Registration for the "Russia is a Sporting Power" has started

Registration to participate in the upcoming "Russia is a Sporting Power" forum has started.

You can register on the event's official website.

More detailed information can be found by contacting the forum's press office: 8 (903) 162-96-97, 8 (495) 640-88-50 (Elena Rozhkova), press@s-f-r.ru.

The international forum will take place in Kazan, Tatarstan between the 8th and 10th of September.

It is being held in accordance with the order of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. The organisers of the forum are the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Since the forum was first taged in Kazan in 2009, it has since taken place in Moscow, Saransk, Yakutsk, Cheboksary, Dobrograd, Ulyanovsk and Nizhny Novgorod. It is traditionally attended by top state officials, federal executive bodies, heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, heads of international and all-Russian sporting federations, representatives of large business structures, famous athletes, industry experts and leaders of the sporting industry.

The main venue of the forum will be the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre, which is one of the largest congress complexes in Russia.