Agenda and notes

Opening Speech by Ms. Sally Shelton-Colby, OECD Deputy Secretary General  

Issues in Corporate Governance and Disclosure in Russia by Dmitry Glazunov, Commissioner, Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM)

Accounting Reform Issues in Russia by Mikhail Motorin, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Finance

Financial Transparency and Corporate Governance by Andrey Sharonov, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade

Audit reform in Russia by Andrey Petrov, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Finance

Enforcement Problems Relating to Existing Information Disclosure Legislative Requirements by Tatyana Medvedeva, Senior Advisor, and Alexei Timofeyev, Adviser, Center for Capital Market Development Foundation

Role of the exchanges in the disclosure of non-financials by Sergey Rodionov, Vice-President, Russian Trading System (RTS)

Role of the Exchanges in Setting Corporate Governance Standards by Mikhail Laufer, Member of Executive Board-Director Equities & Bonds Market, Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX)

Role of Self-Regulatory Organizations in Improving Channels for Information Disclosure by Ivan Tyryshkin, Chairman of Executive Board, National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR)

On Information Disclosure Limits after Bringing a Bankruptcy Action Against a Joint Stock Company by Oleg Naumov, Chief of the Analytical Department for Court Practice, Supreme Arbitrazh Court

Practices of Non-Executive Directors in Russian Companies by Oleg Fedorov, Member of the Management Board, National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR)

Practical Difficulties in Introducing Audit Committees in a Russian Company by Alexander Semeniaka, Member of the Management Board, Director of the Long-Term Financing and Securities Department, OAO Gazprom

Practical Difficulties in Introducing Audit Committees in a Russian Company by Alexander Kolesnikov, Head of Investor Relations Department, OAO UES

Information Disclosure and the Existing Practice of Corporate Governance in this Sphere by Alexander Ikonnikov, Executive Director, Investors Protection Association, Russia

Efforts by the Czech Securities Commission to Improve Disclosure by Tomas Jezek, Czech Securities Commission

Boards and the Audit Function by Leo Goldschmidt, Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee, European Association of Securities Dealers (EASD)

Roundtable Summary Notes

Corporate reform in Russia and the former Soviet Union: the first ten years by Stilpon Nestor, Head, Corporate Affairs Division, Presentation at the conference held by the Vienna Institute, November 2000

Mass Media Information

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