Всемирный фестиваль молодёжи (2024)

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The World Festival of Youth is an international Youth festival which was held in federalnaya territory Sirius, Russia, from February 29 – March 7, 2024. ¹

On April 5, 2023, Russian president Putin signed a decree on holding the World Youth Festival in 2024. The festival will be held to develop international youth cooperation. In the spring of 2023, the composition of the Organizing Committee and its Presidium was also formed. The Organizing Committee for the preparation and holding of the World Youth Festival was formed to ensure coordination of the activities and interaction of federal executive authorities, executive authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation, local governments and organizations involved in the implementation of events for the preparation and holding of the festival, as well as in solving other related tasks. In 2023 The Government of the Russian Federation within a three-month period was instructed to develop and implement, with the participation of federal executive authorities, measures aimed at preparing and holding the World Youth Festival, to assist in public media coverage of the events for the preparation and holding of the Festival and to identify sources of financial support for the events for the preparation and holding of the Festival. May 11, 2023 in Moscow the first meeting of the Organizing Committee of the World Youth Festival was held under the chairmanship of the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Sergey Kiriyenko. On June 8, 2023 on "Dobro. Conferences" in the Samara region, applications for the World Youth Festival Volunteer Corps have been launched. Applications from those wishing to become volunteers of the World Youth Festival will be accepted until December 1, 2023. By mid-August 2023, preparatory committees have been opened in more than 15 countries that will participate in the World Youth Festival. ¹

According to organizers, 20,000 people and 190 countries take part in it: Russian and foreign participants from the fields of business, media, international cooperation, culture, volunteering and charity, sport, different spheres of life. According to the head of Rosmolodezhi Ksenia Razuvaeva among the participants will be students, young professionals, entrepreneurs, leaders of non-profit organizations, diplomats, athletes and cultural figures. It was proposed to expand the age of the Festival participants. ¹

Ukrainian citizens have participated but they were not an official delegation in the Festival. ¹

The purpose of the festival is to create a platform for networking between young people from around the world. The International Youth Festival's objectives include, to become the capital of the future just world, where respect for each other, values and culture of various countries and peoples is at the forefront. ¹

The organizer of the international youth festival is the Directorate of the World Youth Festival, two more special bodies have been created for the preparation and holding of the festival — The International Program Committee, which includes the heads of the largest NGOs, businesses and youth organizations, as well as the International Youth Council, which unites youth and young leaders of Russia and foreign countries. ¹

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World Festival of Youth (2024) is 2024 event in Russia, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. ²