Over 90,000 People Expected to Attend 2024 World Youth Festival in Russia

The World Youth Festival will be held from March 1 to 7 in the Sirius Federal District on the order of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The festival program will be attended by 20 thousand participants, half of them foreigners.
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More than 90,000 people will be on the site of the World Youth Festival (WFY-2024), which will take place from March 1 to 7 in Russia's Sirius Federal Territory, said the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Ksenia Razuvaeva.

"We have, of course, in addition to 20,000 participants, these are not the only ones who will arrive at the site of the festival. In total, we have allocated about 18 client groups - these are experts, guests, volunteers, partners, of course, journalists, representatives of the media community, various services, organizers. In total, more than 90,000 participants, people, guests will be at the festival site," Razuvaeva said at a press conference at the Rossiya Segodnya International Press Center.

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WFY-2024 Program Director Sergey Pershin said at the press conference that the main idea of the festival is to create a platform for building ties between young and active people from all over the world to discuss how to build the future world.

"The festival itself is a great meeting place for the youth of the world... In our country throughout its history lived a large number of absolutely different peoples with different traditions, cultural peculiarities, live people with different religions... Also here we can note that arouse great interest... those values, those ideas that our country today represents," Pershin added.

He noted that the festival is aimed at acquainting the guests of the event with the opportunities for development in Russia.
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