Bashkortostan journalists are invited at a press conference dedicated to the first R2R forum

UFA, 6 October 2015. /Bashinform News Agency,Ksenia Kalinina/. Bashkortostan journalists are invited to a press conference at the Mission RB under the Russian President in Moscow on October 8. It is dedicated to the first Forum "Small Business of Regions of SCO and BRICS Member-States", which will take place in Ufa from October 21 to 23. The Bashinform News Agency was reported this by the head of the press centre of the Mission of the republic in Moscow Gulchachak Hannanova.

The press conference will be attended by the main organizers, the leading speakers and partners of the Forum.

The press conference will be attended by the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Forum, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government RB Dmitry Sharonov, Executive Secretary of the SCO Business Council Sergey Kanavsky, President of the All-Russian public organization of small and medium business "OPORA Russia" Alexander Kalinin, Director of the Department for Entrepreneurship and Service of Commerce and Industry Chamber RF Anna Palagina, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce RB Azat Fazlyev, Executive Director of the Association of Computer and Information Technologies of Russia Nikolay Komlev, and others.

The "Small Business of Regions of SCO and BRICS Member-States" Forum will be the first business meeting to be held in the R2R format (region to region). This format for the first time was suggested by the Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov during his speech at a meeting of the Business Council of BRICS in Brazil in 2014. This idea was supported during the SCO and BRICS Summits carried out in Ufa in July 2015.

The organizer and coordinator of the events of the largest business meeting is the Government of Bashkortostan and the organizing committee formed by it, as well as the organizing committee for preparation and support of the Russian Federation's chairmanship in the SCO in 2014-2015 and in BRICS association in 2015. The co-organizer is the Russian Franchising Association.

Journalists should be accredited in the press centre of the Mission by e-mail [email protected] or by phone 8-906-048-36-26 before 18.00 October 7.