OREANDA-NEWS. The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) is ready to act as a platform for cooperation between UK business and Russian export-oriented technology enterprises. This was announced on Wednesday by ASI Director General Svetlana Chupsheva at the site of the V Russian-British Business Forum in London.

"We are ready to act as a platform for cooperation between the British business and our Russian technology companies, which could export and create new business, joint ventures, organizations", she said at the session "Foreign economic priorities of Russia and the UK in the new conditions". Chupsheva noted that ASI already has a number of technological developments and startups for industrial enterprises, which the agency selected as the project office of the President of the Russian Federation in 2019. “Today we have a serious plan for such projects”, she stressed.

The main topic of the RBBF-2019, organized by the Russian trade mission in the UK together with the Roscongress Foundation, was Digital Infrastructure and Industries. The event is attended by 1,000 British and Russian representatives of business, government, development institutions and international organizations.