Business Russia is an All-Russia Public Organization which represents the interests of private non-resource businesses – local industry leaders.
The organization was founded in 2001 and unites more than 7 thousand entrepreneurs and more than 400 deputies of federal and regional parliaments in Russia. The total number of employees at the enterprises of Business Russia is about 3 million people and the total annual revenue of companies owned or headed by Business Russia members is estimated at 2.8 trillion rubles. Business Russia is represented in all 85 regions of the Russian Federation.
The organization provides the platform to discuss the development of various branches of the non-resource sector, solve the current problems, establish a dialogue between state executive bodies and the business community. For this purpose, Business Russia has 28 industry committees and an Expert Chamber that forms the business association's positions on strategic, macroeconomic, intersectoral, and socially significant issues of non-resource business development in Russia.