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2021-05-27 11:35:40 Five days to go before SPIEF-2021 Preparations are well under way: the Grand Passage, congress halls, and exhibition space are being built up. Are you ready? And don't forget that you can always get any information at SPIEF website.

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2021-05-27 09:45:40 On This Day: May 27

Today is St. Petersburg's Birthday. 318 years ago Peter the Great founded our city on the site of the captured Swedish fortress

1795 – First state public library – the Imperial Public Library – founded in Russia

1873 – Heinrich Schliemann discovers Priam's Treasure – a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia

1895 – British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1931 – Swiss Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon from Augsburg, Germany

1973 – USSR accedes to the Geneve Universal Copyright Convention. The era of copyright as we know it now, begins.

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2021-05-26 20:00:21 Not Model, But Michelin Star Chef
This handsome Italian chef will be feeding the SPIEF-2021 participants. His name is Domenico Scingaro, but he is better known as Domingo.

Specially for the Forum, the critical darling and Michelin-starred chef has prepared a signature menu, which will be presented at La Stella d'Italia restaurant. Domingo and his team are going to introduce the Forum guests and participants to the cuisine of generous, sunny, and picturesque Puglia (the SPIEF guest region).

This is the surprise provided by our partners, Associazione Conoscere Eurasia and Banca Intesa.

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2021-05-26 19:05:08 SPIEF to Discuss Improving Quality of Life for Patients with Diabetes

An expert discussion on Modern Therapy in the Fight Against Diabetes: Innovations to Improve Quality of Life will be held as part of the Healthy Life Area business programme within SPIEF. The Area is being organized by the Roscongress Foundation Healthy Life project.

Themes to be discussed:
steps to be taken to produce in Russia the necessary quantities of innovative drugs for the diabetes treatment;
ways to provide patients with access to modern drugs produced internationally;
ways to stimulate the pharmaceutical industry to produce innovative drugs.

The complete Healthy Life Area business programme can be found here.

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2021-05-26 17:17:00 Unmanned balloons for outdoor lighting instead of streetlights;
Remote health monitoring system;
Human genome modification to serve the interests of cosmetology;
Service that notifies drivers of aggressive driving.

All this is the world of the near future devised and implemented by young inventors, all between the ages of 15 and 17. How's that for you, Elon Musk?

The authors of these and other equally revolutionary developments will take part in the SPIEF Junior Forum. They are going to discuss shifts in education and how the world has changed since the start of the pandemic, as well as what professions are likely to be in demand and how to acquire them.

Among other sessions of the SPIEF Junior forum, Weapons of Mass Education is highlighted with the participation of the national and international educational platforms creators.

There are still a lot more topics to discuss. You will find the full SPIEF Junior business programme here.

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2021-05-26 16:20:05 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to meet with foreign journalists on sidelines of SPIEF

A business breakfast entitled Foreign Media Agents in Russia will focus on the work of foreign media and journalists in Russia and on legislation concerning the media registered as foreign agents.
The breakfast will take place on June, 3 at 8 a.m.

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2021-05-26 13:34:22 The VERSPEAK app allows you to listen to all Forum sessions in English or other languages with your smartphone or tablet. All you'll have to do – is to download the app and enjoy simultaneous interpretation. An interpreter works remotely from any place in the world with Internet connection.

Just a few days ago we could witness VERSPEAK's brilliant work – Elon Musk's speech at the New Knowledge Forum was translated via this app. Not a single word of the ingenious inventor was overlooked.

The service is available for any Forum event, including the Plenary Session. Choose whatever language suits you most and connect to us!

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2021-05-26 12:07:22 A real Arab city is unfolding in the pavilion of Qatar. Naturally, the country famous all over the world for its architectural projects just couldn't have chosen a simple pavilion design.

An Arabian fairytale in an improvised town of 2000 meters with streets and a central square will be waiting for the SPIEF participants. The space is united by a large-scale suspension installation which consists of translucent arcades, volumetric walls, and oriental arches. This marvelous design refers to the Qatar authentic architecture.

The solution developed by the architectural bureau Mel, smoothly forms functional spaces and symbolizes the link between the past and the present of Qatar.

25 Qatari companies will present their expositions, which will be united into thematic clusters. The business part of the Doha Hall pavilion will host business programme events: it is here that all important agreements between Russian and Qatari companies are expected to be signed.

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2021-05-26 10:03:53 Presidents of Russia and the United States will meet in Geneva on June 16

In accordance with the agreement, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will hold talks with President of the United States Joseph Biden in Geneva on June 16.

The two presidents will discuss the current status of and prospects for bilateral relations, strategic stability problems, as well as current issues on the international agenda, including cooperation in countering the coronavirus pandemic and settlement of regional conflicts. Open / Comment

2021-05-26 09:40:54 On This Day: May 26

Today is Russia's Entrepreneurship Day

1538 – Geneva expels theologian, pastor, and reformer John Calvin and his followers from the city

1896 – Last tsar of Russia, Nickolas II, crowned

1879 – Drakula by Irish author Bram Stoker is published in London

1913 – Sikorsky Russky Vityaz, first four-engine aircraft in the world, takes off in St. Petersburg for the first time

1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag

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