OREANDA-NEWS. 13th November was the last day of the hands-on workshops on Administrative Law: “Proceedings on Administrative Cases Subordinate to FAS”.

The Head of the Department for Financial Markets Control, Olga Sergeeva, Deputy Head of Legal Department, Alexei Kryukov, and Deputy Head of the Department for Financial Markets Control, Irina Smirnova, took part in the work-shops organized under the Agreement on Cooperation between the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia).

Classes are organized by the base Department - “the Federal Antimonopoly Service” at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.

“Our objective is to train highly-skilled staff that will be result-oriented under the conditions of free choice and freedom of economic activity and for whom restricted competition is an unacceptable state of the market, undermining the basis of market relations”, pointed out Olga Sergeeva

“The Federal Antimonopoly Service” Department was opened in September 2012 in accord with the decision of the Academic Council of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation of 3 July 2012 (No.25 Protocol) and is the base Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service at the Financial University. Establishing the Department is the result of productive cooperation between the Financial University and FAS under the Agreement on Cooperation signed on 25th November 2011.

The scope of Department capabilities is directly related to the capabilities of FAS and its regional bodies, which allow moving to a new quality of cooperation under the framework of the Agreement, the main result of which will be training highly skilled specialists on competition policy.

The Department objectives are determined by FAS and the Financial University based on the needs to train skilled staff in the field of antimonopoly regulation, where lawyers and economists are equally in demand.

The main objective of the Department is to form an understanding of free competition as an integral condition for efficient market performance, increasing consumer well-being and competitiveness of Russian economy.

The Head of the Department is Andrey Kashevarov, Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, a holder of a doctorate degree in Economics, a Merited Economist of the Russian Federation.