The World Festival of Youth and Students has opened in Russia

Hello ATS!

The World Youth Festival is the largest event for young people (under 35 years of age) in the world.
The World Youth Festival 2024 takes place from March 1 to March 7 in the subtropics of Russia. The goal is to develop international youth cooperation. The main program of the World Youth Festival 2024 will take place in the Federal Territory "Sirius", which since 2020 has been withdrawn from the city of Sochi. 20 thousand delegates from 180 countries have been invited to the festival.



To help carry out this large-scale event, 5 thousand volunteers from all over Russia work: transport infrastructure facilities, meeting and accommodation of event participants and guests of the Imereti resort.

The cultural program for guests and participants, residents and tourists is represented by 50 tourist display objects that operate in the winter season in Sochi.

The World Youth Festival 2024 is communication, meetings, knowledge exchange, and information competencies of young people. Participants: 20 thousand young leaders, including 10 thousand foreign participants. Of these, teenagers from 14 to 17 years old: 500 from abroad and 500 from Russia “First Movement”.

The Federal Territory of Sirius is a platform for open conversation and exchange of views in 10 different areas of youth activity. The festival is the beginning of new acquaintances and friendships between peers. The festival is a mutual enrichment of the cultures of the countries of the world and the traditions of different peoples.

Sirius University appeared in the form of an International Airport. The “City of Youth” site is located on the territory of the Olympic Park. The main stage with the logo of the World Youth Festival is located on Medalnaya Square and is called “Soul of Russia”. Behind it is the Art Park “Russia in Miniature” (32 art objects from Russian regions). Sirius is a place of unique knowledge and wide opportunities. The Bolshoi Sports Palace is the opening and closing site of the World Youth Festival. The festival's mascot is Cheburashka. The color of the mood is orange!

For foreign participants, the Regional Program of the World Youth Festival is still planned, which will take place from March 10 to 17, 2024. Its participants will visit 26 cities of Russia. Motto: “The future is open to everyone who is willing to respect the values of others!”

Russia is holding the World Youth Festival for the fourth time: the World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) in the USSR in 1957 in Moscow; VFMS in the USSR in 1985 in Moscow; VFMS in Russia in 2017 (Moscow and Sochi); World Youth Festival 2024 in FT "Sirius" and Sochi.

Opening ceremony of the Festival.



Thank you.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Perhaps you can enlighten us about how this "youth-orientated movement" jibes with the national appeal in Russia over the last weeks from authorities for Russian women to commence getting married early and to bear several children so that the army can rebuild its manpower and the country can raise above its present status in the world?

a reply to: CosmicFocus

If you think that women should give birth to children just so that there are more soldiers, then this is your problem personally.
Russia is a country of traditional eternal values, a God-protected country.
If you like Sodom and Gomorrah more, then remember how they ended))))

a reply to: RussianTroll

Meanwhile, in NY of the good old USA, we have this, and things as insane as this happening all over the country.


I think Russia looks like the America I remember. If I could move there I would in a heartbeat to escape this 3rd world sh!thole.
It's like the dumbest communists in America, brainwashed by the best in Russia decades ago, are now in control. Russia won without ever firing a shot. America has fallen.

That looks like a celebration to be proud of RT, enjoy it.

a reply to: stosh64

That sounds like the celebrities who never move to Canada.

Really powerful statements.

a reply to: stosh64

Welcome to Russia!

About the communists. You know, I know history quite well, especially Russian history. So, during the 1917 revolution in Russia, all the communists in the world came here. They took leading positions in the government. After Trotsky's unsuccessful attempt to make a revolution in 1927, Stalin began to rely on national cadres in the party and dispersed this entire campaign of international cosmopolitans. Therefore, especially intellectual communists left mainly for Germany and became teachers at the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt.
In the 1930s, most of them left for the USA. There they and their students became professors at leading US universities; they were called “Frankfurt chicks.” This is where communism began to develop in the United States. It was the “chicks” who became teachers of leading American politicians and presidents.

And Trotsky himself, before his death, wrote the work “The Socialist States of America”, I wrote a thread about this on ATS!

Sincerely!

originally posted by: RussianTroll
The World Youth Festival is the largest event for young people (under 35 years of age) in the world.

