The World Political Forum in Yaroslavl should not turn into a PR event but should help resolve important modernization issues, a member of the Russian Public Chamber said on Thursday.

The Forum will be held in Yaroslavl, 250 km northeast of Moscow, on September 9-10. It will have four sections: the State as an Instrument of Technological Modernization, Democracy Standards and Diversified Democracy Experience, New Challenges and the Concept of International Law; and Regional Systems of Global Security.

“Our task is no make the Yaroslavl forum not a PR event but a working meeting that considers serious problems like the Davos forum,” said Valery Fadeyev, the moderator of the first section.

He called the Yaroslavl meeting “a forum of justice,” adding that it should boost the development of countries that want to develop.

Speaking about Russia’s development, Fadeyev said the Skolkovo research hub project was “the first step toward modernization.”

“This project forced the government to make important political and economic decisions,” he added.

MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti)