Getting to Know the Conference Participants

Another international participant in our conference is Irina Timofeevna Budrina, president of the Association of Compatriots in Romania, “OUR WORLD.” Last year, she organized and held () the amazing photo exhibition “The Soul of Russia”, which was a tremendous success with Romanians.

Today, both in Russia and abroad, people are interested not so much in the polished, albeit truthful, but still promotional picture of the two capitals or the country's million-plus cities, as in the life and everyday realities of the hinterland and its residents. At the same time, interest in authentic cultural codes and traditions is growing. After all, the beauty of folk art—local crafts, architecture, folk costume, and everyday culture—fully reflects the Russian character and the soul of the people.

That is why people and organizations engaged in people-to-people diplomacy in Russia increasingly favor the realism of the Russian hinterland to reveal Russia's cultural code to audiences abroad. And this has a remarkable effect. Irina Budrina will speak about this in her presentation.

We look forward to seeing you on February 6 at 10:30 at 2 Nizhnyaya Radishchevskaya Street, Moscow, at the House of Russian Abroad. 

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