Vladimir Kilinkarov and Evgeniy Druzhinin took part in an infrastructure congress the Russian Public Private Partnership Week

The second infrastructure congress the Russian Private Public Partnership Week was held in Moscow March 17-20. This congress is the largest platform for cooperation of business and state tailored to demonstrate the best PPP implementation practices in various services-producing industries for the purposes of their subsequent implementation in all the constituent territories of the Russian Federation. Under the aegis of the "week" there were held plenary sessions, round tables, panel discussions concerning support of the existing PPP market, development of PPP infrastructure and prospects for launching new projects in current volatile economic situation.

As part of highly topical congress programme legal debate PPP Legislative Regulation: Tendencies and Trends turned out to be of extreme interest for the congress participants. The core discussion focused on the prospects of application of private initiative during the implementation of concession agreements. Vladimir Kilinkarov, a partner of Maxima Legal law firm and the head of public private partnership practice took part in the discussion and told about current PPP regulation problems related to the introduction of necessary amendments to legislation and enactment of the federal PPP law. The legal debate and ranking presentation has already become a traditional event of the Russian PPP Week.

This congress is the only event on this scale dedicated to the PPP market in Russia, hosting both representatives of governmental authorities and leading market players, permitting them to discuss problems, ways to solve them and subsequent development of PPP infrastructure.