Catholic Youth Festival gets at least 50,000 youth each year. The 30th annual Catholic Youth Festival was in 2019 and it was in Medjugorje (I've been there)Vatican News

In addition to the festival itself, World Youth Day is celebrated in conjunction with it by all the Catholic parishes around the world. So even though they can't all be at the actual festival, they celebrate as they can in their own churches and towns. World Youth Day Celebration 2023

a reply to: FlyersFan
A wonderful tradition.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Is this how russia restocks the front lines?

Kinda like hotel California...

originally posted by: Another_Nut
a reply to: RussianTroll

Is this how russia restocks the front lines?

Kinda like hotel California...

Ummm...well...that was certainly a comment from...

Another Nut...


YouSir

a reply to: RussianTroll

Seems like a wonderful event, RT.

Honestly, here in the US,...we're all sick and tired of hearing about all of the angry young idiot leftist fascists and racists burning and tearing down our cities for fun.

Your festival is refreshing.

a reply to: RussianTroll
Thank you for posting about this - such a wonderful event!! It gives one hope, to think of so many young people coming together from all around the world.

I was very interested to read about another large event in Russia:
Multipolarity Forum and Russophile Congress 2024

The multipolarity forum held in Moscow emphasized that diversity of cultures and beliefs facilitates the exchange of ideas and creates harmony in the development of the global economy. The section “Global South: Changing the Global Architecture” attracted a lot of attention from participants who expressed a desire to unite after a long time of division and to stop the exploitation of natural resources by transnational corporations.

One of the attendees from The U.S. was world events commentator Larry C. Johnson, American Patriot & self described "Son of the American Revolution":

"Larry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years."

L.C. Johnson's Blog LINK:

Below is a small part of Larry's perspective on participating in the event - as posted on his blog;

Russia is the most appropriate country in the world to host a conference on “multi-polarity.” Russia is a living, breathing example of that concept, as the largest country in the world and home to over 190 ethnic groups nationwide. Russia is not saddled with a racist legacy like Europe or the United States. As a “slavic” nation it learned first hand in the course of its history the meaning of the term, SLAVE. Russia is in a unique position to teach the rest of the world how to live and sing the coke anthem (i.e., “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony”). This is not Russian propaganda nor is it idle lip service. Unlike Coca Cola, multi-polarity is the real think in Russia. Russia demonstrates how a nation can be Christian and still respect and honor the minority faiths of muslims, hindus and buddahists.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Great event, thank you to the organisers for showing my country on the World map.
Spasiba Tovarisch, Mr. Troll.
Bravo to the people of Russ.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Great ambitions. If the input is positive the outcome will likely be positive.

I'm not sure about the accuracy of this. Can you clarify?

Eligible Regions: All Caribbean Countries & Latin America

www.youthop.com...

“Latin American integration is of paramount importance to us. We prioritize the integration of Latin America and the BRICS nations with other regions,” asserted one of the coordinators.

www.dailynewsegypt.com...

Our idea is, firstly, to bring all these young people together during the preparatory activities and create a network of young leaders in Latin America that could exist before and after the festival.

tvbrics.com...

If the main aim of the festival is fostering leaders we need assurance these leaders won't simply follow the path of all 'great leaders' in the past. The 'great leaders' of the past led us here . . . they failed.


The NATO exhibit.


It seems young Caleb has concerns that he may be accused of 'conspiracy to act as a foreign agent'.


And finally.
A YouTube comment.

Russia is noted for its hospitality and generosity. Much effort and expense has been devoted to making this festival impressive. The exhibits are diverting and overwhelming! But in this time of peril and struggle, can we really afford to be overwhelmed and diverted? I think it is important to maintain a critical edge. The main thing I see to criticize is the lack of political engagement. What are these young people doing to help Palestinians? or Houthis? or the Syrians? or the victims of the Kiev regime? or impoverished Russians in rural villages? Are there places where festival participants can contribute to others, less fortunate? Are there classes where people can explore forms of resistance? The other thing I would criticize is the obsession with visual technology. It is a fallacy to think that we humans are connected by images on a screen. What actually connects us is the heart, and to activate this connection, we need to close our eyes and face a blank screen. When this hidden universe of feeling is drowned out by the marvels of technology, we become an atomized society and lose the solidarity that is the basis for revolution.