Closing ceremony of the youth festival. Putin will take part in the closing of the World Festival of Youth and Students

SOCHI, October 21 – RIA Novosti. The largest youth event ends on Saturday in Sochi: the official closing ceremony of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students will be held at the Bolshoi Ice Palace, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part.

The festival officially opened in Sochi last Sunday. In total, according to the organizers, 25 thousand people from 188 countries of the world took part in it, as well as five thousand volunteers. It was initially planned that the number of participants would be 20 thousand, but more guests arrived.

“The President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin will take part in the closing of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students,” the Kremlin press service previously reported.

For a whole week, Russian and foreign guests listened to lectures from leading experts in one field or another, asked questions to politicians and ministers, took part in foresight sessions and master classes, listened to concerts of famous musicians, went ice skating and even watched the Sokolov of Russia air show ". The topics of the lectures and panel discussions touched on six topics that are relevant to all of humanity: ecology, poverty, education, energy, information and science. These were the themes that were revealed during the show at the opening ceremony of the festival.

The closing day of the festival is also notable for the fact that it will be dedicated to Russia Day. Before this, the festival hosted days of the Middle East, Europe, America, Asia and Oceania.

Among the “star” guests with whom the participants spoke were the French writer Frederic Beigbeder, motivational speaker Nick Vujicic, as well as famous athletes and models, actors and directors, singers and musicians. Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky were also popular - long lines lined up for panel discussions with them, and afterward the participants did not let go of the speakers for a long time, taking selfies with them.

After the opening, Putin still had time to have a long conversation with the participants, and on Thursday communicate with them in a more informal setting. After his speech at the final meeting of the Valdai Club, he went to the cafe where the participants were relaxing and talked with them.

60 years have passed since Russia first became the host of the World Festival (as part of the USSR). History repeated itself in 1985, and both times the palm branch went to Moscow. But this time Sochi received the right to host the festival, where the main events took place in the Olympic Park.

Last Saturday, Moscow welcomed an equally large-scale event: in the capital, to commemorate the start of the festival, a 35,000-strong column of Russian students and 450 delegates from all over the world marched in a solemn procession from Vasilyevsky Spusk to the Luzhniki sports complex. The procession presented the best world carnival traditions, including Venetian, Brazilian and Indian. In the evening, a festive concert took place in the Russian capital, and the events ended with festive fireworks.

The first World Festival of Youth and Students took place in 1947 in Prague. Until now, it is considered the longest in the history of the festival movement - almost six weeks. The first festival in Moscow, in 1957, also distinguished itself: it was the largest in history - 34 thousand people from 131 countries.

Sputnik, Alexey Stefanov.

Saturday was the last day of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students. There were very few lectures and discussions, everyone was waiting for the official closing of the event - they were preparing for two concerts in the Olympic Park. But shortly before they started, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the festival and took part in a discussion on the topic “Youth 2030. Image of the Future.”

Putin: Russia will remain in your heart

The head of Russia sat in the hall with the students, listened to the speeches, and at the end took the floor and said that those who will succeed in the future will be those “who not only have deep knowledge, but are also able to think creatively and work in a team.” About the fact that the creation of a person with given characteristics can be worse than an atomic bomb, since along with a brilliant mathematician or musician, this “can also be a military man - a person who will fight without fear, feelings of compassion and regret, without pain.” That competitive advantages in the future will be given to those people who not only have a set of interesting and important knowledge, but “creative, planning and other types of thinking.”

“The future begins here, and the future is you. I am sure that when you leave Russia, you will leave a piece of your heart here. But Russia will always remain in your heart. We believe in you,” Putin concluded.

Russian songs for friends from Africa

But this humorous interruption was, of course, only part of the show program. The main emphasis was on the performance of groups with a national flavor from different parts of Russia. And to make it easier for foreigners, and even Russian youth, to navigate where this or that ensemble came from in Sochi, the names of cities appeared on the screens one after another, some of them were described in more detail, after which the name of the federal district appeared.

And where the foreign youth came from could be understood either by the state flags they wrapped themselves in as they walked around the square, or by the T-shirts and sweatshirts on which the names of cities and countries were written. However, at the end of the show everything got mixed up - the students swapped both flags and clothes. Already in the twilight you could easily see a guy in a “Yaroslavl Region” sweatshirt surrounded by friends, and when you came closer you realized that these were representatives of a distant African country.

