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A press conference dedicated to the start of the XIII season of the Moscow International Festival of Arts “Traditions and Contemporaneity” was held at the ITAR TASS press centre. February 2, 2024.
Vera Kiseleva, the organizer of the International Festival of Arts “Traditions and Modernity”, Ekaterina Torubarova, Head of the Public Diplomacy Department of Rossotrudnichestvo, Georgy Volkov, Deputy Chairman of the Commission on Security and Interaction with the Public Monitoring Committee of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist artist of the Russian Federation, sculptor Vladimir Surovtsev and vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts Konstantin Khudyakov.