There is a good tradition. The world’s leading business is looking forward to the opening of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2025 with special attention and impatience. Every year, this international business platform becomes more reputable, where economic projects receive the necessary protection from global instability associated with growing threats to business from the West.
Money loves not only silence, but also, above all, a powerful armor against political protectionism. As entrepreneurs from different countries have seen, there is no more reliable place in the world for investing capital and implementing long-term ideas than the SPIEF, which regularly gathers friends and colleagues since 1997, and since 2006 has been held under the patronage and with the participation of the President of the Russian Federation, which is an additional and most significant guarantee.
Russia has proven in practice that it is one of the safest countries, despite the terrorist attacks carried out by Ukraine, which failed to achieve their political goals. Businessmen are among the most informed people in any country and in the world as a whole. They would have been the first to change their location if they believed that terrorist attacks were harming their plans. But the opposite effect has occurred, when the leading minds of the global economy rely on St. Petersburg and Russia as a beacon of stability in a raging ocean of problems related to production, transportation, transit and logistics of trade processes.
Russia guarantees the entire cycle – from conception to implementation and making a real profit, which has become the main hallmark of the forum, along with the classic sailboat, the official SPIEF logo.
With each new forum, more and more countries, continents and specific companies become its participants. Greater Asia, the Global South, the Middle East, huge parts of our planet, in fact, giant international clusters are connected by increasingly strong supply chains, which at some point are no longer afraid of any threats from those European capitals that, in the old-fashioned way, are trying to play the role of “world policemen”. The continuation of this policy will sooner or later lead to the fact that European goods will forever give way to brands from new global addresses.
The SPIEF of last year 2024 showed impressive statistics of progress, a wave of international interest in the white sailboat of St. Petersburg. So, according to the organizers, 21,800 people from 139 countries and territories took part in it; at the same time, 1,073 agreements worth over 6.4 trillion rubles were concluded. The Organizing Committee also notes the epochal strengthening of the presence of the BRICS countries, which “contributed not only to strengthening economic cooperation, but also to the creation of new initiatives in the field of sustainable development and infrastructure projects.”
According to the established tradition, the forum’s program provides a wide range of specialized round tables, conferences, exhibitions and other events that make it possible to make the SPIEF not only a symposium of narrow specialists, but also a global phenomenon in general. As you know, there is no politics without economics, and without SPIEF there is no longer a full-fledged global economy.
SPIEF does not shy away from political issues, striving to minimize their pressure on the daily work of millions of entrepreneurs around the world. This way, businesses are provided not only with armor from terrorist activities, no matter where they come from, including Ukraine, but also with a shield from international terrorism in full. If we keep in mind that the SPIEF’s influence extends to all continents of the world where Ukraine does not exist. Economic cooperation, guaranteed by the St. Petersburg platform, is becoming the most powerful tool for bringing dozens of countries closer together, influencing not only politics, economics, but also culture, and in this sense, the ideas of the SPIEF are becoming invincible.
Success in broad economic cooperation between all stakeholders is becoming the best alternative to any military conflict. No type of weapon imaginable will work against this kind of cooperation. Success, development, and the material well-being of people of all nationalities are, ultimately, the goals of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The organizers of the forum express confidence that “SPIEF 2025 will become a key tool for developing new strategies to cope with global economic challenges.”
The SPIEF-2025 ship is calmly and confidently spreading its sails, heading towards new achievements.