08 September, 2009

«The Renaissance Moscow Hotel», Moscow

under the auspices of

the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

The Russian Grain Union together with the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies held

XV Annual International Conference Black Sea Grain and Oilseeds 2009/10

«Achieving leadership at world markets»

In the Conference work took part more than 250 representatives from 21 countries worldwide including Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, USA, UAE, Iran, Pakistan and Japan.

The General sponsorship was provided by the Ingosstrakh, sponsorship – by Bunge, SwissRe, Agromekhanizatsiya.

At the first session «Situation at regional grain and oilseeds markets: market conditions and long-term trends» Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Sergey Korolev presented the report covering current state of agriculture and relevant problems of state regulation of Russian grain market in the global economic crisis. There was a report after Deputy Director General of Ingosstrakh Nikolay Galushin as well. The session was closed by the world commodity markets outlook after famous world analyst, President of AgResource Company (USA) Dan Bass.

Among Conference speakers there were Regional Vice-President of the US Wheat Associates Goris van Lit, Director of LMC International Ltd. Simon Bentley, President of the Grain Union of Kazakhstan Nurlan Tleubaev, First Deputy Director General on Strategic development and Corporate communications of Rusagrotrans Oleg Rogachev, General Director of the United Grain Company Sergey Levin, Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia Anatoly Golomolzin, Deputy Head of the Federal Tariff Service of Russia Vitaly Evdokimenko, First Deputy Director of the Russian Railways Sergey Kolesnikov and others.