Students from China danced dashingly to the Russian folk choir named after E. Popov, and a large round dance to the performance of the State Academic Kuban Cossack Choir with squat dancing was organized by students from Africa. And I must say, they danced very masterfully.

“Friends, now you know what it’s like to live in Russia in the 21st century, to use modern technologies. We hope that you will soon see all the corners of our country that we showed today with your own eyes!” — the presenter’s voice sounded from the speakers, after which he invited all the performers to the stage, and the singer Zara sang the song “My Native Country is Wide,” which was picked up by the audience.

It's been an amazing week

The main show of the World Festival of Youth and Students, which was supposed to be the final chord of the week-long marathon, took place in the Bolshoi Ice Palace adjacent to Medals Plaza.

Young people began to flow there. When all ten thousand seats were occupied, the audience put on their hands the interactive bracelets already known from the opening, which light up synchronously, blink in time with the music and create the illusion of lighters or flashlights in the dark hall, the countdown began.

At number one, the spotlights illuminated the central podium, where musicians and singers gathered this time. But not visiting stars, as was the case during the opening ceremony of the festival, but the participants of the Festival of Youth and Students themselves. For the first time in the history of such events, this musical group was formed during the festival. It included talented young people from Russia, China, Argentina, Italy and other countries, and the leadership of the orchestra was taken over by brothers Alexander and Nikita Pozdnyakov, participants of the first season of the Voice competition. For a week they rehearsed world rock hits in order to present their work at the closing of the largest event of the year.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, saxophonist Igor Butman, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) CEO Marco Lambertini, Russian grandmaster Sergei Karyakin, professional skateboarder Steve Berra, Secretary General of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Fatma Samura, actor Vladimir Menshov...

They all said that the festival presented a picture of the world - representatives of different countries and nationalities, called for a healthy lifestyle and exercise, to strive for a dream, but at the same time live in the present as if it were the most priceless gift, and Vladimir Menshov asked to keep the impressions of this holiday in his soul, as he did 60 years ago, when he also spent time at the first festival of youth and students, which took place in Russia.

And then the concert itself began. In between songs, the presenter spoke about the tradition that was established at that very festival in Moscow in 1957, when young poets read their poems. And he suggested continuing the baton. Then it was Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina and Bob Dylan, and now Artem Novichenkov, Nika Simonova, Veniamin Borisov and others.

Participant from Brazil Enrique Dominguez gave a heartfelt speech in which he expressed words of gratitude to the organizers and volunteers of the festival.

"It was an amazing week. Here, in Sochi, I felt the strength of millions of people who live and unite their efforts. I have no doubt that a new world will be built by the hands of youth. Nothing ends with us, but is just beginning. Let's build our life together!" - he urged.

The head of the directorate for the preparation and conduct of the VFMS, Ksenia Razuvaeva, also thanked the volunteers, who noted that the festival’s volunteer team became “the largest team of volunteers of all non-sports events in the entire history of the volunteer movement.” In their uniform blue clothes, volunteers also stood at the foot of the stage at the closing ceremony of the festival, dancing and encouraging the spectators to make live waves in the stands.

In Russia people don't hug bears

One of the touching moments of the show was the performance of a festival participant, a professional musician from Chad, Ndolegulom Jasrabe Hervé.

He told the story of his poor family, his desire to grow up and help his parents and all the children of Chad, why he chose this profession, and also about the country’s young people who have practically no opportunity to access the Internet, about the feeling of loneliness and isolation from the rest of the world. Even the disc with his song, before it got to the festival, Herve had to transfer through several friends so that it would get to Moscow.

"We are scattered around the world, but we are united and can solve our problems together. Hello, Russia!" - this cheerful song of his in his native language became the unofficial anthem of the festival. And the composition of the Russian musician, actor and director Alexei Vorobyov was chosen as the official anthem.

When a UN volunteer came on stage and began to talk about how she had come to Sochi to become one of five thousand volunteers, some conversations swept through the hall, the audience began to turn around and peer at the figure of a man who appeared on the VIP stand near domes.

It turned out that Vladimir Zhirinovsky came to watch the closing of the festival, although at first it looked like he had come to Sochi to show himself - he stood for a long time and waved his hands to everyone. And even the volunteers near the stage responded in kind. Because of this, the performance of the foreign participant turned out to be a little blurry. However, with the first chords of the next hit, they forgot about the politician.

It was also interesting to listen to short interviews with participants from European, Asian and African countries, which were shown on screens. They were sincerely surprised that in Russia “there are no stern, healthy men wearing earflaps” who “walk around hugging polar bears”, that everywhere is not gloomy and dirty, but clean and cultured, and that the Hollywood image of Russians is completely untrue .

