| An Executive Committee meeting and an Extraordinary meeting
of the General Assembly of International Federation of Liberal
Youth (IFLRY) will take place in St.Petersburg on August 6-8.
Representatives from over 40 countries will come to St.Petersburg.
The meeting will be opened by Bart Woord, IFLRY President,
Nikolai Rybakov, deputy head of St.Petersburg YABLOKO’s branch
and Alexander Gudimov, Chair of St.Petersburg Youth YABLOKO.
The participants will discuss development of democracy and
liberalism.
Several panels will be devoted to Russia:
- Human Rights and Democracy in Russia (August 6 at 6-7 p.m.).
Speakers: professor of the Euroepan University Dr.Nikita Lomakin,
Natalya Evdokimova, Executive Secretary of St.Petersburg Human
Rights Council, Sasha Tamm, head of the Moscow Friedrich Naumann
Foundation and Jens Christian Lutken, head of Danish Initiative
in Support of Freedom and Democracy.
- Understanding the Kremlin (August 7 at 2-4 p.m.). Speakers:
Professor from the Higher School of People’s Arts Dr.Oleg
Ilyin and Professor of Political Science of St.Petersburg
University Rashid Gaiutdinov.
- Non-violent Reisitance (August 7 at 2-4 p.m.). Speakers
political psychologist Alexei Shustov and public activist
Alexander Khanuman.
- Russia in the 21st Century (August 8 at 10-11 a.m.). Speaker
public activist Gerigory Liparteliani.
The participants of the GA will also discuss the current
issues of IFLRY and adopt a number of resolutions.
The EC and GA meetings will be preceeded by a seminar You(th)
Are Part of the Discussion, which started on August 2.
IFLRY - International Federation of Liberal Youth was established
in 1979 and is the successor of the World Federation of Liberal
and Radical Youth (created in 1947). IFLRY joins together
over 90 organisations from all the continents. IFLRY policies
are based on the belief in the universality and indivisibility
of human rights, free and tolerant society without any form
of discrimination, with equal opportunities, respect for the
individual and the minorities. According to the federation,
these goals can only be reached through a democratic system
of governance.
As liberals and radicals IFLRY is in favour of a market economy
operating within the limits of a fair distribution of wealth
and ecological sustainability. IFLRY and YABLOKO are full-fledged
members of Liberal International.
IFLRY has been closely cooperating with the Youth YABLOKO
for several years.
EC and GA meetings will take place in the hotel “St.Petersburg”
(Pirogovskaya embankment 5/2). The opening will take place
on August 6 at 5 p.m.
See also:
YABLOKO
Sister Parties
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