Russoft members pay fees depending on their size and can be either a full or associate member. It is also a member of the Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association. Fort-Ross began hosting the Russian Outsourcing and Software Summit in June 2001 and continues to hold it annually under the Russoft name. Similarly to Indian
NASSCOM, Russoft was created to represent Russian software development companies on the global market, to enhance marketing and PR activities of its members, and to lobby their interests to the government. Since the
Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many Russian companies have started exploring other avenues to survive amid
sanctions from Western countries, their main export market. Some have already started joint ventures with Indian companies. In 2023, Russoft asked the
Ministry of Finance for 465 million
rubles a year to start an
accelerator to support Russian IT companies with launching new products. == References ==