UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 10, 2017. The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) sent a thank-you letter to Vice President of the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry Igor Aristov to express its gratitude for the CCI’s contribution to improvements in the national business climate, the Chamber’s press service reports.

The South Urals CCI has helped to estimate the current parameters of mechanisms aimed to make business procedures easier and to enhance the national constituencies’ investment appeal.

The letter states that the Chamber’s experts’ reports and comments serve as supporting arguments in negotiations between federal-level work teams and local authorities, help to single out the parts of Russia that are doing well and those that are lagging behind, and thus support the best practices and their promotion nationwide.

This year, the Chamber did its estimates in April and July; yet another round will get coordinated in September and October. The findings will be presented at the Russian Federation State Council Committee meeting in November or December 2017; the meeting will be chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.