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A key event of the first exhibition day of Mir Detstva 2021, opened at Expocentre Fairgrounds along with and CJF – Child and Junior Fashion 2021. Autumn, has become the Conference on the Impact of Games, Toys, and Visual Content on the Patriotic Upbringing of Children. It was held also within EXPO-Forum on Children's Goods Industry 2021. Revival. 

The event was organised by the Expert Council on Culture of the Youth Parliament under the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly, the National Project Support Fund for Educational and Upbringing Initiatives with the support of EXPOCENTRE AO. According to the organisers, the conference aims to promote patriotic upbringing of the younger generation, the formation of a culture of leisure for children by providing pre-school educational institutions with Russian products - games, toys - to help foster a patriot and citizen, as well as promoting thematic visual content.

The conference was moderated by Elena Kalgina, Executive Director of the National Project Support Fund for Educational and Upbringing Initiatives member of the Expert Council on Upbringing under the Education and Science Committee of the State Duma, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Pobeda TV channel, member of the Council on Culture of the Youth Parliament under the State Duma. 

The conference participants - representatives of the children's goods industry, youth and public patriotic organisations, the Main Military and Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, and military history museums - devoted their speeches and comments to such topics as: "The role of creative industries in patriotic education", "Educating a patriot by involvement in history", "The manufacturers' experience. Products presented at Mir Detstva”.

As Alexander Solonkin, Chairman of the Expert Council on Culture of the Youth Parliament under the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation noted in his video address to the conference participants: "Today we are responsible for what trends are formed by young people and children. In the epoch of information explosion, when social networks set trends in terms of youth leaders. We and you are responsible for the development of creative industries, responsible for patriotic upbringing of youth and cooperation between government and business in this". In his opinion, now "there is a severe lack of nationally oriented toys, cartoons and fairy tales". 

Dmitry Matyushenkov, Chairman of the Legislative Council of the Youth Parliament under the the State Duma, addressed the conference and paid special attention to the content of modern computer games played by children and young people. According to him, computer games are a great platform to tell about your country, its culture and form a certain worldview in users. But today, computer games, created in the West, are dominated by messages that are foreign and even hostile to our country. According to Dmitry Matyushenkov, it is possible to counteract such negativity by creating positive content about our country, its rich history and culture. "But, unfortunately, we do not have such content today," he stated. 

During the conference, the patriotic collection of children's and youth clothes “Flowers of War” was presented by students of Ivanovo State Polytechnic University. The collection was created by a group of sophomores and is dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The novice designers were inspired by the works of artists and poets from the Ivanovo region. 

The audience was also greatly interested in the performance of Vladimir Surovtsev, People's Artist of Russia, member of the Public Council of the Russian Ministry of Culture; Elena Shkarupa, Depeche Mode brand owner and industrial designer; Mikhail Shchegortsov, advisor to the general director of the Red Square Media Holding; Alexander Mischenko, deputy head of the Military Patriotic Work and Cooperation with Public Associations Directorate of the Main Military and Political Department of the Armed Forces, and other participants. 

The proposals made at the conference will be summarised and sent to the federal executive authorities and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. 

Press Service, EXPOCENTRE AO