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91104
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 14:47
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More than 50 people to take part in fellow-countrymen`s forum in St
St PETERSBURG, November 23 (Itar-Tass) - More than fifty delegates are
expected to take part in the 2nd St Petersburg International Forum of
Young Fellow-Countrymen, who are broadly viewed in Russia as one of the
major constituent elements of the global Russian community abroad.
"Unlike older members of the Russian community abroad, people of young
generations can't rely on the experience of their personal lives when they
make contacts with Russia, and their impressions of this country are
formed by their parents and mass media," an organizer of the forum told
Itar-Tass.
"They find it much more difficult to resist the assimilative impact of
the social environments around them or to keep up their Russian ethnic
identity, and that's why work with young fellow-countrymen is more
difficult and extremely important at the same time," he said.
Youth organizations of fellow-Russians in different countries have
their own specificity stemming from the history, culture, traditions, and
ethnic composition of each particular country, but still they have a
common task of forming an unbiased image of Russia as a country of
multiple roles and cultural traditions.
Also, they have an objective of keeping up and consolidating
connections with the historical homeland.
The forum will open with a plenary session, after which the
participants will split into two sections - a workshop for members of
youth organizations and a roundtable for staff members of Russian-language
mass media.
The agenda of each section includes reports and educational lectures
on the main ideas developed by fellow-Russians in emigration over the
entire history of the Russian global community in dispersal, the
outstanding Russians who lived and worked abroad, the philosophy and
religious outlooks developed by fellow-countrymen.
The presentations will be done by the best specialists working in St
Petersburg.
The city's numerous top-rate universities and colleges will present
their educational programs. The organizers have also prepared an extensive
cultural program for the participants.
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expected to take part in the 2nd St Petersburg International Forum of
Young Fellow-Countrymen, who are broadly viewed in Russia as one of the
major constituent elements of the global Russian community abroad.
"Unlike older members of the Russian community abroad, people of young
generations can't rely on the experience of their personal lives when they
make contacts with Russia, and their impressions of this country are
formed by their parents and mass media," an organizer of the forum told
Itar-Tass.
"They find it much more difficult to resist the assimilative impact of
the social environments around them or to keep up their Russian ethnic
identity, and that's why work with young fellow-countrymen is more
difficult and extremely important at the same time," he said.
Youth organizations of fellow-Russians in different countries have
their own specificity stemming from the history, culture, traditions, and
ethnic composition of each particular country, but still they have a
common task of forming an unbiased image of Russia as a country of
multiple roles and cultural traditions.
Also, they have an objective of keeping up and consolidating
connections with the historical homeland.
The forum will open with a plenary session, after which the
participants will split into two sections - a workshop for members of
youth organizations and a roundtable for staff members of Russian-language
mass media.
The agenda of each section includes reports and educational lectures
on the main ideas developed by fellow-Russians in emigration over the
entire history of the Russian global community in dispersal, the
outstanding Russians who lived and worked abroad, the philosophy and
religious outlooks developed by fellow-countrymen.
The presentations will be done by the best specialists working in St
Petersburg.
The city's numerous top-rate universities and colleges will present
their educational programs. The organizers have also prepared an extensive
cultural program for the participants.
-0-kle
