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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nOn November 26, an International Forum on \u2018The Role of Public Diplomacy in the Development of International Humanitarian Cooperation\u2019 dedicated to the 90th<\/sup> anniversary of \u2018Rossotrudnichestvo\u2019 was held at the President Hotel in Moscow.<\/p>\n
Taking part in the forum were over five hundred delegates from one hundred countries, including representatives of foreign societies for friendship with Russia, public authorities and mass media, as well as parliamentarians, workers of culture an s experts in the Russian language and literature.<\/p>\n
Greetings were sent to the participants from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Chair of the Council of Federation Valentina Matvienko, Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, and Special Presidential Envoy for international cultural cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy.<\/p>\n
The Russian Orthodox Church was represented by the Very Revd. Lev Semenov, head of the spiritual and educational centre of St. Tikhon\u2019s Orthodox Humanitarian University, and hierodeacon Roman (Kiselev), of the secretariat for far abroad countries of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations.<\/p>\n
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The history of public diplomacy began in 1925 when the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS) was established. It was transformed into the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries in 1958, and in 1994 – into Roszarubezhtsentr which devolved power on the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (\u2018Rossotrudnichestvo\u2019).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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