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The First All-Russian Forum of Live Cities was organized in Izhevsk on May 21-23, 2014. Practice leaders, developing cities, and leading experts from 6 countries got together to discuss principles of the cities’ integral development, share their experience and develop new cooperation tools.The forum was organized on the crowdsourcing and crowd funding principles – thanks to joint efforts of all the participants and partners.
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The II Flying Elephant Media Conference was held in the capital city of the Volga District. On May 19-21, Students studying journalism and PR gathered at N.Novgorod Kremlin-based Arsenal National Center for Contemporary Arts to meet the PR guru and media experts to discuss process of development and interaction of the two communities. AGT-Privolzhye Communications Agency organized the conference. While the initiator of the event was Viktoria Azarova, journalist and editor of Decom publishing house from Nizhny Novgorod.
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Hong Kong: On May 23-25, in Hong Kong, PROI Worldwide, the world’s leading partnership of independent public relations consultancies, represented in Russia and the CIS by the AGT Communications Group,conducted the company’s annual international and regional meeting of partners. Representatives of 65 partner organizations from 55 countries have gathered in one of the most prolific Asian cities with the goal of projecting its aggressive initiative to further expand its presence in South-East Asia.  

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Moscow. On May 24, in Lisbon, there was held the II International Children’s Forum, organized within the framework of the FOOTBALL FOR FRIENDSHIP global social project of Gazprom. The event was attended by more than 450 children and teenagers from 16 European countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, UK, and Ukraine. 

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Trip Advisor, one of the world’s biggest tourist portals, published 2014 Traveler Сhoice ranking where the Russian cities are represented. Global Top-25 Tourist Destinations list features St. Petersburg moving from 20 to 16 place. Among the Top-25 European Destinations Moscow kept its 22nd place, while St. Petersburg moved up to the 9^th from its 10^th place.

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In late April, in Volgograd region, under the aegis of the Russian Federal Tourism Agency (Rostourism) there was held interregional meeting “Monotowns Wait for Tourists”. Vladislav Shulayev, Territorial promotion Director of the AGT Communications Agency, presented a report on Russian experience in the field of tourist promotion of industrial territories and offered some recommendations for the cities in Vologda region in the field of communications. Read more »

AGT Communications Group, representing interests of PROI Worldwide, the leading international network of independent communications agencies, in Russia and the CIS, announces the network positions in Europe, Asia and North Africa. Stratëus Group (Morocco), Huntington Communications (Singapore) and Gullers Grupp (Sweden) have joined PROI Worldwide. Read more »

On Apri 23, in St. Petersburg, there was held first International Scietific Conference "Strategic Communications in Business and Politics". The scientific event was initiated by the Business PR Department of the St. Petersburg State University,headed by Dmitry Gavra, Professor, PhD in Social Sciences. The Higher School  of Journalism and Mass Communications of the St. Petersburg State University was orginizer of the event. Read more »

On April 16, 2014 Sika, one of the leaders in construction chemicals production, organized and conducted a press lunch for journalsis, representing business and industry-specific media. The company's results of the first quarter of 2014 and further localization of production capabilitesin Russia turned to be the major focus of the event. The press lunch was attended by top level officials of Sika Russia: CEO Sergey Zyuzya, CFO Sergey Berezovka and CTO Anton Nosov. Read more »

April 24, Moscow – Yekaterinburg. AGT Agency conducted a workshop “Natural-gas-based motor fuel: communications models to work with target audiences”, ordered by the Gazprom Information Policy Department. The event has become the seventh in a series of similar events covering various aspects of communications activities of the Gazprom Group companies. Read more »

“Every year, for the period of several weeks, the subject of тема USE (Unified State Examination) emerges at the foreground for millions of families in our country. The situation center format has turned to be an obvious response to social demand to make USE more transparent and clear, - says Nadezhda Malkina, AGT Social Communications Director. Read more »

The TGC-1 project, implemented with the participation of AGT Communications Agency, has won a prestigious ConTECst Award. The contest laureates – media and press services of Russian fuel & energy complex enterprises for 2013 received their awards in Moscow. JSC TGC-1 won the prize as the Best Image PR Project of the Fuel & Energy Complex for the work called “Grand finale of the Vuoksinskiye HPP Cascade reconstruction process”. Read more »

On April 12, the Total Dictation, a world Russian language quiz was conducted in different countries of the world. Participants across all the continents wrote a text that Alexey Ivanov, a famous Russian author, had prepared specially for this event. More than 300 cities around the world participated in the event. Voluntary dictation in Russian stretched through 20 time zones. Read more »

On March 27, in Moscow there was conducted a Russian presentation of Nokia X smartphone line working with Android apps. The event was conducted in the Chertkov Mansion – historical building in the heart of Moscow. The event concept surprised its guests by being innovative and non-standard. Read more »

On April 8, 2014, the Economics Department of the Moscow State University hosted opening ceremony of the V Forum of the Russian Regions. Vladislav Shulaev, Territorial Promotion Director at the AGT Communications Agency, participated in the round table “Marketing Potential of the Regions. How to make a region successful?” Read more »

On April 1-2, there was conducted VII All-Russian Mass Communications Festival "PR Days in Yakutia”, attended by the Republic authorities, Yakutsk city officials, representatives of scientific and PR communities of the Republic, Far East, Siberia, as well as Moscow, St. Petersburg and foreign countries. The Yakutia forum is becoming one of the leading communications events in Eastern Russia. Read more »

31 march 2014. Moscow - Gazprom, the official sponsor of the UEFA Champions League, has doubled the number of countries participating in the FOOTBALL FOR FRIENDSHIP international children’s social project for 2014. This year, players from youth football teams aged 12 to 14 will participate in the project, representing 16 countries. Read more »

Journalists representing leading Russian media took part in a global event organized by Sika – conference for media and financial analysts in Switzerland, timed to coincide with presentation of the 4th quarter results and 2013 in general. Media tour has become a part of a bigger campaign aimed at expansion of Sika presence in Russia. Read more »

On March 22, within the framework of the World Day for Water, AGT Communications Agency organized a press lunch with Dmitry Kirillov, Head of the Department for State Policy and Regulation in Water Industry of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources. The event, conducted at the Reka restaurant, was attended by journalists representing leading federal media. Read more »

On March 17, II International Contest “The Best Foreign Teacher of Russian Language and Literature” was launched. Registration of the participants will be organized at the contest official web page www.russian-lang.ru. The event is initiated and organized by Rossotrudnichestvo within the framework of the federal target program “Russian Language in 2011-2015. AGT Communication Agency provides for conducting of the contest and press center operation.

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