Business programme

Given the current realities in the region, Russia and Azerbaijan are facing new challenges in their allied cooperation. Vast opportunities are opening up for the two countries to expand cooperation in numerous areas. What prospects exist for cooperation in agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, energy, logistics, and the banking sector today? What steps do Russia and Azerbaijan need to take to expand trade and investment ties? What opportunities have appeared for business in this new economic and political paradigm? What difficulties are businesses encountering when exporting products?

Moderator
Natalya Litovko, Editor-in-Chief, «STRANA» TV channel

Natalya Litovko

Editor-in-Chief, «STRANA» TV channel

Natalia has worked on TV since the age of 16. She began as a reporter in Krasnodar. Since 2006 she has worked as a correspondent and presenter of programs of TV channel «Russia 24». She invented and created a specialized format «Facts» on the TV channel as well.
She interviewed ministers, governors, top managers of Russian and foreign companies. Natalia took part in preparation of an election campaign of the president in 2012. She has prepared and conducted several annual presentation of «Digital Television Russia» of VGTRK. Natalia lived on a drilling platform behind the Polar circle and shot the film about oil extraction in the Arctic in 2014.
In 2015 she was appointed as an editor-in-chief of «STRANA» TV Channel, aimed at telling about Russian brands, regions and their points of growth, huge enterprises and private companies, development of internal tourism. She is also the adviser to the Director General of JSC «Digital Television Russia» for public and social broadcasting.

Panellists
Yusif Abdullayev, Executive Director, Export and Investment Promotion Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (AZPROMO)
Igor Babushkin, Governor of Astrakhan Region
Dmitry Volvach, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Orkhan Mammadov, Chairman of the Board, Small and Medium Business Development Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (KOBIA)

Igor Babushkin

Governor of Astrakhan Region

Born on April 5, 1970 in the village of Kamenniki, Rybinsk District, Yaroslavl Region.
Graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School named after the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation. Graduated from the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, the Golitsyn Military Institute of the Federal Border Guard Service of the Russian Federation and the Institute of Management, Economics and Innovation.
From 1992 to 2012, he served in command positions in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and units of the Federal Security Service of Russia.
From 2013 to 2018, he was deputy head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo).
In accordance with the order of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation of September 25, 2018, he was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasian Federal District.
On June 5, 2019, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Acting Governor of the Astrakhan region.
On September 8, 2019, 75.63 percent of voters voted for I.Y. Babushkin in the elections of the Governor of Astrakhan Oblast.
On September 17, 2019, he took office as Governor of Astrakhan Oblast.
Awarded the Order of Honor, the Order of Courage, various departmental awards.
Married, raising a daughter.

Dmitry Volvach

Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

He has three university degrees, graduating in 1996 from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in physics. Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in physics in 1996 and Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in law in 1998. Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in law in 1996 and the All-Russian State Tax Academy with a degree in finance and credit in 2001.

PhD in Law.

From 1998 to 2000 worked in the Inter-District Inspectorate No. 40 of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

From 2000 to 2002 he held various positions in the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Russian Federation.

From 2002 to 2005, he was head of the Credit Organizations Department of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Russian Federation.

From 2005 to 2008, he was Head of the Department of the Federal Tax Service for the Arkhangelsk Region and Nenets Autonomous District.

From 2008 to 2009, he was head of the Administration of the Federal Tax Service of the Stavropol Territory.

From 2009 to 2010, he was deputy head of the IT Department of the Federal Tax Service.

From 2010 to 2011, he was deputy head of the Administration of the Federal Tax Service in the Pskov Region.

In July 2011, he was appointed Head of the Transfer Pricing and International Cooperation Department of the Federal Tax Service.

In June 2014, he was appointed Head of the Department of Standards and International Cooperation of the Federal Tax Service.

In April 2018, he was appointed Head of the International Cooperation and Currency Control Department of the Federal Tax Service.

He holds the class rank of State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 1st Class.

On 29 October 2019, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Tax Service by order of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Mikhail Galuzin

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation