Davos Annual Meeting 2011 - Russia's Next Steps to Modernization

http://www.weforum.org 27.01.2011
With its national goal to become a knowledge-based economy and society in the next decade, what next steps are required for Russia's modernization?

The following dimensions will be addressed:

- The mindset for effective change
- Building confidence in business and government
- The foreign investment climate

This session is co-organized with the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

• Jim Albaugh, President and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, USA
• Patrick Kron, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alstom, France
• Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business
• Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Moderated by
• Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, USA

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[RussianPunch]

@m0i0d7i Russia has to understand that the only true enemy is its own corruption that allows government officials and underlings to abuse power for personal profiteering and at the expense of the people. One need only see how the interior ministry and police ministry were used to cover up crimes of heads of ministries stealing hundreds of millions in taxes -- a shocking case that Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and killed for trying to expose.

[RussianPunch]

@4werr0n3 You buy the fishy fabrication of corrupt Russian officials in the police and and interior ministries involved in the massive theft of Russian taxes--a case that whistle blower and Russian patriot Sergei Magnitsky courageous fought to the point of torture and finally death. Russia has a dark, dirty history of persecuting and murdering its true patriots like Solynitzen.

[meProudToBeCaucasian]

@unomnacajit1 ure a joke

[4werr0n3]

I still don't buy Browders fishy story.He was prolly trying to take over a military complex or something in that order of magnitude.

[jissa683]

yes only you know , we cant know

[gambart2002]

Russia needs to improve their judicial system first... I used to live there. Most judges are corrupt and citizens don't respect the rule of law.

[calorus]

The man at 38:40 is William Browder of Hermitage Fund. His lawyer who was "Slowly killed" was Sergei Magnitsky.

Google away.

[calorus]

It has to be said at 38:40 when a man describes his harassment and the murder of his lawyer and the Deputy PM's response is: "We must look at the future, not at the past" and says some people were "fired" -- I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[unomnacajit1]

Russia's modernisation? haha what a joke...

[IgorVasilevskii]

Where can I download the HQ version of video about Russia's modernisation projects in the beginning?