My Homeland is Russia — International Conference

Dear friends, colleagues and partners!

We invite you to take part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference “My Homeland is Russia: A View of Russia from Abroad and a Response to It,” which will be held in Moscow on February 6 from 11:00 to 17:00 at the Russian Abroad House.

The decision to move to Russia is the final stage in a person's quest to find the best place to live and raise children. Before that, they think for a long time, compare and study conditions in different countries. Our compatriots living abroad are guided to a greater extent by their memories of the Motherland and stories from the older generation, who feel nostalgic for their lost homeland. Foreigners seek above all to find people on our soil who are close to them in spirit and moral values.

What image of Russia do they see before them? What is our choice of visual, verbal and contextual images of Russia conveyed to audiences abroad, and how do those audiences perceive these images and meanings in response? After all, today Russia is becoming an ark for all those who disagree with the doctrines of liberal values and want to preserve traditional approaches to family, child-rearing and human rights.

What role do our compatriots abroad play in shaping a new image of Russia? How does Western Russophobia affect the understanding of Russia as a civilization-state and its technological leadership? How should we describe and show a modern, technologically developed Russia that nevertheless preserves its roots and traditions, so that those who come here to become new citizens are precisely the people we want to see?
These and other questions will be addressed in presentations by our participants from Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, South Korea, Tajikistan and other countries.

Conference organizers:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Expert Council of the ANO “Path Home,” Moscow Art and Industrial Institute, Rossotrudnichestvo.