A 2-week course offered in Moscow by the International Academy of Entrepreneurship

Moscow for businessmen, traders, and financiers. Organized and led by Professor Fred Eidlin, Department of Political Studies, University of Guelph, Director of the Waterloo-Laurier-Guelph Centre for East European and Russian Studies.

The main aims of the course are to present knowledge, know-how and information, and to assist in the formation of personal links, necessary to foreign businessmen and financiers entering the Russian market.

Instruction takes place from Monday to Friday, 5 hours per day. The course consists of general lectures aimed at all participants, as well as study in small groups, put together according to professional interests.

Participants will visit Moscow enterprises, Government ministries and institutions of the Russian Federation.

Representatives of central economic institutions of the Russian Federation, who will give lectures and take part in round tables and seminars.

Participants will have the opportunity to meet with these individuals personally. Russian businessmen will also participate in the programme.

The program includes a variety of social cultural and athletic activities. Participants will have access to a finnish sauna and athletic facilities.

Accommodations in comfortable rooms in Hotel Sveeblovo. Meals provided in the private restaurant located in Hotel Sveeblovo.

LECTURE TOPICS:

• National characteristic of market economy formation in Russia.
• Organizational structure of national economy management in Russia.
• Programmes of Russian economic stabilization and development.
• The current situation in Russia after the presidential election.
• Law on small and medium-sized enterprises, and prospects for Development of small business.
• Participation of North American businessmen and financiers in the,creation of small enterprise incubators on the territory of Russia.
• The work of a foreign enterprise and joint ventures on the territory of Russia.
• Procedures for establishment of a joint venture and the juridical bases for their functioning.
• Overview of positive and negative experience of joint venture activities in Russia.
• Regulations concerning export of profit.
• The accounting system in Russia and how it differs from the North American system.
• "Big" and "small" privatization.
• Information on implementation of the Programme of State enterprise privatization.
• Redemption of a State enterprise and it's valuation.
• Social problems of privatization: finance sources, nominal privatization accounts and deposits.
• The role of the local authorities and municipalities in denationalization and privatization.
• Opportunities for participation of North American businessmen, financiers and state institutions in process of privatization in Russia.
• The customs-tariff mechanism in the system of state regulation of external economic links.
• Declaration of goods.
• Financial markets: The capital loan market.
• The securities market.
• The money-market.
• Problems in the formation and functioning of the securities market in Russia.
• Main trends in credit and monetary reform in Russia.
• The federal system of contracts in Russia.
• Establishment of prices under conditions of emerging market relations in Russia.
• Transport and communication services on Russian territory.
• Sources of business information: republican, regional and branch systems of information.
• Regional characteristics of entrepreneurship in Russia.
• The seamy side of an economy in transition.

MEETINGS WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM BUSINESS AND
GOVERNMENT

• Lecture by a representative of the Russian Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations.
• Round table with representatives of business circles and authorities from several regions of Russia.
• Discussions between Russian and North American businessmen in small groups according to interests.
• Meeting with Canadian diplomats from the Commercial Section of the Canadian Embassy in Moscow.
• Meeting with representatives of Canadian businesses active in Russia.

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL

• Tours of The Golden Ring of Russia and to Serguiev Possad (great centre of Russian Orthodox church, Monastery of XVI century).
• Sightseeing tour around Moscow.
• Visit to orthodox churches.
• Evening visit to the theatre.
• Welcome and farewell parties at restaurant "Sveeblovo".

Cost: Canadian $3500 + group air fare (approximately Canadian $1000)

APPLICATION FORM
Name:
Address:
Phone: Fax:
E-mail:
Company name:
Type of business:
Nature of interest in the Russian market:

Send application to: Professor Fred Eidlin, Department of Political Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1. Phone: 519-824-4120, ext. 3469. Fax: 519-837-9561. E-mail: feidlin@uoguelph.ca.