Russian Deputy Minister: Legislative Support Measures Not Only Helped to Thwart Sanctions, But Also Find New Ways for Further Development

October 13, 2022

Russian Deputy Minister of Energy and State Secretary Anastasia Bondarenko spoke at the panel session ‘Russia’s Fuel and Energy Sector Under Sanctions: Help or Hindrance?’ during Russian Energy Week (REW 2022).

 

Bondarenko said that the sanctions pressure that unfriendly countries are exerting on Russia today is an attempt to influence the Russian economy, including the fuel and energy industry.

 

“Given the external pressure, crucial decisions were taken at the legislative level to support citizens, businesses, our political and financial systems, and security. And now we can definitely say that such support measures have helped not only to thwart the sanctions, but also to find new ways for the further development of the economy,” she said.

 

The government has adopted a plan of priority actions for which 93% of the regulatory legal framework for their implementation has already been adopted. 

“Decisions have been taken to stabilize the situation on the financial markets, including transitioning to settlements in roubles for Russian gas with unfriendly countries. Since March of this year, inspection procedures have been simplified, including in terms of security in the electric power industry and confirmation of readiness for work in the electric power and heat supply industry. In addition, the administrative burden on businesses has been significantly alleviated as part of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, and the dates for the entry into force of a number of mandatory requirements have been postponed,” she said.

 

More than 20 sectoral support measures have been implemented with the involvement of the Russian Ministry of Energy, and work to this end continues, Bondarenko said.

“The main ones include the right to establish specific terms for accruing, paying, and writing off fines for the failure to fulfil or the improper fulfilment of obligations to pay for resources, penalties against investors in the power generation and power grid sector have been postponed, the commissioning of individual facilities has been postponed, and pricing flexibility has been improved for the effective implementation of investment programmes,” she said.

For more about the REW 2022 business programme, please visit: rusenergyweek.com


02 October 2017 Winners of the third Russian MediaTEK 2017 contest to be awarded during REW 2017

The winners of the Russian contest among the media, the press services of fuel and energy companies, and regional administrations MediaTEK 2017 will be awarded as part of the business programme of the Russian Energy Week international forum on 4–5 October 2017. The contest received roughly 400 works from 55 regions of Russia. The most active regions in terms of the number of applications were the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Krasnodar Territory, Leningrad Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Republic of Tatarstan, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, Kemerovo Region, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. The winner in the ‘Best Press Service’ nomination in the ‘National Fuel and Energy Sector Companies’ category was the company IDGC of the North Caucasus, while the winner in the ‘Regional Fuel and Energy Sector Companies’ category was Tatneft. Siberian Coal Energy Company took first place in the ‘Promotion of Fuel and Energy Sector Professions’ nomination among national companies, while the Kirov branch of T Plus along with the Kirov branch of IDGC of Centre and Volga Region – Kirovenergo took the top spot among regional companies. The contest’s Expert Council also established special prizes, which were awarded to 11 participants in the MediaTEK 2017 competition. The awards will be presented as part of REW 2017 by members of the MediaTEK Expert Council, which includes Russian Minister of Energy Alexander Novak, Deputy Head of the Administration of the Russian President and Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Dean of the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design at the Higher School of Economics Andrey Bystritsky, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University Yelena Vartanova, Interfax Information Agency First Deputy CEO Georgy Gulia, Russian Deputy Minister of Energy Anton Inyutsyn, Russia Today International Information Agency General Director Dmitry Kiselev, Eventica Communications General Director Sergey Kolushev, President of the Global Energy Association for the Development of International Energy Research and Projects Igor Lobovsky, TASS Information Agency General Director Sergey Mikhailov, and Kommersant Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Sergey Yakovlev.

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