How to Form a Unified Film Space in the CIS

Speakers

• Dauren AbayevAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation
• Natalia BocharovaSecretary General, International Russian Language Organization
• Konstantin ErnstGeneral Director, Channel One Russia
• Alexey FursinMinister of the Moscow Government, Head, Moscow Department of Culture

  Alexey was born on December 1, 1974.
  In 1997 he graduated from the State University of Land Management in Moscow.
  From 1997 to 2001, he studied at The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
  From 1997 to 1998, he worked as a junior specialist in the department of federal lands of the Department of Land Relations Reform of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Land Resources and Land Management.
  In 1998, he moved to the position of chief specialist of the federal lands department of the Land Policy Department of the Ministry of the Russian Federation on land policy, construction, and housing and communal services.
  From December 1998 to August 2000 he served as chief specialist of the department of federal lands of the Office of State and Municipal Lands, was an advisor, deputy head of the Department of State Lands of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Land Policy.
  In 2000, he moved to the position of Head of the Legislative Work Division of the Land Reform Administration, worked as Deputy Head of the Land Reform Administration. Until 2004, he worked as the head of the legislative work and regulatory support section of the Land Policy Department of the Ministry of Property Relations of the Russian Federation.
  In 2004, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Office of Real and Movable Property of the Federal Agency for the Management of Federal Property and worked in this position until 2007.
  From 2007 to 2008, he worked as Deputy General Director for the separation of state ownership of land and regional development in the Directorate of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Federal Computer Center for Stock and Commodity Information Technologies (FT-Center)"
  In 2008, he moved to the position of head of the Department of Land Resources and Real Estate. Until October 2015, he held the position of First Deputy General Director of the Federal Housing Development Foundation (“RHD FUND”).
  In September 2016, he was appointed First Deputy Head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow.
  In February 2017, Alexey Fursin was appointed Head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow.
  On September 21, 2018, he was appointed Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development of Moscow.

• Olga LyubimovaMinister of Culture of the Russian Federation

  Born 31 December 1980 in Moscow

  2007: Graduated from the Department of Theatre Journalism, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), with a degree in Theatre Studies.

  2006–2008: Chief Editor, Directorate of Television Programmes, Moskovia Television and Radio Company.

  2010–2011: Team chief, information and analysis programme, Directorate of Information Programmes, Kultura State Television and Radio Company (GTRK).

  2011–2012: Chief producer of documentaries, Programme Department, TV3 Television Channel.

  2015–2016: Adviser, State Support Section for Non-Fiction and Animation Films, Cinema Department, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

  2016–2018: Deputy Director, Directorate of Social Programmes and Reports, Channel One.

  2018–2020: Director, Film Department, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

  21 January 2020: Appointed Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation by Presidential Executive Order.

• Obid NazorienFirst Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan
• Sergei SarakachDeputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Belarus
• Nadirbek SayfullaevFirst Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan