The effective use of soft power in all its forms is another important resource in our work. We intend to cooperate with civil society institutions, the expert community, business circles and mass media. We will actively use the potential of organizations established last year and other opportunities that we have with civil society in addition to traditional diplomatic instruments.

Moscow is hosting a CIS youth forum of public diplomacy today...The main goals for discussions between young people are modern challenges and public youth diplomacy, main trends for cooperation of youth organization on the post-Soviet space, advanced methods and technologies of public diplomacy and social obligations.