Irada Ayupova in official delegation of the Republic of Tatarstan takes part in the St. Petersburg Economic Forum
As part of the official delegation of the Republic of Tatarstan, headed by RT President R.N. Minnikhanov, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan Irada Ayupova takes part in the work of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
This year, the key topic of the forum is the formation of a sustainable development agenda. The main program of the SPIEF-2019 will run until June 8. All events this year are united by the motto “Forming the agenda for sustainable development”.
More than a thousand diplomats and politicians from China, the United States, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries came to the forum.
SPIEF-2019 is the business dialogues of participants from Russia with representatives of foreign delegations, the regional Business 20 Consultative Forum, the World Energy Council session, the Valdai Club session, the SCO conference and the BRICS conference, etc.
Special attention is paid by the organizers to the cultural program. This year, part of it was the opening of the Artificial Intelligence and the Dialogue of Cultures exhibition at the General Staff Building of the Hermitage, devoted to the artistic possibilities of artificial intelligence. The exposition was organized by the State Hermitage Museum and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) in the framework of the Hermitage 20/21 project.
In addition, every year the St. Petersburg Economic Forum is accompanied by concerts of famous artists, performances. So, today one of the leading operatic tenors of modernity, Andrea Bocelli, and the soloist of the Vienna Opera, Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aida Garifullina, will perform for free on Palace Square.