The XV Forum of Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the CIS Member States began its work in Tashkent, bringing together more than 200 delegates.

The topic of the forum is “Humanitarian cooperation - the experience of thirty years and development prospects”, reports khovar.tj.

Within the framework of the forum - a concert of the CIS Youth Symphony Orchestra, which brings together young talented musicians from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The youth orchestra of Uzbekistan will become the base team.

Rasul Klychev, a 34 years old talented musician, winner of many youth awards, laureate of the Türkmeniň Altyn asyry competition, will represent Turkmenistan as a conductor. Together with him, his colleagues will conduct the orchestra on the same stage: People's Artist of Russia Sergey Skripka, Murtaza Bulbul oglu from Azerbaijan and Alibek Kabdurakhmanov from Uzbekistan.

This forum was postponed for 2 years due to the global pandemic. Now the delegates will take part in the general discussion session “Cultural heritage of the Commonwealth countries”, will speak at the discussion platforms “Scientific and educational community of the CIS countries”, “The latest cultural code of the CIS: vectors for the development of cooperation”, “Literature of the Commonwealth countries - new integration mechanisms”, “Cooperation of the youth of the Commonwealth countries”.

An important event will be the presentation of the project “Modern Literature of the CIS countries”, which will be attended by writers from the Commonwealth countries.

The program of the forum also includes the ceremony of presenting the interstate award “Stars of the Commonwealth” and the international award “Commonwealth of Debuts”.

Let us remind that the XIV Forum of Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the CIS Member States was held in Ashgabat in May 2019 within the framework of the chairmanship of Turkmenistan in the Commonwealth of Independent States.