And the concert ended with Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah", the audience sadly began to leave the ice arena, but another small surprise awaited them on the street. Another disco concert was held on the open stage of Medals Plaza, which ended at midnight with a grandiose festive fireworks display.

RIGA, Oct 22 - Sputnik, Alexey Stefanov. Saturday was the last day of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students. There were very few lectures and discussions, everyone was waiting for the official closing of the event - they were preparing for two concerts in the Olympic Park. But shortly before they started, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the festival and took part in a discussion on the topic “Youth 2030. Image of the Future.”

Putin: Russia will remain in your heart

Russian songs for friends from Africa

While the Russian President was speaking at the Main Media Center, the grandiose show “Russia” began on the open area of Medals Plaza. The concert organizers thought that in the age of social networks, young people quickly perceive information in this format. Therefore, on huge screens near the stage between performances of groups from all over Russia, correspondence in instant messengers of festival participants, photos from Instagram and videos from YouTube were displayed. But this humorous interruption was, of course, only part of the show program. The main emphasis was on the performance of groups with a national flavor from different parts of Russia. And to make it easier for foreigners, and even Russian youth, to navigate where this or that ensemble came from in Sochi, the names of cities appeared on the screens one after another, some of them were described in more detail, after which the name of the federal district appeared.

The youth gathered in the square reacted very vividly to these districts and cities - one could even guess in which exact corner of the Medals Plaza site students from Moscow, Vladikavkaz, Elista, Ryazan or Novosibirsk were located at that moment. And where the foreign youth came from could be understood either by the state flags they wrapped themselves in as they walked around the square, or by the T-shirts and sweatshirts on which the names of cities and countries were written. However, at the end of the show everything got mixed up - the students swapped both flags and clothes. Already in the twilight you could easily see a guy in a “Yaroslavl Region” sweatshirt surrounded by friends, and when you came closer you realized that these were representatives of a distant African country.

It's been an amazing week

The main show of the World Festival of Youth and Students, which was supposed to be the final chord of the week-long marathon, took place in the Bolshoi Ice Palace adjacent to Medals Plaza. Young people began to flow there. When all ten thousand seats were occupied, the audience put on their hands the interactive bracelets already known from the opening, which light up synchronously, blink in time with the music and create the illusion of lighters or flashlights in the dark hall, the countdown began.

At number one, the spotlights illuminated the central podium, where musicians and singers gathered this time. But not visiting stars, as was the case during the opening ceremony, but the participants of the Festival of Youth and Students themselves. For the first time in the history of such events, this musical group was formed during the festival. It included talented young people from Russia, China, Argentina, Italy and other countries, and the leadership of the orchestra was taken over by brothers Alexander and Nikita Pozdnyakov, participants of the first season of the Voice competition. For a week they rehearsed world rock hits in order to present their work at the closing of the largest event of the year.

“We speak different languages, but we are connected by a common desire to make the world a better place,” said the presenter, after which the speakers who came to Sochi this week began to appear on the screen one after another. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, saxophonist Igor Butman, CEO of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Marco Lambertini, Russian grandmaster Sergei Karyakin, professional skateboarder Steve Berra, Secretary General of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Fatma Samura, actor Vladimir Menshov... They all talked about that the festival presented a picture of the world - representatives of different countries and nationalities called for leading a healthy lifestyle and playing sports, striving for a dream, but at the same time living in the present as if it were the most priceless gift, and Vladimir Menshov asked to keep in his soul impressions of this holiday, as he did 60 years ago, when he spent time in exactly the same way at the first festival of youth and students, which took place in Russia.

And then the concert itself began. In between songs, the presenter spoke about the tradition that was established at that very festival in Moscow in 1957, when young poets read their poems. And then he suggested continuing the relay race. Then it was Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina and Bob Dylan, and now Artem Novichenkov, Nika Simonova, Veniamin Borisov and others.

Participant from Brazil Enrique Dominguez gave a heartfelt speech in which he expressed words of gratitude to the organizers and volunteers of the festival. "It was an amazing week. Here, in Sochi, I felt the strength of millions of people who live and unite their efforts. I have no doubt that a new world will be built by the hands of youth. Nothing ends with us, but is just beginning. Let's build our life together!" - he urged.

