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Islamic Business and Finance Development Foundation, organizer of the annual international forum, linking economic interests of Russian businessmen and entrepreneurs as well as investors from developed Muslim countries, and the editorial board of Al-Hayat* independent daily newspaper have discussed partnership opportunities.

Islamic Business and Finance Development Foundation, organizer of the annual international forum, linking economic interests of Russian businessmen and entrepreneurs as well as investors from developed Muslim countries, and the editorial board of Al-Hayat* independent daily newspaper have discussed partnership opportunities.

Following the negotiations Al Hayat published in London with its major bureaus in Cairo, Jeddah, Paris, Riyadh, Beirut, Washington and Moscow will act as an information partner of KAZANSUMMIT 2011.

The main objective of KAZANSUMMIT is the development of international economic relations between Russia and the Muslim world, establishment of cooperation in the area of direct investments, relationship building among representatives of different businesses of Russian Federation, CIS, South-East Asia and Middle East countries.

These days KAZANSUMMT will gather international investors, executives of leading financial institutions and the elite of business communities, representatives of legislative and executive authorities of the Russian Federation and its regional leaders, experts and scholars. More than 100 mass media will cover this year’s summit.

Of a print run of 200 thousand copies Al-Hayat employs leading Arab journalists, most of them bilingual or trilingual with extensive working experience in and outside the Arab world, and backs them with an international network of bureaus and correspondents. Its main office staffed by full-time journalists are complemented by correspondents in all Arab and most world capitals.

Bylines on Al-Hayt’s op-ed page are a who’s who of Arab political leaders and analysts, with occasional guest commentators from Europe, the Americas and Russia. Special attention has been given to the paper’s business section. Fed by their own team of correspondents and exclusive access to the material of London’s Financial Times Al-Hayat’s business-and-economy pages, including the Arab world’s only full pages of stock and share listing, have been called "a newspaper within a newspaper”.