Public Diplomacy Digest from PICREADI
Public Diplomacy Digest
July 17-23, 2023
Since March 2021 we've launched our weekly Public Diplomacy Digest in English. Here you can find the most significant updates of the current humanitarian politics and public diplomacy news in Russia.
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II Kazan Global Youth Summit calls for applications!
Dates: August 28-30
Place: Kazan, Russia
Participants: young people from the OIC member states, OIC observer states, BRICS countries, countries of the Asian-Pacific region.
    2
    On July 19 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with ~100 representatives of NGOs.
    Natalia Burlinova, President of Creative Diplomacy, proposed setting up a new international body to protect the rights of people who fell under political persecution by the USA and/or their allies.
    3
    [in Russian] In an interview to "Persona Grata" (Radio Sputnik) Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Federation, spoke about Rossotrudnichestvo, problems of promoting Russia's soft power, differences between the work of committees on foreign affairs in the State Duma and the Council of Federation, and paradiplomacy.
      4
      In advance of Summit Russia - Africa 2023:
      On July 25 – 28 Saint Petersburg hosts "Days of African Culture and Cinema" – an event on the cultural programme of Summit Russia - Africa 2023.

      Moscow is about to open a Museum of Culture of African Countries as an affiliated structure of the State Museum of Oriental Art. The new Museum will be represented during Summit Russia - Africa 2023 in Saint Petersburg.