Foreign doctors, artists, journalists, and bloggers have shared why they chose to build their lives and careers in Russia<\/p>\n
Russia is increasingly becoming a destination for young foreigners seeking to study, work, and build careers, participants at the International Youth Festival in Ekaterinburg, in Russia\u2019s Urals Region, have said. Foreign doctors, artists, journalists and bloggers who have made the country their home shared their experiences as the global gathering got underway.
\nSome 10,000 young people representing 191 countries, including Russia, are taking part in the week-long event. Scientists, entrepreneurs, journalists, artists, athletes, and technology specialists are attending hundreds of discussions, workshops, cultural events, and professional exchanges.<\/p>\n
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Russian President Vladimir Putin formally opened the festival on Sunday, welcoming thousands of young people from around the world in a video address. He described Ekaterinburg as a city \u201cwhere Europe and Asia meet\u201d and wished the participants success in their discussions and joint projects.
\nThe question of what draws foreigners to Russia took center stage during a festival session featuring Tanzanian-born doctor Cresencia Peter Mashauri, Italian pianist and blogger Lorenzo Bagnati, Canadian blogger and language teacher Olivier Roy Pelletier, RT Chinese-language journalist and producer Fan Fei, and Italian-born conductor Fabio Mastrangelo.
\nTheir stories span markedly different professions and parts of the country. Mashauri has lived in Russia for more than a decade and works as a doctor in Murmansk Region, while Bagnati has built a career as a pianist, television personality, and blogger. Mastrangelo, meanwhile, has spent decades working in Russia\u2019s classical music scene and serves as artistic director of St. Petersburg\u2019s Shalyapin Musical Theater.<\/p>\n
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The exhibition \u201cCatastrophe of Memory: Neo-Nazism in the 21st Century\u201d also opened on Sunday in the presence of festival organizing committee chairman Sergey Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of Russia\u2019s Presidential Administration.
\nDrawing on materials from museums, archives and news agencies, the exhibition covers the Nuremberg trials and the crimes of Nazi Germany before turning to the modern-day glorification of Nazi collaborators and other manifestations of neo-Nazism.
\nThe Ekaterinburg gathering follows the 2024 World Youth Festival in Sochi, which brought together around 20,000 participants from 190 countries. Russia has since moved to make international youth festivals a regular event, with the next full-scale World Youth Festival scheduled for 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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