Round Table: Special Legal Regimes of Territories as an Instrument of Development

Within the framework of the 18th April Conference of the Higher School of Economics, the Institute held a round table devoted to special legal regimes.

The moderator was Director of the Institute, Alexey Ivanov.

 

The following issues were discussed:

 

• What are the reasons for the ineffectiveness of the institution of special legal regimes for territorial development in Russia?

• How is it possible to overcome the formulaic nature of the use of special legal regimes?

• How can we make the institution of special legal regimes a legitimate working tool for the economic development of territories, giving business and local communities a "fishing rod, not a fish"?

• Does Russia have the potential to grow its own Hong Kong?

• What countries could be Russia's partners in deploying a Russian offshore model? Could their services be in demand on the international market?

 

Discussion participants: V. Sivitsky (Higher School of Economics), A. Nikitchenko (Directorate of the Federal Program for Social and Economic Development of the Crimea and Sevastopol), V. Solodov (Deputy Presidential Envoy in the Far East Federal District), N. Kosbaev (Director of the Legal Department of the International Financial Centre "Astana"), I. Ognev (Vnesheconombank), K. Zenin (English solicitor, member of the International Expert Council of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan), Z. Ayvazyan (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration).