A unique educational course for 50 foreign media specialists has come to an end at the World Youth Festival Assembly held on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation. Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, familiarized himself with the work of the platform.
The three-day intensive course was conducted by the World Youth Festival Directorate in conjunction with the New Media Workshop, an educational program for experienced media specialists created by ANO Dialogue and Senezh Management Workshop as part of the presedential platform “Russia – Country of Opportunities”. Following the training, foreign bloggers formed a permanent community for sharing experiences, learning, and producing and promoting content about Russia aimed at a young audience.
"For several years in a row, we have seen growing interest in the tools and approaches used in the Russian media environment from the professional community in other countries. I am confident that Russia has something to be proud of here – platforms, a support system for content creators and, of course, a system of professional standards and training. Our media standards are of interest both to experienced foreign media specialists who come to the main training courses offered by the New Media Workshop, including representatives from 11 countries, and to young people from dozens of countries who have completed the intensive training. And our international activities are not limited to this. For example, at the competition for selection for training in the New Media of Abkhazia program, which ended a few days ago, based on the Workshop's standards and with the participation of experts from Russia, there were more than 10 applicants per place," Yulia Ablets, Deputy General Director of ANO “Dialog Regions” and founder of the New Media Workshop, says.
The main focus of the training was on trends in the modern media sphere, as well as the specifications of Russian platforms. Under the guidance of Russian media experts and experts from the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN), participants learned how to create trending content, mastered working with neural networks, and learned methods for fact-checking in different cultural and linguistic environments.
"The content center created as a result of the WYF Directorate will serve not only for the continuous exchange of experience and professional growth of media specialists, but also for the dissemination of positive content among foreign youth aimed at promoting the ideas of preserving historical memory, traditional values, equality of states, and a multipolar world," Dmitry Ivanov, General Director of the World Youth Festival Directorate, says.
Among the speakers at the event were Lily Ong, GFCN expert, geopolitics and cybersecurity analyst at Geopolitics360, Alexander Skatsky, neural network expert and head of the targeting department at ANO “Dialog Regions”, and other experts.
"Your freedom of speech must be protected, but it can also be restricted if it affects the security of the state and its citizens. It is important to protect society from such threats. It is the duty of every country to combat fakes," Alexandre Guerreiro, program expert , PhD in international law from Portugal, says.
The general partners of the WYF Assembly-2025 are the Russian Music Union, JSC Russian Railways, and Phygital Games. The general information partner is the international television channel RT, and the general media partner is ANO Dialog Regions. The partner for the excursion and regional programs is the More Than Trip program. The strategic partner is VK Tech. Co. The following have also joined the partnership program: “New Generation” program arranged by the Federal Agency for Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Residing Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), the Movement of the First, the presidential platform “Russia – Country of Opportunities”, Sovcombank, the Avito Tech. Co., State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, Russian “Znanie” (Knowledge) Society, the Film Studio Soyuzmultfilm, the Government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Central Bank of Russia, program for young entrepreneurs “Rosmolodezh.Undertake” and the Mashuk Knowledge Center. Information support for the event is provided by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Argumenty i Fakty publishing house, the African Initiative and the Window to Russia project of ANO “TV-Novosti”.
The organizer of the World Youth Festival Assembly is the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), the co-organizer of the event is the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region and the event operator is the World Youth Festival Directorate. The Festival pursues the goals of the Youth and Children national project.
Overview:
In accordance with the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on preserving and developing the legacy of the World Youth Festival, which took place on the Sirius Federal Territory in 2024 and united 20,000 young people from 190 countries of the world, festival events on the territory of the Russian Federation will be held annually. The next World Youth Festival for 20,000 participants will be held in 2030. In 2026, there will be a smaller event, an International Youth Festival with 10,000 participants. In between, the World Youth Festival’s themed Assemblies will be held annually for 2,000 participants. The World Youth Festival Directorate continues its work aimed at strengthening international youth cooperation.
