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On May 22-26, the second stage of mentoring programme was launched in the frame of the Youth Business Kazakhstan programme (YBK), implemented by MOST business incubator. Boris Tkachenko, CEO of Youth Business Russia and CEO of IBLF Russia and Institute of Mentoring, together with his colleagues at YBK Alim Khamitov and Dinara Babich delivered the seminars for mentors and mentees, organised matching and first matches meetings.

On May 19, the Institute of Mentoring and Yugra Entrepreneurship Support Fund held the workshop “Mentoring as Living, rather than Job” in Surgut, in the framework of the federal Days of Mentoring.

On May 18, mentoring experts Robert Garvey, Boris Tkachenko and Irina Gorelova held the master class and webinar in Google Russia offices designed for experienced mentors, acting and potential mentors on Business Class Programme being implemented by Google and Sberbank.

The brochure “Youth business and Center Invest Bank, success stories. Mentoring” tells about the unique in Russia experience of cooperation between the bank and Youth Business Russia programme designed to provide comprehensive support for young entrepreneurs.

In March 2017, the members of Youth Business International (YBI) have elected Boris Tkachenko as a member of the YBI Strategy Implementation Steering Committee. On the first meeting of the Steering Committee held in April, the Committee members have elected Boris as the first Chairman of the Committee. We believe that in this role, and being the YBI Mentoring Peer Wisdom Group member (on a pro-bono basis) Boris will work even more effectively on promotion of youth business and mentoring not just in Russia but worldwide.

Boris Tkachenko, YBR programme manager and CEO, Institute of Mentoring, was a special guest and a speaker at International Mentoring Summit 'Mentoring Grassroots Entrepreneurs in Smart Grams for Inclusive Growth' on April 4-7 in Delhi. The Summit was timed with the 25th anniversary of youth support activity of Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust's (BYST) - Youth Business International (YBI) member.

Boris Tkachenko, Youth Business Russia (YBR) project manager took part in the master class delivered by Youth Business International (YBI) on March 13-17 in Curitiba, Brazil. The master class was dedicated to comprehensive support for budding entrepreneurs with the focus on training and mentoring.

The session was organized by the Krasnodar Regional Administration and the Federal Youth Agency (Rosmolodezh).

Accenture Russia and IBLF Russia announced the launch of the joint large-scale project within Youth Business Russia (YBR).

On January 23-27, the Yugra Fund for Entrepreneurship Support and the Institute of Mentoring formed the pilot mentor/mentee matches in Surgut. Four seminars and trainings for 20 mentors and 20 mentees were delivered, 17 matches were formed and 16 matches had their first meetings.