In an exclusive interview, Ilya Smirnov, Director of the Insurance Market Department of the Bank of Russia, summed up the preliminary results of 2025 for the insurance industry, spoke about the impact of the planned increase in regulatory requirements and the adaptation of insurers to work under sanctions restrictions.

Summing up the results of 2025, the Russian Society for Risk Management Risk Management Association demonstrates confident development and adaptation to new challenges. In 2025, RusRisk continued to work on developing risk management in the country and strengthening the company’s position as a national professional association of risk managers. 

As part of the RusRisk project “Laboratory of a Young Risk Manager”, the 7th student Conference of undergraduates and postgraduates representing several leading Russian universities (MGIMO, MSU, RANEPA, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, etc.) was held in a mixed format on December 4, 2025 at the MGIMO Department of Risk Management and Insurance.

On November 26, Yekaterinburg hosted the URAL 2025 RISK FORUM, an event that brought together representatives of the industry and the insurance community. The forum is dedicated to strategies for the sustainability of industrial enterprises in the face of growing geopolitical tensions, new technological threats and changes in the regulatory environment.

   On November 24, 2025, the work of the permanent seminar of the Russian Society for Risk Management “Current issues of insurance protection for large industrial companies” will continue at the site of the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

On November 6, 2025, a professional retraining program for experts in the field of corporate insurance was launched at VSK University. The training will take place in 2025-2026.

On October 1-3, 2025, the President of RusRisk participated in the Conference of the Institute of Risk Management of South Africa (IRMSA) and the meeting of the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Risk Management and Insurance Associations (IFRIMA).

November 13–14, 2025, Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, with the participation of the Association of Risk Management “Russian Risk Management Society,” the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Management of St. Petersburg State University of Economics, InfoTeKS JSC, and Institute “Stroyproyekt” JSC, will hold the 11th Applied Research Conference with international participation RISK MANAGEMENT: NEW CHALLENGES, ISSUES, AND SOLUTIONS RISK’E‑2025

On December 10, Moscow will host the Eighth conference “Risk Management in Industry”, organized by the Prosperity Media Group and the portal CFO-Russia.ru .

The main topic of the XXII RusRisk Professional Forum, held on September 4-5, 2025 in Sochi, was the discussion of new challenges and prospects for the development of risk management in Russia.

The path to awareness: risk management in Russia and abroad.

The participants of the round table, held on 06/10/2025 in Moscow, having discussed key issues related to international cooperation, adaptation strategies, socio-economic impact of climate change, insurance mechanisms and scientific and methodological support for climate risk assessment, note: …

We are pleased to present to your attention a study of the maturity of risk management
in Russian companies for 2025, conducted by the DRT Group with the support of the Russian Society for Risk Management Association of Risk Managers. We would like to thank all the respondents and experts who participated in the study.

On June 3, 2025, an eventful seminar “Risk Management: emphasis on risk culture and digitalization of processes” was held in the cozy office of the DRT on White Square with the support and participation of RusRisk. The participants exchanged views on the issues of assessing the maturity and degree of digitalization of risk management in Russian companies.

On June 10, 2025, a round table on “Climate Risks and their impact on the Sustainable Development of the Subjects of the Russian Federation”, organized by the Federal State Budgetary Institution VNII GOCHS (FC) in cooperation with the Russian Society for Risk Management (RusRisk), will be held in Auditorium No501 from 10:00 to 14:00), the MGIMO Center for Sustainable Development and the All-Russian Union of Insurers (VSS).

On May 22-23, 2025, the XVII Corporate Insurance Conference was held in St. Petersburg at the Talion Imperial Hotel.
The conference was attended by representatives of major industrial companies, major brokers, insurance companies, RNPC and other participants in the insurance market (surveyors, appraisers, adjusters, etc.).

On June 3, 2025, DRT will present two studies conducted in Russia in 2025: the first is devoted to assessing the maturity of risk management in non-financial companies (together with RusRisk), the second is on digitalization of risk management and internal control processes in organizations. We invite you to join the seminar!

In early May 2025, the President of RusRisk participated in the conference and exhibition of the American-Canadian Association of Risk Management and Insurance in Chicago.