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Meeting of the organizing committee for the preparation and holding of the XI St. Petersburg International Forum of United Cultures under the leadership of Tatyana Golikova.
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The XI St. Petersburg International Forum of United Cultures will be held in the first half of September. The corresponding decision was made on March 3 at a meeting of the organizing committee for its preparation and holding under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.
“We have gained experience in preparing the Forum of United Cultures and are improving it every year,” said Tatyana Golikova. “Despite the COVID period and the resumption of the forum in an updated format at a time when some countries attempted to cancel Russian culture, the platform is working successfully and uniting cultural figures of the world. This year, the forum will be held in the first half of September.”
The main theme of the forum is “Return to Culture – New Opportunities”, said Tatyana Golikova. The business program venues will traditionally be the General Staff Building of the State Hermitage Museum, the spaces of the State Russian Museum and the State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg.
The forum’s cultural program will include a concert on Palace Square and a gala concert of opera and ballet stars at the Mikhailovsky Theater.
The head of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, Olga Lyubimova, presented a report on the preparation of the forum at the meeting.
“In 2025, we propose increasing the total maximum number of participants to 2,000 people. It is expected that Russian participation will be expanded by increasing quotas for subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as by attracting more cultural figures and special guests,” Olga Lyubimova noted.
Thematic sections will be headed by Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Konstantin Mogilevsky, General Director of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives Roman Karmanov, General Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Russian Ethnographic Museum Yulia Kupina, Chairman of VEB.RF Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy General Director of the Russian Information Agency ITAR-TASS Mikhail Gusman, Executive Director of the Cinema Fund Fyodor Sosnov, Artistic Director of the State Theatre of Nations Yevgeny Mironov, General Director of the State Academic Capella of St. Petersburg Olga Khomova, General Director of the Bolshoi Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky Avenue Edgar Zapashny.
A new section, “Artistic Education,” will be added, curated by the rector of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) Grigory Zaslavsky.
The forum will cover the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. The Russian news agency ITAR-TASS proposed organizing a photo exhibition “The Muses Were Not Silent” based on materials from its archives.
The General Director of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives Roman Karmanov spoke about the events of the section “Culture and New Technologies”, and the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Boris Piotrovsky spoke about the regional program of the forum.
Proposals for the future program of the forum were made by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Pankin, Special Representative of the President of Russia for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi, and Chairman of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for Church-Society Relations and the Media Vladimir Legoida.
The head of the Directorate of the St. Petersburg International Forum of United Cultures, Vladimir Kekhman, said that at least 300 representatives of Russian and foreign media are expected.
Tatyana Golikova at the award ceremony for the participants and organizers of the 10th St. Petersburg International Forum of United Cultures
The Government House also hosted an awards ceremony for the participants and organizers of the 10th St. Petersburg International Forum of United Cultures. The Deputy Prime Minister presented them with certificates of honor and gratitude from the Russian Government.
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