OREANDA-NEWS. April 28, 2012. An ordinary meeting of the Coordination Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) of the Central Federal District presided by Mikhail Kuzovlev, the Vice President of the RUIEВ and the member of the Management Board of the Employers Union of the RUIE, took place in Kaluga.

Along with the members of the Board the meeting was also attended by Anatoly Artamonov, Kaluga Region Governor, Viktor Baburin, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Kaluga Region, Boris Aubakirov, Head of the Social and Economic Development Department of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District, Andrei Sokolov, Director of the Economy Development Projects Department of the Russian Ministry of Economy and Development, Igor Melamed, General Director of ZAO International Centre of Regional Development (developer of the Central Federal District Social and Economic Development Strategy) and others.

The key issues discussed at the meeting were public/private partnership and its role in the implementation of the Central Federal District Social and Economic Development Strategy for the period up to 2020.

Within the framework of the RUIE meeting an agreement on cooperation and interaction between the regional employers unions, i.e. the Moscow Area Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Kaluga Area Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs was signed. The subject of the agreement was the RUIE members’ intention to join their efforts in contributing towards the development of mutually beneficial economic, scientific, technical and industrial cooperation between the business entities of the Moscow and Kaluga regions.

"Today the basic task of the Central Federal District is to assume its own development model reflecting the specifics and competitive advantages of the district’s economy. It needs not to be said that no strategies, event the best ones, can be implemented without relevant toolware. Therefore the redline of the RUIE Board meeting in the Central Federal District was the practical aspects and measures aimed at supporting economy and business in the area," said Mikhail Kuzovlev, President and the Chairman of the Management Board of the Bank of Moscow.