On 19 and 20 October 2011, the Deputy Secretary General of the WCO, Mr. Sergio Mujica, took part in the International Forum “Customs-Business: International Aspects of Cooperation” that was co-organized by the WCO and the Russian Federal Customs Service (RFCS) in Moscow, Russia.

The 6th annual PICARD Conference will take place from 14 to 16 September 2011 at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Ukrainian Academy of Customs is organising the 5th International Scientific School-Seminar «The History of Trade, Taxes and Duties», which will take place from 27 to 28 October 2011 in Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine at the headquarters of the Ukrainian Academy of Customs.

On May, 31st in the Russian Customs Academy the Secretary of the Commission of Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) Customs union hold a presentation of a new book – «Regulation of foreign trade of EurAsEC Customs union» which has been issued in Moscow publishing house «Prospectus» in 2011 under the general edition of the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, PhD. Glazev and PhD. Mansurova. The Academy as a presentation place is chosen not casually, as this book – the manual, and the Russian Customs Academy is the base High school of Educational-methodical association of higher educational institutions by education in the field of customs.

From May, 23 till May, 29th 2011 the group of scientists of the Research center of the Russian customs academy (Kornjakov K.A., Egorov J.N. and Jatsushko A.N.) examined a problems and collected necessary data for performing of researches on problems of a «dry ports» in Novorossiysk.

A new Customs publication is born. The Regional Training Centres of the Europe region have joined their efforts to create the Customs Scientific Journal: CUSTOMS.

On April, 20th 2011г. the All-Russia student’s scientifically-practical conference «Student’s innovations to Customs» has taken place in the Russian customs academy. The conference has been attended by the representatives of Federal customs service of Russia, professors, post-graduate students and students of the Russian customs academy and its branches, and also representatives of universities on customs: the Moscow humanitarian-economic institute, the Moscow social and economic institute, the International academy of business and management, the Penza state university, the Nizhniy Novgorod state university of  N.I.Lobachevsky, the Russian state trade and economic university (Smolensk branch), Volga region academy of public service of P.A.Stolypina, National Euroasian institute of economy and the international relations (Yekaterinburg), the Vladimir state university.

On April, 12th, 2011 the presentation of the book of Mr.Claudiy Aleksandrovich Kornjakov – the general of customs service, a honored customs officer of the Russian Federation, Ph.D., an order bearer and just a remarkable person, has taken place in The Russian Customs Academy.