The head of the directorate for the preparation and conduct of the VFMS, Ksenia Razuvaeva, also thanked the volunteers, who noted that the festival’s volunteer team became “the largest team of volunteers of all non-sports events in the entire history of the volunteer movement.” In their uniform blue clothes, volunteers stood at the foot of the stage at the closing ceremony of the festival, dancing and encouraging the audience to make a live wave in the stands.

In Russia people don't hug bears

One of the touching moments of the show was the performance of a festival participant, a professional musician from Chad, Ndolegulom Jasrabe Hervé. He told the story of his poor family, his desire to grow up and help his parents and all the children of Chad, why he chose this profession, and also about the country’s young people who have practically no opportunity to access the Internet, about the feeling of loneliness and isolation from the rest of the world. Even the disc with his song, before it got to the festival, Herve had to transfer through several friends so that it would get to Moscow. "We are scattered around the world, but we are united and can solve our problems together. Hello, Russia!" - this cheerful song of his in his native language became the unofficial anthem of the festival. And the composition of the Russian musician, actor and director Alexei Vorobyov was chosen as the official anthem.

During the appearance of a UN volunteer on stage and a speech in which she spoke about how she came to Sochi to become one of five thousand volunteers, some conversations swept through the hall, the audience began to turn around and peer at the figure of a man who appeared at the VIP -the grandstand right next to the dome. It turned out that Vladimir Zhirinovsky came to watch the closing of the festival, although at first it looked like he had come to Sochi to show himself - he stood for a long time and waved his hands to everyone. And even the volunteers near the stage responded in kind. Because of this, the performance of the foreign participant turned out to be a little blurry. However, with the first chords of the next hit, they forgot about the politician.

It was also interesting to listen to short interviews with participants from European, Asian and African countries, shown on screens. The delegates were sincerely surprised that in Russia “there are no stern, healthy men in earflaps” who “walk around hugging polar bears”, that everywhere is not gloomy and dirty, but clean and cultured, and that the Hollywood image of Russians is completely untrue .

“Penguins of the Pen” is a three-day marathon, during which 40 youth editorial staff searched for informational leads, made acquaintances, wrote texts, conducted interviews, filmed photo and video reports, filled out accounts on social networks and “hunted” for exclusive information.

The second day of the festival was dedicated to gaining new knowledge: master classes were held for teams and their leaders. The lecturers were representatives of various media, such as: Channel One TV channels, "Russia-24", "Russia Today", "Kino Mail.ru", radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda", magazines "I Like Today", "Journalist", teachers of IGUMO, IPCC, members of the Union of Journalists of Russia and the Union of Journalists of the Moscow Region.

“I will never forget the emotions I experienced here. This is where I was able to open up. I was doing what I loved and I liked it. Isn’t this happiness?” (Irina Ovdenko, captain of the LiGa team, Elektrostal). On the last day of the festival, the editors completed their work and the jury members began evaluating the works. At 18:00 a closing ceremony took place, at which prizes were awarded to the winners and participants of the festival.

WinnersXIIIOpen festival of youth journalism "Penguins of the Feather"

Nomination "Best Editorial"

Students: “7th workshop” (Center for Multimedia Journalism of MPGU, Moscow)

Schoolchildren: “Parallax” (GBOU School No. 2045, press center “Begemot TV”, Zelenograd)

Nomination "Best Journalist"

Students:

1st place – Ekaterina Alyabyeva (editorial staff of “TChK.”, Sakhalin State University, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)

2nd place – Ekaterina Orlikova (editorial office of “Not Jeans”, IGUMOiIT, Moscow)

2nd place – Anastasia Vasilyeva (edition “7th Workshop”, Center for Multimedia Journalism at Moscow State University of Pedagogical University, Moscow)

3rd place – Alexey Zheludov (edition “7th Workshop”, Center for Multimedia Journalism at Moscow State University of Pedagogical University, Moscow)

Schoolchildren:

1st place – Egor Gudkov (editorial office of “Media Mart”, JSC “Editorial office of the newspaper “Evening Moscow”, Moscow)

2nd place – Vladislav Plotnikov (Parallax editorial office, GBOU School No. 2045, Begemot TV press center, Zelenograd)

3rd place – Sofya Belyantseva (editorial office of “Experiment #3.35”, State Autonomous Educational Institution of Further Professional Education “TemoCenter”, School of Multimedia Journalism, Moscow)

The winners of the 2nd and 3rd prizes in the category “Best Journalist” received an internship at the Journalist magazine, the winners received a ticket to the Summer School of Multimedia Journalism (for schoolchildren) and an internship at the Russia-24 TV channel (for students). Prizes and useful certificates were also provided by: the Russia Today TV channel, the Moscow Union of Journalists, the Estesis magazine, the Diadar company, the Cosmo cats, Reputation agencies, the Tyrolskie confectionery brand and other sponsors. Among the gifts were souvenirs and gadgets from the Zodchie Cultural Center.

