The international congress "Trust and Security in the Information Society" was held in Tavricheski Palace in St. Petersburg on April 21^st -22^nd , which was attended by General Director of "Southern Telecommunications Company" PJSC Vladimir Gorbachev, Deputy General Director Vladislav Statuyev, Head of PR department Katerina Zorkina and representatives of "UTK" PJSC branches.

The congress was organized by the CIS Inter-parliamentary Assembly under the slogan "Towards the World summit on information society" and sponsored by the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Communication and Informatics and Regional Community in Telecommunications (RSS).

Organizational committee of the congress was co-headed by the Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, member of the Board of the CIS Inter-parliamentary Assembly Gennady Seleznyov and the Minister of the Russian Federation for Communication and Informatization, Chairman of the Council of CIS communications ministers of the Regional Community in Telecommunications Leonid Reiman.

The main goal of the congress was comprehensive discussion of the creation of the climate of trust and information security under conditions of rapid development of infocommunication technologies in the CIS countries.

The forum arranged plenary and round-table sessions considering the social and humanitarian aspects of ensuring information security, legal issues of developing information communications and ensuring information security, security of information resources, systems and networks of fixed and mobile communication, counteraction against illegal use of computer technologies, international aspects of ensuring information security.