Guests from South Africa plan to discuss topical questions of their country and issues of BRIC countries’ development during the World Festival of Youth and Students to take place in Sochi, TASS informs.
Around one hundred fifty people will come to Sochi, among them are workers of National Agency for Youth Development, volunteers of public organizations, young businessmen, diplomats and representatives of creative intellectual community.
According to organizers, preparation for the trip goes as planned. They also mentioned that non-visa regime accepted by governments of Russia and South Africa allowed to focus on topical agenda of the trip.
World Festival of Youth and Students is a traditional panel for cultural exchange and personal enrichment of guests and hosts of the festival as well as for acquiring new knowledge about each other. Potential guests of the festival got to know Russian traditions and customs and even attended Russian language lesson, learning necessary expressions and gestures, which might be useful for South Africans.
It is worth reminding that main activities of World Festival of Youth and Students will take place in Sochi next week. The total number of applications from abroad exceeds fifty thousand. Russian young people sent more than sixty-two thousand requests. Twenty thousand guests are planned at the festival, where ten thousand people will come from Russia and the rest will come from abroad.
Trips around Russia are planned for foreigners for the first time. Two thousand guests from abroad will be able to visit fifteen Russian cities as a part of this programme.
Russkiy Mir