Nomination "Best stand"

Schoolchildren: editorial office “In the Center” (MAE DO “Center for Extracurricular Activities”, Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk region)

Nomination "Best Homework"

Students: editorial staff of “Bona fide” (MSLU, Ostozhenka magazine, Moscow)

Schoolchildren: editorial office of “Insignia” (Moscow)

Nomination "Best Headline"

Students: Elmira Mustafaeva, team “Not Jeans” (IGUMOiIT, Moscow)

Schoolchildren: Sofia Boronina, team “Hello!” (MBU DO of the urban district of Korolev, Moscow Region "School of Arts", Korolev, Moscow Region

Nomination "Debut"

Students: editorial staff of “Prosto” (SZIU RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg)

Schoolchildren: editorial office of Unpress (Elektrostal)

From year to year, the Penguins of the Feather festival expands its geography. This time the participants came from Kaluga, Vereshchagino and Chernushka (Perm region), Novouralsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Volgograd, St. Petersburg, Moscow and cities in the Moscow region (Serpukhov, Elektrostal, Zelenograd, Korolev). We are glad that we provide an opportunity for aspiring journalists to demonstrate their abilities, gain knowledge and experience, and also communicate with colleagues from different parts of the country.

Well, the WFMS ended after which for some reason all possible sources were clogged with this video with Putin. And indeed, it’s funny to hear English speech from BB, I don’t remember anything like this before

But to be honest, after the closure, I was interested in something else - a new open platform and one of the sections with foreign students about the future where VV visited. I'll start with the second one

Guys from different countries and involved in different areas talk briefly about their cases and proposals.
I especially want to draw attention to the topics
1) Surely you know about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, so it is extremely important now to add the 18th goal - “creating a sustainable digital environment.” I have written about this topic more than once, the point is that until we explain to all users how to protect themselves and learn to control the World Wide Web, there will not be a single and clear structure that “plays” by the rules.
2) An interesting approach to waste recycling from a student from Finland - a fairly simple platform application in which the consumer can transfer waste to those who use the waste for their own additional purposes. A brilliant topic in fact, I wrote a thesis on a similar topic, but I focused on separate waste collection in the harsh Russian reality and in my time there were no applications, but now it’s really so simple!
3) 29 minutes - the creation of a place called “national scientific territory” with the support of the UN and G20, in which there will be an opportunity to implement all projects for talents from all over the world. A very interesting desire and initiative.

In general, what I’m telling you - watch the video - it’s very interesting:

Well, the second topic is Kiriyenko’s story about the projects of the “Russia - Land of Opportunities” platform, which really arouses interest among those who were born in the 90s and have not seen such innovative approaches from the point of view of “the state is young talent.”

I’ll start a little from afar - it’s interesting, but exactly four years ago we set off across Russia in two cars and a crew of seven people to show the power of our country and. And now this is also the name of an open platform that combines support for a huge number of projects offered by young students. In fact, this is one of the effective and working social elevators, which I hope will qualitatively develop our regions with the help of talented youth. And this is really serious about elevators - a number of vacancies have already been prepared in government agencies, including in the presidential administration and deputy ministers, which can be filled by the winners of platform competitions.

The platform is completely open and now there are four full projects running on it:

1) The “Leaders of Russia” competition, which received more than 120 thousand applications in two weeks! The project is aimed at young and established managers who probably understand the prospects, but do not know that, for example, the Department of Internal Policy has already prepared one of them for one of the positions of department director. For example, Maxim Oreshkin himself plans to select a deputy minister and three directors of departments of the ministry through an open competition, including from the winners of the Leaders of Russia program."

2) The “Manage” project, which is aimed at students, but unlike student leaders, it is designed for those who do not have management experience.

3) Grant competition for youth initiatives

4) “Russian movement of schoolchildren: territory of self-government”, which will promote self-organization with the right guidance even from the school desk

And I can’t help but agree that such projects can help identify talent and potential in people at an early age, and most importantly, help them develop, of course, if they have the desire.

It remains to summarize that this festival has a really good level of organization and elaboration of the relevance of the topics, and also opens up huge horizons for current students!