Elena Yatsenko, President of the Eurasia Heritage Foundation, and Elena Kozievskaya, Director for Development, took part in the International Forum of the CIS Business Leaders «Innovations are the Development Strategy».

The event was organized by the CIS Executive Committee, the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the CIS Economic Development Business Center, and the CIS Financial and Banking Council. 

The Forum's goals are to assist to the implementation of the CIS Economic Development Strategy until 2020, the innovative development and economic integration, the search for the promising projects in the CIS, and the business leaders awarding. 

Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the CIS Economic Council, Sergei Lebedev, Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Secretary of the CIS, Evgeny Primakov, President of Russia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Andrey Kobyakov, member of the CIS Economic Council, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, Armen Gevorkyan, member of the CIS Economic Council, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Armenia's Territorial Management, Anatoly Kinakh, Chairman of the Council of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Andrey Kostin, Chairman of the Board of the Open Joint Stock Company VTB Bank, President of the CIS Financial and Banking Council, and others addressed the Forum.