The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), a lobby group based in Moscow, promotes the interests of business in Russia.

It has over 1,000 members, including both private and state-owned companies, factories, and foreign and Russian plants.

The RSPP represents the successor in the Russian Federation of the previous USSR scientific and industrial union[1] founded in the summer of 1990.

[3] He was succeeded by Aleksandr Shokhin, vice-premier of Russia from 1991 to 1994, and subsequently a Duma deputy for eight years.

At a meeting of the lobby in July 2009, telecommunications executives portrayed the most popular VoIP programs like Skype and ICQ as encroaching foreign entities that the government must control.