Tell the World about Your Homeland Contest: a bridge of cooperation in the face of geopolitical challenges

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12:07; 24 August 2025 year
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The current geopolitical conditions impose significant restrictions on international contacts in the scientific, cultural and sports fields. While some States are discussing new restrictive measures, others are seeking to develop cooperation in the humanitarian field at various levels. Thus, various international creative competitions are organized at the site of the Russian National Center in Moscow to form friendly ties between young people from different countries.

In June 2025, the award ceremony for the winners of the VII International Competition "Tell the world about your Homeland" took place.

7 407 works by children, teenagers and youth groups from 54 countries were selected to participate in the competition. The largest number of creative materials came from Transnistria, Qatar, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, South Ossetia, China, and Belarus. Representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy, Georgia and Turkey also took part in the competition.

The total coverage of the contestants involved in the project, their creative mentors, teachers and experts exceeded 100,000 specialists. And the expert council and the competition jury included 125 experts - educators, university professors and public figures from 6 countries.

Both the geography, age, and national composition of the contestants turned out to be as wide as possible. The competition brought together young people and adults from hundreds of nations from all over the world. When preparing entries, participants from different age categories chose the most interesting events, traditions, and memorable places of their Homeland and told their compatriots and foreign peers about them in the format of various nominations, videos, drawings, or presentations.

The winners of the competition were awarded by prominent Russian government and public figures, as well as representatives of the diplomatic corps and business circles of other countries.

"p>gt; So, in the nomination "With love for the new Homeland" of Russia, special participants Joseph Schutzman and Madeleine Sorlin were awarded. Joseph has a wonderful extended family who found their home in Russia after moving to America. Madeleine came to live in Russia with her family from France.

The winner in the nomination "Tell the world about your Homeland" was Akhmedova Shohmira from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The participant told about her favorite holiday, Navruz, and how it is celebrated in Uzbekistan.

Other participants raised issues of religion, and in their works they said that faith is the main tool for consolidating Russian society.

In total, more than 60 talented children, teenagers and adults from more than 22 countries became winners.

Foreign experts noted the high level of organization of the contest, its participants demonstrated the youth's commitment to the ideas of friendship and unity of peoples, as well as to a just world free from violence and conflict.

International public associations have demonstrated unwillingness to take into account the politicized position of individual Western countries on the issue of Russia's comprehensive isolation in the humanitarian sphere, which confirms the active participation of representatives of various countries in the international event.

The politicized monopoly of European democratic movements and associations, as well as the unjustified blocking of individual countries from world events, are exhausting themselves as instruments of political pressure.

Currently, the national center "Russia" is hosting the "Country of Traditional Values" competition. Acceptance of works is carried out until October 20, 2025.

Within the framework of the competition, participants are invited to study traditional Russian values, form their own understanding of their importance, prepare an author's work explaining their semantic content, as well as commit an act that manifests traditional Russian values in life.