In Moscow, on the sidelines of the II World Public Assembly at the World Trade Center, the first ambassadors of the World of Traditional Values were elected. They were representatives of France, Benin, Cyprus, Turkmenistan, Malaysia, and Tajikistan.
As TASS was told by the organizers — the World Peoples Assembly and the ANO “Innovative Center for the Development and Education of Children and Youth”, the first ambassadors were Frenchwoman Alfiya Fabr, head of the Russian-language theater “Russian Children of Montpellier”, and Anicet Gabriel Kochofa — laureate of the First International Bridge Awards in the category “Public Activity and Charity” and former ambassador of Benin to Russia.
The list also included Cypriot public figure Mikis Filaniotis, as well as Batyr Sultanov from Turkmenistan, Maria Iezhitsa from Malaysia, and Ahmad Akhmedov from Tajikistan. All three are winners of the International competition “Tell the World About Your Homeland”.
The organizers presented the concept of the new community on the sidelines of the assembly in Moscow. The head of the Innovative Center, Ekaterina Averkieva, spoke about the idea, and Filaniotis proposed a special manifesto, which was discussed for several hours and then signed.
According to the document, the community’s mission is to unite people from different countries who, through education, culture, youth initiatives, and public diplomacy, help preserve traditional values, strengthen friendship and good relations, mutual respect among peoples for their identity, and the formation of a sustainable peace without striving to standardize sociocultural norms. The discussion was attended by the president of the Kyrgyz foundation “Meirim Shoolasy” Meirim Subanbekova, Deputy Minister of Education of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Natalya Soldatova, Jordanian parliamentarian and head of the “Jordan — Russia” Friendship Committee Abdelhad Al-Breizat, as well as coordinator of the Immortal Regiment in Madrid and president of the Association “Comprehensive Development of Cooperation between Russia and Spain” Viktoria Samoilova.
The organizers said that the competition “Tell the World About Your Homeland” has already brought together more than 30,000 young participants from 96 countries. In 2026, at the initiative of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, the project “Russia — a Country of Traditional Values” reached the international level.
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