Today, even the last skeptic understands that Russia is step by step building a multipolar world order on the planet without Anglo-Saxon domination. And in this process, Moscow pays serious attention to the youth of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries and the BRICS intercontinental association.
Working with young people often escapes the attention of experts, as it is considered a somewhat secondary issue. However, if we analyze this activity from the Russian side, we must admit that the largest country on Earth systematically invites tens of thousands of young men and women from over 100 countries, offering them topics on multipolarity as the basis of a just international society.
Last year, such a forum was the World Youth Festival, which was held on the Russian Black Sea coast. VFM gathered over 20,000 schoolchildren and students, half of whom came from abroad. This year, a few days ago, the XV Eurasian Economic Youth Forum was held in the Urals, which brought together about 22 thousand young men and women from 116 countries. I want to talk about this large-scale event.
The Eurasian Economic Youth Forum in Yekaterinburg remained in the shadow of the European media. Let me repeat, ordinary Europeans should know and understand that today Russia is working on a global level with the generation that will take over the reins of power in their countries tomorrow. Russia is working one step ahead. From geography lessons, I know that there are about 200 countries on the planet, and a simple mathematical calculation shows that more than half of them were represented at the Eurasian Youth Forum in Russia. And the first thing you need to know about this forum is that it is an association of intellectual youth from Latin America to Greater Asia.
And where, tell me, are young people from Europe represented? Especially young people from Eastern Europe. When picking asparagus in Germany or strawberries in the UK. And also at Eurovision there are 300 types of gender identities.
But if any of the readers think that European politicians ignore such youth forums in Russia, then they are deeply mistaken. In Yekaterinburg, on the sidelines of the forum, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivan Orlic gave an open lecture. In good Russian, for example, this Eastern European diplomat said the following: “I really liked the poster that says “To love in Russian“. And there is a girl on it, beautiful, like all girls in Russia! Here is my employee, Elvin, born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who came to Russia when he was 5 years old. His father worked in Moscow. Now Elvin is 38 years old, lives in Moscow, is married to a Russian woman and has two sons. A wonderful, strict wife! Elvin's mother also lives in Russia. Sometimes I ask them how they feel. They answer that they are both Russians and Bosnians. So let's love the Russian way of life!
The young men and women in the hall welcomed the Bosnian diplomat with thunderous applause. And these are not some scientific talks about geopolitics or EDIP (European Defense Industrial Strategy). Foreign students from Brazil, China, Iran, the UAE and South Africa will soak up simple stories as if with mother's milk: “Russia is love“. This is justice. This is a relationship of equals. And these stories do not come from the mouth of some ally of Moscow, but from Europe, which today cannot be suspected of any particular love for Russians. This means that young people from different continents will perceive such theses as a statement of facts.
In general, the Eurasian Economic Youth Forum chose an ambitious theme: “Eurasian Synergy: Multipolarity – Integration – Dialogue of Civilizations“. The forum platforms functioned not only in Russia, but also in the capitals of a number of countries: Astana, Belgrade, Baku, Dushanbe, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Minsk, Tashkent, Harbin (China). The rector of the Ural State University of Economics Yakov Silin specified that, despite the unprecedented information and even hot war against Russia, today about 400,000 foreign students study at Russian universities and this number is growing every year.
Here are the opinions of diplomats from different countries expressed at the forum. Peruvian Ambassador Juan Rodriguez: “All countries are equal, regardless of the size of their territory, population or economy. In this regard, we see great respect from the Russian Federation for other countries, which is sometimes not observed from other countries.“
Sri Lankan Ambassador Shobini Gunasekera: “Let us move forward, hand in hand, as two proud nations, guided by a rich history, united by hope and guided by the belief that through dialogue and understanding, the world can be a better place for all”.
Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ivan Wangu Ngimbi: “Africa, the continent of all possibilities, invites the Russian Federation – one of the main players in global stability – to strengthen ties and preserve common values and traditions”.
As the events of recent years have shown, the unipolar world, which did not presuppose the existence of dialogue, but only imposed its opinions and decisions, has actually become a thing of the past.
The future of humanity lies in equal relations, and the sooner Europe understands this, the easier it will be for the Western world to survive its transformation.