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2021: Foundation set up
In November 2021, it became known about the creation of the Technological Investment Fund in Russia. This is a project of the director of Innopraktika Katerina Tikhonova (the media call her the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin), as well as her first deputy Natalya Popova. Read more here.
2022: Work on import substitution and technological sovereignty in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
On July 13, 2022, it became known about the appointment of Katerina Tikhonova to the post of co-chairman of the coordination council for import substitution at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). This is reported by RBC with reference to a copy of the relevant resolution of the RSPP board bureau. The organization confirmed the information.
As explained to the publication in the press service of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the council is being created in order to coordinate the activities of the working bodies of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on import substitution, summarize successful practices for replacing imported equipment with domestic analogues, create digital services to support import substitution, form a proposal for the implementation of state policy in the field of import substitution and relevant legislative initiatives under the union. The chairman of the council for import substitution and technological independence was the president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin.
The press service of Innopraktiki (the National Intellectual Development Foundation and the Center for National Intellectual Reserve, headed by Katerina Tikhonova, operate under this brand) told RBC that Tikhonova has not yet agreed to join the coordination council of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, but confirmed that such an appointment is possible. Tikhonova also holds the post of Deputy Director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems of Moscow State University.
The ruling by the RSPP board bureau also states that the non-financial reporting board will be renamed the non-financial reporting board, ESG indices and sustainability ratings. Andrey Bugrov, member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, vice president of the Interros holding company, and Oleg Vyugin, economist, will be appointed its chairman.[1]