Media partners

TASS is Russia’s premier and oldest official news agency, established in 1904. Renowned as the most frequently cited Russian media outlet abroad and the leading news service within Russia as of 2025, according to Medialogiya, TASS plays a pivotal role in global information dissemination.

The agency produces approximately 3,000 news items daily, available in the six official United Nations languages, alongside around 1,000 photo and video reports covering events across Russia and worldwide. Subscribers benefit from access to 70 diverse news feeds and specialized thematic services.

Unique among global media outlets, TASS maintains the only permanent bureau on the International Space Station.

Its extensive network includes regional information centers in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Pyatigorsk, Vladivostok, Rostov-on-Don, and Kaliningrad, complemented by 66 bureaus across Russia and 59 offices in 54 countries. This infrastructure ensures rapid reception and dissemination of information to a broad international audience.

TASS’s media bank boasts over 70 million pieces of content, featuring 1.2 million historical images dating back to the early 20th century and more than 1 million stock photos and videos.

The agency has established partnerships with over 200 media outlets spanning 112 countries, reinforcing its global reach and influence.

Saint Petersburg TV channel, the city’s principal media resource, has been a media partner of the Forum for many years.

For 16 years the channel has preserved and built on the traditions of intelligent Leningrad and Petersburg television journalism. Its daily programmes keep in close touch with the audience: they guide viewers through city life, reinforce the idea of Saint Petersburg’s distinctive character and draw attention to its culture and to how comfortable it is for those who live here.

Saint Petersburg TV channel — the life of the city live on air.

MIC Izvestia is the first multimedia information center in Russia. MIC Izvestia includes Internet news portal IZ.ru, 24/7 news channel Izvestia (IZ.RU), Izvestia newspaper, Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, the news services of REN TV channel and Channel Five, and regional TV Channel 78. MIC Izvestia is a multi-purpose platform for generating multi-format information content (TV, print, online).

Monthly online audience of MIC Izvestia is about 100 mln people, TV audience — 85 mln people. MIC Izvestia is constantly getting into the top 5 news online sources according to LiveInternet.

The newspaper Vedomosti, published by Business News Media JSC, has for 25 years confirmed its indisputable authority on the market of leading economic and business media in Russia.

Vedomosti is a reliable and up-to-date newspaper that focuses on companies’ news and markets and allows the readers to make their own opinion on all issues of the economy and business processes, macroeconomic development and the influence of political factors on them; it is an objective and relevant analytical information for managers and decision-makers, expert commentary on issues of concern to the business community, interviews with contemporary figures in their fields. Vedomosti’s editorial policy fully meets the demands of its readers for deliberated, analytical, and objective coverage of events in both business and political areas.

Top managers and business owners constitute the major part of Vedomosti’s audience (49%), which proves the high standards of business reporting.

Apart from the newspaper and the web-page (www.vedomosti.ru), Vedomosti includes a wide range of standalone projects and supplements.

Kommersant is the first private business publication in Russia. It is one of the oldest publishing houses and one of the most authoritative and influential media structures in the country. Its core principles are promptness, reliability, and objectivity.

The media assets of the Publishing House Kommersant include: the daily newspaper Kommersant, the magazine Kommersant WEEKEND, the monthly automotive magazine Kommersant AVTOPILOT, a line of glossy supplements Kommersant STYLE covering news and trends in fashion and lifestyle, a range of industry-specific and event-related supplements to the newspaper, and the radio station Kommersant FM.

The expertise of Kommersant is trusted by top managers in state-owned companies, top executives in business, and the intellectual elite.

RG Media is a media holding with a 35-year history, delivering prompt and reliable coverage of the most significant federal, regional and international events 24/7. News, reports, exclusive interviews and commentary from state officials and influential figures in the country’s business, political and cultural life — in every digital format and in print.

Gazeta.Ru is a socio-political online media outlet and one of the three most quoted internet resources in Russia (Medialogia, 2023). The publication not only covers the Russian and global agenda around the clock, but also shapes it with its own exclusive stories. It is part of the Rambler&Co media holding.

Lenta.ru is Russia’s largest federal online publication. It is among the five most quoted media outlets in Russia (Medialogia, 2023) and one of the most viral media of the Russian-speaking internet (Brand Analytics, 2023). A repeat winner of the Runet Prize and a finalist of TEFI-Multimedia and a number of other industry awards and competitions. It is part of the Rambler&Co media holding.

1MI is a diversified communications holding that runs several federal publications and one of Russia’s largest regional networks of socio-political online media.

Today the holding has assets in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Stavropol, Mineralnye Vody, Krasnodar, Vladikavkaz, Ufa, Izhevsk, Kazan, Petrozavodsk, Vladivostok, Rostov-on-Don, Omsk, Tyumen, Volgograd, Orenburg, Belgorod, Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Abakan, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Perm.

The monthly audience of the holding’s resources exceeds 300 million views and 20 million visitors. 1MI is also growing as a full-cycle communications agency and provides the complete range of PR services. For five years running the holding has led the market in working with news aggregators.

Peterburgsky Dnevnik is the flagship project of Petrocenter JSC and has been published since 2003. It is the most widely circulated socio-political newspaper in Saint Petersburg.

The paper comes out daily and is distributed free of charge in Saint Petersburg metro stations, public service centres, government bodies, social infrastructure facilities, outpatient clinics, large city enterprises, trams and buses, as well as in Pervaya Polosa press shops and One Price Coffee outlets.

• 150,000 copies — the daily print run.
• 75% of the print run is distributed in the metro.
• 164,400 people — the readership of a single issue.
• No. 1 for citation among print media of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region (according to Medialogia).

Nashe Nasledie (Our Heritage) is the renewed version of a magazine with a thirty-year history. The relaunch of this legendary title in 2025 became one of the notable events in the country’s cultural life: the magazine returned to its readers in a radically updated, contemporary format. The 2025 Nashe Nasledie has moved away from academic stasis — today it is a dynamic media platform where classical art history and museum studies naturally intertwine with the creative industries, with features and interviews on contemporary architecture, private and corporate collecting, advanced restoration technologies and much more.

The renewed magazine has significantly widened its geographical and intellectual scope, becoming an expert guide to the cultural life of the whole of Russia — from the Baltic to the Pacific. Nashe Nasledie makes a convincing case that national cultural heritage is not a frozen archive but living, relevant capital that shapes the image of our country’s future.

Snob is a media project about people and phenomena, trends and changes in the world. It was founded in 2008 around a club of intellectuals whose interests span cultural, personal and business development.

The participants of the Snob project are divided neither by geography, nor by degree of fame, nor by age, nor by differences of belief. Whatever they do and wherever they live, they are united by an interest in the world around them and a readiness to act to make that world better.