Programme

At the start of the 21st century, new centres of power gradually began to take shape and were bolstered politically by economic growth. Against the backdrop of political and economic crises, as well as the decline of the global governance institutions in which the “collective West” plays the leading role, the creation of these new centres of power laid the groundwork for a gradual transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world order, triggering the emergence of new global players and the formation of regional and inter-regional blocs. In 2022, after the start of the special military operation, the process of building a multipolar world order accelerated: the world saw that the West, to protect its dominance, was ready to try unilaterally “cancelling” countries in cultural, economic, geopolitical and other terms. As a result, in non-Western countries, demand has risen sharply for new formats and mechanisms of cooperation independent of the West and in line with the spirit of the times. The need for new approaches towards work in all spheres of international activity is coming to the fore. What role does humanitarian policy play in building international relations? How actively are young people participating in the transformation of the world order? How can major events such as the 2024 World Youth Festival help broadcast the ideas and values of a just world (preservation of identity, respect for sovereignty, balance of geopolitical centres of power)? Is humanitarian policy capable of effectively aiding the development of business ties? What is the media’s role in promoting the ideas of a multipolar world and sovereign development? What target audiences should we be working with? How can new media be used to overcome censorship and “cancellation” by Western countries? How can we achieve dialogue and cooperation between different countries, cultures and generations without restrictions?

Moderator
Arseny Mayorov,

Arseny Mayorov

Panellists
Alexey Goreslavsky, Director General, ANO "Internet Development Institute" (IRI)
Maria Zakharova, Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Karin Kneissl, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria (2017–2019)
Matthias Moosdorf, Member of the Bundestag for the Zwickau Сonstituency of the Federal Republic of Germany; Musician
Hans-Joachim Frey, Artistic Director, Talent and Success Foundation
Kirill Shamalov, CEO, Ladoga Menedzhment

Alexey Goreslavsky

Director General, ANO "Internet Development Institute" (IRI)

Alexey Goreslavsky was born in Moscow in 1977.
He graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1999 and from the postgraduate school of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002.
He worked for Moskovsky Komsomolets and Sovershenno Sekretno. Versia newspapers starting 1995.
He served as editor-in-chief of the Internet newspaper Vzglyad from 2005 to 2007, director of online projects at the Interfax news service from 2007 to 2010, and as head of communications of AgencyOne from 2011 to 2013.
He became deputy general director of Rambler&Co in 2013.
Alexei Goreslavsky was appointed editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru in March 2014.
He is married and has a daughter.

Maria Zakharova

Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Born December 24, 1975, in Moscow
Graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1998 in the field of international journalism. Has the diplomatic rank of Envoy extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the first class.
Joined the Russian Foreign Ministry after graduation. Worked as an editor of the monthly magazine “Diplomatic bulletin”. Acted as the head of the Media operational monitoring department of the Information and Press Department. Worked as Head of the press service of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN in New York from 2005 to 2008. Held various positions in the Central Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011. Worked as Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2015.
Appointed Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 2015.
Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of Russia, a member of the Board of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Speaks English and Chinese fluently.

Karin Kneissl

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria (2017–2019)

Matthias Moosdorf

Member of the Bundestag for the Zwickau Сonstituency of the Federal Republic of Germany; Musician

Born in 1965 in Leipzig. Studied at the “Hochschule für Musik Leipzig“ with J. Timm, W. Weber (violoncello) and G. Bosse (chamber music), “Konzertexamen“ (concert diploma) in 1991, chamber music studies with the Amadeus-Quartett in Cologne and London, with Hatto Beyerle in Hannover and Walter Levin in Lübeck. Founding member of the “Leipziger Streichquartett“, the “Ensemble Avantgarde”, solo cellist in the “Leipziger Kammerorchester” from 1991-2001. ARD-prize winner in 1991, Busch-prize, Siemens-music prize (always with the quartet), in 1991 Schneider-Schott-prize of the City of Mainz for his work with the “Ensemble Avantgarde”.
Concerts all over the world (more than 55 countries in Europe, South-East-Asia, Japan, North- and South America, Australia, Northern Africa, complete cycles of contemporary chamber music at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Gütersloh and Barcelona, constant cooperation with Hans Zender, Giora Feidman, Martin Lovett, Michael Sanderling, Christian Zacharias, Eliot Fisk, Karl Leister, Olaf Bär, Christiane Oelze, Alfred Bendel, Klaus-Maria Brandauer a.o. Thematic cycles referring to Schubert, Beethoven, personal festival “Pro Quatuor“ in cooperation with the Leipzig Gewandhaus; lectures about stylistic differentiation and musical rhetoric, quartet „in residence“ with the “Bachakademie” in Stuttgart in 1997 and 2004, at the “Auditorio Nacional Madrid” in 2001, as well as the “Theatre de Chatelet” in Paris in 2004.
Numerous productions for radio- and TV-broadcasting stations in various countries, more than 55 CDs comprising a repertoire from Mozart to Blacher, among others complete recordings of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Paul Dessau, Anton Webern, Theodor Adorno, Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill, John Cage a. o. First recording of all string quartets by Franz Schubert, complete recording of the quartets of the Second Viennese School.
Since 1991 exclusive agreement with MDG, international record prizes (Echo Klassik 5 times, Indie Award 99 and 2000, Diapason d’Or, Premios CD Compact, Luister, Grammophone Editors Choice etc.) in Germany, France, England, Spain, the USA, Japan, Holland (for Brahms, Schubert, Brown, Schoenberg, Mozart, Beethoven und Cage).
From 1992 to 1996 assistant at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig”, in 1996 German first performance of the „Konzert zu dritt“ by Alfred Schnittke in the Gewandhaus Leipzig, idea of the “Internationale-Beethoven-Zyklus”, which connected more than 15 cities by means of 5 other quartets (Hagen, Carmina, Keller, Vogler, Mosaique) in 1996 and 1997, since 1996 he teaches violoncello and chamber music at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater ´Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy´ Leipzig”. Since 2006 member of Trio Ex Aequo.
International master classes in South America, Japan, the USA and Europe. Moosdorf plays a cello by Andreas Guarnerius, Cremona 1697. Member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra on invitation of Maestro Abbado.

Hans-Joachim Frey

Artistic Director, Talent and Success Foundation