The President and his wife were present at the inauguration ceremony of the international youth meeting “Baltic Star” at the Central Recreation Park of St Petersburg near the Yelagin Palace. Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin welcomed the young people, wished success to their forum and posed for pictures with them.
The international youth meeting “Baltic Star”, which began during the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg, is being held on the initiative of the Moscow Centre for the Development of the Russian Language. The meeting is a sequel to last year’s youth exchanges between Russia and Germany. It has been decided to expand the project this year by including nine more countries (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark). The participants in the “Baltic Star” meeting are winners and laureates of various contests and creative projects.
After the opening of the forum Vladimir Putin and the President’s Envoy to the North-Western Federal District took a short walk to the Russian leader’s residence in St Petersburg, during which Valentina Matviyenko described the programme of festive events organised to mark the city’s anniversary.