The International Legal Forum “Kazan Legal 2017” recently took place in Kazan hotel “Korston”.
Organizers of this forum were an agency of innovative development of the Republic of Tatarstan, a law office “Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasyev and partners” with support of the Republic of Tatarstan’s government. Over 700 hundred participants from 26 countries of the world took part in this forum to exchange with their experience in the field of legal regulation and law enforcement.
President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Presidential Commissioner of Russia for the Rights of Enterprisers Boris Titov, Head of Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia Igor Artemev, Chairman of Committee of the law office “Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasyev and partners” Dmitry Afanasyev, Chairman of European Commission for the Efficiency of the Justice George Stava, Chairman of Legal Association of Lawyers of Russia Vladimir Gruzdev and others took part in this meeting. KIU at the forum was represented by Dean of Faculty of Law Andrei Nikitin and Scientific Employee of Anticorruption Scientific Research Institute Alexey Dmitriev.
A topic of this forum was “Legal environment as a key factor for the economic growth”. Participants of the forum also discussed topics of attracting investments and actual issues to solve argues, including international, spoke about future of digital economics in Russia and last significant changes in Russian legislation.
In terms of the forum 42 sessions, including 9 satellite events took place. KIU Delegation actively took part in a roundtable discussion "Model of the functioning of national associations of lawyers: the experience of Russia and Indonesia". Moderators of the roundtable discussion were Vice-rector of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Chairman of the Central Control and Revision Commission of the Association of Lawyers of Russia Sergei Shakhrai, Executive Director, Head of Association of Lawyers of Russia Stanislav Alexandrov, Head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan Viktor Demidov and President Lawyers' Chamber of the Republic of Tatarstan Larisa Dmitrievskaya.