...The 6th Global Forum of Young Diplomats has concluded in the Russian city of Kazan, where participants signed a joint document stressing the importance of advancing efforts to build a fair, polycentric world.

The event, which took place in the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan between August 17 and 21 [2023], was attended by some 130 diplomats from the 40 nations of the former Soviet Union, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the organizers said in a statement on Wednesday. The guests included ambassadors and foreign ministry representatives.

The forum was organized by the Council of Young Diplomats of the Russian Foreign Ministry, with the assistance of Tatarstan's Youth Ministry, the Academy of Youth Diplomacy NGO, and the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund. The theme of this year's gathering was "Diplomacy in a New Multipolar World."...

Participants of the BRICS Business Incubator held in Omsk [RU] got acquainted with each other in an informal atmosphere. It gathered more than 100 people. Businessmen, investors, and representatives of business associations from the [f]ive [founder] countries, as well as from the Central Asian region, discussed which projects would receive their support for starting a business in the BRICS countries. The experts selected 25 out of more than 300 applications for participation in the programme.

These included construction of low-cost housing, nanorobots for the treatment of atherosclerosis, and other developments. The first co-operation agreements have already been signed.