OREANDA-NEWS. December 15, 2011. On December 1-2, Ingosstrakh Insurance Company held the 6th annual traditional seminar for regional journalists on "Immediate problems of development of the insurance market at the present stage". Representatives of 105 mass media from 35 Russian cities took part in the event. Journalists from St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, and Samara came to the Moscow office of the company to take part in the seminar. 17 representatives of the federal mass media also visited the event.

For the second year in a row Ingosstrakh Insurance Company held a live webcast of the seminar that anybody could connect regardless of their location and time zone. This year 75 journalists representing different Russian cities from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Kaliningrad connected to an online meeting from their workplaces. For those who were unable to connect to the meeting due to technical problems and left a request in advance, the workplaces were provided directly at the offices of the company in St. Petersburg, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and Vladivostok. The participants of the webinar had an opportunity not only to follow the event live, but also to ask the speakers questions and to receive the answers as promptly as the journalists who present at the hall.

During the seminar, the reporters of the regional business and socio-political media discussed current problems and preliminary results of the year with the leading members of the insurance market and also with the representatives of the state and sectoral associations.

Speeches in front of the press were given by the President of the All-Russian Insurance Association A.S. Kigim, the President of the Russian Union of Autoinsurers P.B. Bunin, the Chairman of the supervisory boards of OJSC “Rosselkhozbank” and Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending I.V. Lomakin-Rumyantsev, the President of the National Union of Liability Insurers A.V. Yuriev, the Director of the Federal Agency of State Support of Insurance in Agroindustrial Production V.V. Scherbakov, the General Manager of Ingosstrakh Insurance Company A.V. Grigoryev, the Deputy General Manager of the "Expert RA" rating agency P.A. Samyev, the press agent of the Russian Union of Travel Industry I.V. Tyurin, deputies of the General Manager of Ingosstrakh Insurance Company I.S. Yamov, N.V. Galushin, T. Yu. Kaigorodova, A.A. Sokolov, and the heads of the departments and offices of the company.

Also, as a part of the seminar program the journalists visited the museum of Ingosstrakh Insurance Company, which opened doors in September. The museum is dedicated to the history of insurance and the company’s activities.