RUSSIAN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL FORUM IN SWITZERLAND

Fourth Session – Zurich, 30 – 31 January 2005

DAY ONE: Sunday, 30 January 08.00-09.00 Registration of delegates. 09.00 Session 1. Welcome speeches.   Jean-Daniel GERBER State Secretary, Director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)   Aleksander ZHUKOV Deputy Prime Minister of Russia   Dmitri CHERKASHIN Ambassador of Russia in Switzerland and Liechtenstein   Erwin HOFER Ambassador of Switzerland in Russia   Viktor CHERNOMYRDIN Ambassador of Russia in Ukraine, Former Prime Minister of Russia   Urs. P. ROTH Chief Executive Officer of the Swiss Bankers Association  Pierre MULLER Mayor of the City of Geneva 11.00-11.20 Coffee break   11.20 Session 2. General political and economic situation in Russia in 2004 and its further development in 2005. Reform of the Russian budget system and delimitation of authorities between different branches of power   Svetlana ORLOVA Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Federation   Yury VASSILIEV Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma on Budget and Taxes   Arkadi DVORKOVICH Head of the Expert Department of the President of Russia   Andrey SHARONOV Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Russia   Alexander LIKHOTAL President and CEO of the Green Cross International Victor VEKSELBERG Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board of TNK-BP 13.40-15.00  Lunch sponsored by Vneshtorgbank 15.00 Session 3. Russian financial sector: basic principles of restructuring and promotion. First results of the implementation of the bank deposits insurance system   Ilya LOMAKIN-RUMYANTSEV Head of the Federal Service of Insurance Supervision of Russia   Garegin TOSUNYAN President of the Association of Russian Banks   Pavel MEDVEDEV Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Banking Legislation   Andrey KOZLOV First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia   Sergey SHATALOV Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Aleksander ZHELEZNYAK Chairman of the Board, Probusinessbank 16.40-17.00 Coffee break 17.00 Session 4. Russian financial sector: basic principles of restructuring and promotion. Role of state banks and foreign capital in the Russian banking system   Oleg VYUGIN Head of the Federal Financial Markets Service of Russia   Mikhail ZADORNOV Chairman of the Sub-Committee of the State Duma on Monetary and Credit Policy, Currency Regulations and Operations of the Central Bank    Michel PERHIRIN Chairman of the Board, Raiffeisenbank Austria   Vasily KHAMAZA Deputy Chairman of the Board, Rosselkhozbank Gerrit STRAUB Member of the Board, CIS Interfincom AG 19.00-20.30 Evening reception sponsored by the Canton and City of Zurich   DAY TWO: Monday, 31 January 09.00 Session 5. International economic and financial cooperation and its legislation. Bilateral Russia-Switzerland business cooperation and investments   Martin VOLLENWYDER Member of the Zurich City Council, Head of the Finance Department    Hugo BЬTLER Chief Editor of the Neue Zьrcher Zeitung                            Vladimir RASHEVSKI President of the Siberian Coal Energy Company   Stephan KUX Head of Economic Development, Office for Economy and Labour of the Canton of Zurich Oussama HIMANI Head of Research Emerging Markets, Wealth Management International, UBS 11.00-11.20  Coffee break 11.20 Session 6. International economic and financial cooperation and its legislation. Bilateral Russia-Switzerland business cooperation and investments   Mikhail POPOV Trade Representative of Russia in Switzerland   Ivan PICTET Chairman of the Geneva Financial Center Foundation; Partner, Bank Pictet   Yuri ISAEV Managing Director, Government Relations, RUSAL   Hans G. GUELDENBERG Managing Director, Nestle Food Vladimir DMITRIEV Chairman, Vnesheconombank 12.20-12.40 Coffee break 12.40 Session 7. Fight against money laundering: Russian and international practice and experience. International economic and financial cooperation and its legislation. Liechtenstein financial place: past and future   Viktor ZUBKOV Head of the Federal Service of Russia on Financial Monitoring   Andrey MOVTCHAN President, BCEN-Eurobank   H.S.H. Prince PHILIPP of LIECHTENSTEIN Chairman of the LGT Group Foundation   Michael LAUBER Director of the Liechtenstein Bankers Association   Renй BRЬLHART Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Liechtenstein Markus BЬCHEL Lawyer, Former Prime Minister of Liechtenstein 14.00-15.00   Termination of the Forum and lunch sponsored by Vnesheconombank GENERAL SPONSOR OF THE FORUM Probusinessbank SPONSORS OF THE FORUM CIS Interfincom, GLOBEX Bank, LGT Group, Raiffeisenbank Austria, Rosselkhozbank, UBS, Vnesheconombank, Vneshprombank, Vneshtorgbank, Canton and City of Zurich ADMINISTERED BY FINAS