Programme

What legal aspects should a modern Russian blogger and opinion leader pay attention to? What legislative initiatives await the media? What laws have significantly changed the online world today? How can one effectively build a career as an influencer?

Moderator
Anastasia Milyutina, First Deputy Executive Director - Chief of Staff, Association of Lawyers of Russia

Anastasia Milyutina

First Deputy Executive Director - Chief of Staff, Association of Lawyers of Russia

Panellists
Elena Avakyan, Vice President, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Ruslan Gatsalov, Founder, "ArtLaw" Center for Legal Protection of Creative Industries
Elena Grin, Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Intellectual Rights, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Elena Zaeva, Head of Communications and Information Technology Regulation Department, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS Russia)
Dmitry Zemskov, Blogger
Natalya Kovaleva, Chief Researcher, Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Lyubov Malyarevskaya, Director General, Russian Mediagroup
Natalia Pobortseva, Actress

Elena Avakyan

Vice President, The Russian Federal Bar Association

Elena Avakyan is the Executive Director of the Non-Profit Partnership for Advancement of Corporate Law.
Since 2019, Elena has been a member of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers Council. Since 2018, she served on the Expert Council on Legislative Support for the Development of the Securities Market and Derivative Financial Instruments under the Committee of the State Duma for Financial Markets.
From 2006 to 2014, Elena served as the head of Control and Analytic Directorate at the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. She was one of the ideologists of the e-justice project in Russia and one of its managers.
In 2004–2005, Elena was the chairwoman of the board of the National Association of Securities Market Participants. In 1999–2004, she was the head of Legal Control Service and vice president of Renaissance-Capital. Before that, she worked as a general counsel of the board of the St Petersburg Stock Exchange.
At various times, Elena served as a financial market legislation expert for the FAS of Russia and Ministry of Finance, corporate governance expert for the Ministry of Economic Development, expert for the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets and Council of the Federation Committee on Financial Markets and Money Circulation as well as an expert of the Property Committee of the RF State Duma, an assistant to the Committee chairperson and assistant to a deputy of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building. Since 2011, she is a member of the working group on multi-purpose centers. She took part in the drafting of a concept of new civil legislation.
Elena is a member of all working groups at the Skolkovo competence centres in each of the focus areas of the Digital Economy national programme; she leads a small working group on the concept of an ‘electronic document’ within the Skolkovo working groups.

Ruslan Gatsalov

Founder, "ArtLaw" Center for Legal Protection of Creative Industries

Elena Grin

Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Intellectual Rights, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)

Elena Zaeva

Head of Communications and Information Technology Regulation Department, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS Russia)

Dmitry Zemskov

Blogger

Natalya Kovaleva

Chief Researcher, Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Lyubov Malyarevskaya

Director General, Russian Mediagroup

Lyubov Malyarevskaya is the CEO of JSC Russian Media Group, a highly qualified professional with 20 years of experience in finance and management in companies in various industries.
Lyubov graduated from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics in 2001 and from the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy in 2015. In 2018, she completed postgraduate studies at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. She also received an Executive MBA from the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management.
Work experience:
· Chief Executive Officer of JSC Russian Media Group;
· Deputy CEO of Russian Media Group for Economics and Finance;
· Member of the Board of Directors and Head of the Audit Committee of Mother and Child Group LSE ticker "MDMG";
· Managing Director of Sberbank's Finance Department (involved in preparations for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics)
· Partner and Head of Corporate Finance at BDO;
· BDO Training Centre trainer;
· Senior Manager in Deloitte's M&A Transaction Support Department;
· PriceWaterhouseCoopers Audit Consultant.
Today Lyubov Malyarevskaya is a lecturer of the Master's programme at the International Business School Faculty of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. She is the author of more than 10 scientific articles and a consultant of the program "Money on a Barrel" on Russian Radio.
Interests: finance, management, financial management, financial literacy, financial security.
Lyubov Malyarevskaya was named one of the Top 3 CFOs in the media industry by Kommersant newspaper in 2020. She was awarded a medal and a certificate of merit for preparations for the XXII Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi.

Natalia Pobortseva

Actress