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On November 23, 2020, Yury Blagov, Director of the PwC Center for CSR GSOM SPbU, took part in the section Russia - France: Dialogue between Business and NPOs — Expanding the Boundaries of Corporate Volunteering on the IX Moscow International Forum Corporate Volunteering: business and society. The Forum was organized by the Russian Managers Association and the National Council for Corporate Volunteering (NCCV). The international pharmaceutical company Servier was the partner of the section. 

Yury Blagov, Director of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for CSR, as an invited speaker took part in the interregional online marathon "Time of Good Deeds", organized for social entrepreneurs of the Vologda Region, the Komi Republic and the Republic of Karelia. The marathon was initiated by the City Development Agency, established by PJSC Severstal and the Mayor's Office of Cherepovets. 

On November 12, 2020, Yury Blagov, Director of the PWC Center for CSR took part in the VI Academic Fundraising Forum, traditionally held by the Ural Federal University (UrFU). Yury Evgenievich acted as an invited participant in the plenary session "How do impact universities affect the international education ecosystem and corporate ties?". 

Why is business not only obliged, but also compelled to be socially responsible? To what extent a situation of the COVID-19 pandemic is unordinary? Did the category «capitalism» compromise itself and how competition relates to the requirement of entering into cooperation? About all of that we talked with a leader of the academic track «Business in Society» at the international conference «Emerging Markets-2020», Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Corporate Social Responsibility of the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg State University (GSOM SPbU) Yury Blagov.