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Ten thousand people from all over Russia and another ten thousand of 189 other countries from Great Britain to China spent a week on the Black Sea, where the World Youth Festival (VFM) took place. On March 7, the main part of the festival ended, but thirty more cities of Russia are participated: TS will visit until March 17, that is, until the day of the presidential election. As it became known from the leakage of state documents, VFM is part of Putin’s election campaign.

The DOXA correspondent learned from the participation: Ts the festival, why did they come to the event and whether their expectations were justified.

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"Not in today's Russia"

Building the Future Together We are building the future together and EVERYONE MATTERS Each: Aya matters - in color jackets with English -speaking slogans on the back of a resident: Sirius and nearby Sochi could immediately distinguish the participation: Ts of the World Youth Festival. “I did not feel in Russia,” says Marina Doxa Hero names: Yin changed. , a festival participant, a 22-year-old student from Kaliningrad. “Not in today's Russia, because after the introduction of the sanctions and the beginning, much has changed, the borders closed, it has become more difficult to travel.”

To get to the festival, Marina, like the other participants: the festival, has passed several stages of selection. First, it was necessary to send a portfolio, then write an essay and, finally, download a video forces to the social network VK. Those who have reached the final stage were to answer three questions:

• How do you see your professional development in Russia?
• What skills can you share with other participants in the festival?
• What book of a Russian or other author had a strong influence on your life, views, character?

According to Marina, she was especially waiting for two lectures: the Kazakh comedian Nurlan Saburov and the head of Sberblars Hermann Gref. The festival program covered spheres from the “food of the future” and artificial intelligence to ethnic crafts and nightly musical representations from VK. The document with the full schedule of events totaled more than 500 pages.

A representative came with lectures: the Nits of the Russian government. “I was surprised that the queue for [lecture] Peskov is as huge as Saburov. It is clear that the youth is interesting for all sorts of Turkish actors, [Serbian actor] Milos Bikovich, [Russian actress] Julia Peresild ... And here is Peskov. I can’t say, in a pleasant context is surprise or not, ”says Marina.

Except Peskov with praise “We will no longer endure criticism of our democracy. Our democracy is the best, ”said Peskov. Russian democracy, at the festival, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov read his own poems , the head of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan gave advice “You need to be honest, you don’t need to be unbiased, especially a person from Sevastopol. You know whose side you are, right? " - said Simonyan. on the fact of the Claim, and Vladimir Putin spoke about the role of women “In Russia, women occupy a noticeable role in the life of the country. [...] Unfortunately, there are not many women today in the government. [...] The purpose of a woman is a continuation of the genus. This is a unique, absolutely unique natural gift. ” In Russia.

The most noticeable outside the festival was Dmitry Medvedev’s performance. “Russia does not dictate political will to its good neighbors. Does not tell them how to live. It does not threaten sanctions, ”he said . But the most attention was attracted by a slide with a photo of Western politicians: Emmanuel Macron with a bruise and knocked out his teeth, Olaf Sholts with a hotdog, disheveled by Boris Johnson and others.

“Russia has never been and will not be an“ outcast ”. Great power!" -This is not said by Medvedev, but the 15-year-old Timothy-DOXA correspondent. He comes from Bulgaria, but came to the festival from Turkey, where he was studying at a Russian school. “The future is behind Russia! I saw all of Russia! I drove by car from Vladivostok to Vladikavkaz, I was in Ugra three times, I was in the central part of the country and I speak with dignity, I saw all of Russia! ” - tells In correspondence, spelling is preserved. Timothy. In the future, he plans to enter MGIMO and begin a political career in Moscow. “I would like to unite the culture of the Slavs! I want to engage in politics in Russia and carry Russian culture, ”concludes a teenager.

Meanwhile, the current politicians in speeches emphasized one by one that Russia is a country friendly to a representative: Nitsa of all nationalities. “We love people of all countries of the world. We may have problems with some modes, [...] politicians, with the decisions that they make. But we are open to the relationship of the people with the people, ”Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary, explained on the last day of the festival.

One of the first issues after the speech touched hostilities: the chairman of the Union of Azerbaijani youth in St. Petersburg asked Peskov to comment on the prospect of leaving Russian border guards from the Yerevan airport. Peskov did not answer the question, but found out from the participant how many Azerbaijan: Ok lives in Russia, and reminded that Armenians: OK in Russia is more than in Armenia: “And they are Russians! They are Russians, and they are good here, and we love them, and they love us. We have lived so for centuries and will live for centuries. ”

The requests were also sounded, and the theme of the “friendship of peoples” was still replaced directly by the military. “I would like to ask you to purchase MP3 players for our guys because there is no connection,” Singer Victoria Kazelskaya from the Kaliningrad region addressed Peskov. Since the beginning of a full -scale war, she writes out songs about the Donbass, shoots clips in the destroyed Mariupol and, according to her, she had already given more than fifty concerts in the war zone. In social networks, Victoria asks for subscribers: to participate in the collection of money for products and equipment for the Russian military. She also told Peskov about this: “We collected a money and took the food right to the line of combat contact, there, the guys. Although I know that our army is well provided , for some reason, well, well, it happened that it did not reach them. ”

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The 30-year-old Latif from Lebanon planned to ask Peskov, but did not wait for his turn-but he talked with Doxa. Seven years ago, Latif moved to Stavropol to learn from an oil and gas engineer. “I want a life from which I do not need a vacation. I do not like to be an employee, only for opening a business you need a Russian passport. I hope that in a few years I will get it, ”says Latif Doxa. He is going to open an agency for the sale of real estate, and he learned about the festival through the social networks of the North Caucasus Federal University in which he studied.

“The fact that the Western media speaks of Russia is completely wrong. I asked many random people at the festival their opinion about Russia. In addition to cold weather, I did not receive a single bad review, ”Latif continues. He shows a photo from the festival: on the first two - a smiling Putin, then Cheburashka against the backdrop of palm trees.

“I'm not afraid of sanctions,” the participant adds. He sees for himself two strategies for actions in Russia: “The first option is to understand sanctions and be able to use them in his favor. The second is to work with the countries of the Russian Sanitary Union, such as the countries of the BRICS. There are also options, but I don't understand these myself. ”

There were even five Cheburashki at the World Youth Festival. According to the plan: to, different toys corresponded to one of the five “main meanings” of the event:

• Responsibility for the fate of the world
• Multinational unity
• The world of opportunities for everyone
• We will save the family in the name of children and the world
• We are together with Russia

“The only offense that was repeated in our country is theft of Cheburashki,” said Sergey Kiriyenko, the chairman of his organizing committee and the main ideologist of youth policy in Russia, after the end of the festival. Building toys of VFM are already selling for Avito for 15 thousand, and for 25 thousand you can buy a participation of a participation: TS with another syllable of the festival: "meaning in each of us." The announcements of the resale of cheburashki appeared even before the official closure of VFM.