 to 18 June. Many are wondering how the event, which is also known for its luxury parties, will fare in the face of unprecedented sanctions against Russia. We have collected in our material everything that is known about the forum program.

Forum members

Contrary to fears that the forum might not be international this year, foreign guests still confirmed their participation. Yes, according to the newspaper “Vedomosti”, more than 500 speakers from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Italy, Canada, the USA, France, China, India, Cuba are present in St. Coming to Petersburg. Egypt this year, St. Guest country of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. In total, according to official data, guests from 127 countries will attend the forum, including Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands.

Of course, top managers of Russian companies also take part in the forum. Thus, in the session devoted to the global gas market and its prospects, the speeches of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak and the Chairman of the Board of PJSC were made. “gazprom” Alexey Miller. The forum will not only be business speakers. Well-known rhythmic gymnastics trainer Irina Viner-Usmanova can be heard at the session “Sport without barriers: new scenarios and formats”.

A separate session will be devoted to new realities for Western investors in Russia. They paid attention to the role of women in business development. For example, the program has conferences “Women in the BRICS Economy” and “Women in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry”.

The price of the basic package “Participant” this year amounted to 960 thousand rubles. It provides access to all events of the forum’s business and cultural programs, except those entered by special invitation.

Fun

SPIEF has always boasted and “fat” secular program: noisy corporate parties, performances of the most expensive and best groups (for example, “mummy troll”, “B2” and Sergey Shnurov “Leningrad” among the artists regularly invited to the forum), lavish banquets . Casual businessmen at the after party always attracted viewers from close society, and the “escort”Ksenia Sobchak once mocked.

This year, as we already know, everything will be more modest. Thus, banks rejected large-scale parties. “opening” and “rosbank”They say that Sberbank, which came under Western sanctions, will not arrange anything.

The music program has also changed. “mummy troll”as you know, suspended his concert activity due to the situation in Ukraine, canceled his concert in SPIEF and the group. “B2”. The musicians recently got into a scandalous situation by refusing to perform under a banner with the Russian flag in Omsk, and earlier information came to the network that they fired the lighting designers for supporting a special operation in Ukraine.

A number of telegraph channels criticized the group’s “unpatriotic” situation. after that, they began to cancel the summer concerts of “B2” – their concert in the Ginza restaurant as part of SPIEF disappeared from the poster. Prices for this ranged from 200,000 for a four-person table to 600 thousand for an eight-person table. Garik Sukachev will now be on the stage of the restaurant, according to TASS, instead referring to the press service of “B2” Ginza.

Group “B2”

According to the telegram channel “anti-glare”, performances by Basta, Sergey Lazarev, pianist Denis Matsuev, conductors Valery Gergiev and Teodor Currentzis and opera singer Khibla Gerzmava are also expected at SPIEF.

The concert is mentioned in the official program on the forum’s website. On Palace Square, a gala night dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the “Stars of Russian radio” Peter I, a series of symphony concerts at the Mikhailovsky Theater and graduation concerts of the Boris Eifman Dance Academy.

Menu

The gastronomic program of the forum has always received special attention. Photos of the menus of buffets and restaurants serving guests on event days are always spread on the network. The prices in this menu caused heated debate on social networks.

This year, the first insider has already hit the network. The Telegram channel of restaurant operator Alexander Sysoev has published the menu for the Eclipse Classic restaurant. So, Murmansk salmon tartare with strawberries will cost 1,850 rubles, a portion of black caviar with homemade pancakes will cost 8,100 rubles, and fillet mignon with foie gras will cost 4,300 rubles.

New technologies

This year, the first cyber cafe with a supermodel robot will open at SPIEF. A Robo-C-2 droid named Dunyasha will serve coffee and ice cream to guests. The project “cyber cafe “to the world” developed by the company “promotional robot” is a Russian manufacturer of autonomous service robots.

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