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INFORMATION ON DUMA ROUNDTABLE
The roundtable on entrepreneurial legislation was held on
February 15, 2002 at the Heraldic Hall of State Duma of the
Russian Federation of Federal Assembly. It was convened upon
request of CIC Committee on private entrepreneurship development,
small & medium business members and experts of US-Russia
Small Business Working Group.
The roundtable chairs were: Georgy V. Boos, Deputy Chairman
of State Duma, Dmitry O. Rogozin, Chairman of State Duma Committee
on international affairs, Sergey N. Katyrin, Vice-President
of the Chamber of Industry & Commerce of the Russian Federation
(CIC) .
State Duma deputies, representatives of Presidential Administration,
federal ministries and agencies, US Embassy, USAID, World
Bank, European Union, Eurasia Foundation participated in this
roundtable.
On behalf of US-Russia Small Business Working Group (SBWG)
and CIC Committee Veniamin Sh. Kaganov, AMM Vice-Rector, delivered
remarks on document entitled "Small Business Legislation
Priorities". He proposed to debate it and recommended
profile State Duma committees to take it as a basis when developing
small business legislation in 2002.
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Among the discussion participants were: I. Grachyov, State
Duma deputy; V. Pleskachevsky, Chairman of State Duma Committee
on property; V. Plotnikov, Chairman of State Duma Committee
on agrarian issues; A. Sharonov, Vice-Minister on economic
development & trade; A. Egorushkov, Deputy Minister for
Antimonopoly Policy & Support To Entrepreneurship; K.
Armstrong, Director, Office of Business Development &
Investments, USAID/Russia; E. Vasilyeva, Senior Project Officer,
Eurasia Foundation/Moscow Office; K. Gaustov, Chairman of
Mutual Crediting Society; A. Fontana, TACIS Coordinator; V.
Ermakov, President of the Russian Agency for Small & Medium
Business Support.
Delivered proposals were highly appreciated by roundtable
participants. The special emphasis was placed on the positive
role of US-Russia SBWG experts as well as findings of conferences
(October 2001, December 2001) organized under US Government
support within the framework of SBWG activities. For the first
time a single approach was proposed with regard to small business
legislation issues. Besides, a precedent was created when
business associations' initiative was strongly supported at
such a high official level.
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