Ella Pamfilova at the Knowledge.First marathon: "The election of the President of Russia is the most important political event in the modern history of our country"

The Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, talked with young people at the Knowledge.First educational marathon of the Russian Knowledge Society, which takes place at the World Youth Festival. The meeting with the guys took place on March 6 in the pavilion Moscow of the World Youth City. The marathon participants were very interested in the modern digital solutions that the CEC uses during the elections.

Ella Pamfilova spoke about the formation and development of the Russian electoral system, standards for organizing and conducting voting. The audience learned how modern digital solutions were being implemented, the "Mobile Voter" mechanism, remote electronic voting and a video surveillance system appeared. 

"The current election of the President of Russia is the most important political event in the recent history of our country. Our future depends on how they proceed. This will determine the vector of movement towards a multipolar world," Ella Pamfilova said.

According to the lecturer, the Russian electoral system is independent and unique. The chairman of the CEC clarified that she depends only on the assessments of voters. The CEC is doing a lot of work to increase confidence in the elections. We are talking about maximum openness and transparency of the electoral system for civil control.

The CEC Chairman also added that the role of youth in the modern electoral system is growing. "We work systematically with the younger generation. Contrary to popular belief that young people are apolitical, a quarter of the voters who come to the polls are young people," Ella Pamfilova stressed.      

The lecture participants asked the speaker questions with interest, being interested in digital technologies introduced by the CEC, as well as many other topics.   

A participant from Krasnodar asked the Chairman of the CEC of Russia what politically literate youth means to her and how the current generation is more literate than the previous one. "We are all now, both adults and young people, as if we are rediscovering the world. All the masks have slipped the collective West. Total propaganda is being conducted against our country, and young people understand this well," explained the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia.

A participant from the Republic of Belarus asked how much people trust electronic voting now. According to the speaker, there are about 59% of those in our country who trust electronic voting, and the work to increase trust is constantly developing and does not stand still.    

Meeting of Ella Pamfilova and youth at the Knowledge.First marathon took place within the framework of the thematic track "We stand together with Russia", which is dedicated to international cooperation, including higher education opportunities for Russian and foreign students, joint projects, technological developments, space as a space for international cooperation. 

Also on March 6, on the final day of the Knowledge.First educational marathon, the lecturers of the thematic track "We stand together with Russia" were Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova and Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Executive Office - Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Oleg Matitsyn, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov, Governor of Zaporizhzhya region Evgeny Balitsky, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin, and other prominent people.

The Knowledge Society is a general partner of the educational program of the World Youth Festival, and the educational Znanie.Pervye marathon is one of the main events of this program. The most striking presentations of lecturers can be seen on the 24-hour media channel https://russia.znanierussia.ru/tv/Znanie.TV.

The educational marathon takes place in Sirius and covers six venues of the World Youth City: WYF International Airport, Yamal, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Belgorod, Moscow pavilions. The tracks of the educational marathon are consonant with the meanings of the Festival: “Responsibility for the fate of the world”, “Multinational unity”, “A world of opportunity for everyone”, “Saving the family for future generations” and “We stand together with Russia”. 

In addition to the Knowledge.First educational marathon, as part of the educational program of the World Youth Festival, the Society "Knowledge" organized the intellectual tournament Knowledge.Game, Knowledge.Cinema Lectorium, screenings of performances together with the Tavrida Art Cluster. For the Festival participants a multimedia exhibition of the National Photo Contest Znanie.Russia will work, where they will be able to see the main achievements of Russia in the XXI century and immerse themselves in their atmosphere with the help of augmented reality technology. 

The World Youth Festival shall become a platform for communication between young people from Russia and other countries. After the completion of the events on the Sirius Federal Territory, Russian Knowledge Society will continue the educational line of the World Youth Festival from March 10 to 17 within the framework of the regional program WYF 2024, which will cover all federal districts of our country.

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Overview:

The World Youth Festival is held in accordance with the Decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin to develop international youth cooperation. At the first meeting of the Organizing Committee chaired by Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration, it was decided to hold the Festival in the Sirius Federal Territory.

20,000 young leaders in education, science, international cooperation, culture, volunteering, charity, sports, business, media, etc., including 10,000 foreign participants, will take part in the WYF 2024. For the first time in the history of the festival movement, teenagers from 14 to 17 years old had the opportunity to join the event, including 500 from Russia and 500 from abroad. 5,000 volunteers from all regions of Russia, including 228 residents of the LPR, DPR, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Regions be involved in the organization and delivery of the Festival. The organizer of the World Youth Festival is the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), the operator of the WYF-2024 is the Directorate of the World Youth Festival.

The first federal education marathon was held in May 2021 and became a symbol of the reboot of the Russian Knowledge Society. More than 850 lecturers shared their experience during the marathon.

The Russian Knowledge Society traces its history back to the Soviet public organization founded in 1947 on the initiative of representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia as the All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge (since 1963 — the All-Union Knowledge Society, since 1991— the Knowledge of Russia Society). Members of the Society were engaged in popularizing science and lecturing on the achievements of the Soviet economy and industry. In 2016, Knowledge of Russia was transformed into the Russian Knowledge Society. On April 21, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the need to restart the Russian Knowledge Society on a modern digital platform in his address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.