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A conference with Alexey OULIUKAEV,
Minister of the Economic Development of the Federation of Russia
Chairman: Thomas GOMART, Vice-President for Strategic Developement and of the Russia/NIS Center, Ifri
Russia is currently in a period of economic slow-down: the prospects of growth for 2013 are estimated at 1.9%. In this context, what are the strategy and the priorities for the Russian Government? What are the middle-term prospects of the national economic model?
Biography:
Alexey Valentinovitch Ouliukaev leads the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation since June 2013. From 1991 to 2013, he has successively been Economic Counsellor of the Government, Vice-President of the Institute of the Transition Economy Problems, Vice-Minister of Finance and First Vice-President of the Central Bank of Russia. He holds a PhD in Economy from the State University of Moscow and from the University Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble). He is the author of several books on the Russian economy.
The Minister will speak in Russian with a simultaneous translation Russian/French
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