Forum April 27, 2026

Sovintern — for socialism in the XXI century

House of Unions11:00

Forum schedule

Opening of the day

10:00(GMT+3)
Registration

Registration of forum participants. Welcome coffee break / Press approaches

Plenary session

11:00(GMT+3)
Plenary session

Grand opening of the forum


Moderators:

Irina Abramova

Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the RAS

Dmitry Petrov

Polyglot, TV host, culturologist


Speakers:

Vladimir Putin

Welcoming address from the President of the Russian Federation

Sergey Mironov

Chairman of the Socialist Party A JUST RUSSIA

Zakhar Prilepin

Deputy Chairman of the Socialist Party A JUST RUSSIA, writer, serviceman

Christopher Helali

Secretary of International Relations of the American Communist Party

Alexander Babakov

Chairman of the Organising Committee of the First International Socialist Forum SOVINTERN — For Socialism in the XXI Century, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, First Deputy Chairman of the Socialist Party A JUST RUSSIA

Speeches by delegates from co-initiating parties

Crispin Kabasele Tshimanga Babanya

Honorary Senator of the DRC, Chairman of the Union of Democratic Socialists

Bojan Vulin

Chairman of the Committee on International Cooperation, Board member of the Movement of Socialists (Serbia)

Said Bakkali

Secretary of International Relations, Politburo member of the Party of Progress and Socialism (Morocco)

Snoussi Dabbabi

Politburo member of the Tunisia Forward movement

George Galloway

Leader of the Workers Party of Britain

Bogdan Țîrdea

Member of Parliament, member of the Political Council of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova

Arling Alonso

Deputy, Vice-Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Nicaragua, Sandinista National Liberation Front

Haz Al-Din

Chairman of the American Communist Party

Speeches by organizers of panel sessions

Dimitrios Patelis

Member of the international working group of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform

Jackson Hinkle

Member of the Executive Council of the American Communist Party

Alexander Vorobyev

General Director of TROPASS LLC

Ivan Andreev

Editor-in-chief of Vashi Novosti, head of the project “Foreign journalists for Russia”

Break

13:00(GMT+3)
Coffee break

Break / Networking / Press approaches

Strategic sessions

14:30(GMT+3)
Strategic session No. 1

“Digital partisans”: political communication in the XXI century


Moderators:

Jackson Hinkle

Member of the Executive Council of the American Communist Party

Bojan Vulin

Chairman of the Committee on International Cooperation of the Movement of Socialists (Serbia)


Speakers:

George Galloway

Leader of the Workers Party of Britain

Haz Al-Din

Chairman of the American Communist Party

Strategic session No. 2

SOVINTERN platform: socialism, social network, artificial intelligence


Moderators:

Alexander Vorobyev

General Director of TROPASS LLC

Periklis Katsoulas

Member of the initiative group of the international socialist network SOVINTERN


Speakers:

Vladimir Lysenko

Deputy Vice-Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Technical Director of TROPASS LLC, developer of the SOVINTERN platform

Vladimir Smirnov

Candidate of Economic Sciences, political analyst, author of the SOVINTERN museum of socialist achievements

Nikolay Novichkov

State Duma deputy from the Socialist Party A JUST RUSSIA, Doctor of Economic Sciences, professor

Strategic session No. 3

The Donbass conflict as a focus of world attention


Moderators:

Vadim Avva

TV journalist, publicist

Crispin Kabasele Tshimanga

Leader of the Union of Democratic Socialists (Democratic Republic of the Congo)


Speakers:

Goran Dimov

Senior advisor of the foreign policy department of The Left party (North Macedonia)

Ivan Andreev

Editor-in-chief of Vashi Novosti, head of the project “Foreign journalists for Russia”

Oleg Moryanin

Writer, military serviceman, participant of the Crimean Spring and the Donbass conflict, international journalist

Olga Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Publicist, philosopher, sinologist

Oleg Yasinsky

International journalist, publicist, Russia correspondent for the Latin American TV channel TeleSUR

Strategic session No. 4

The situation during the Third World War and strengthening the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist front


Moderators:

Igor Orlov

Representative of the initiative group of the international socialist network SOVINTERN


Speakers:

Dimitrios Patelis

Member of the international working group of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform

Nikolai Starikov

Member of the Presidium of the Central Council of the Socialist Party A JUST RUSSIA, publicist

Liu Xu

Deputy Director of the Russian Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China; senior researcher at the Institute of Regional Countries

Booker Ngesa Omole

General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist – Kenya (CPM-K)

Aleksandar Djenić

Executive Secretary of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Miguel Alexander Escobar

General Secretary of the SIRAC trade union association

Akar Süleyman

Editor-in-chief of Mücadele Birliği (Union of Struggle)

Ruslan Grebnev

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Global Processes at Lomonosov Moscow State University, professor of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Russian Federation

Jun Sasamoto

President of the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific (COLAP)

Beatriz Bissio

Latin America coordinator of the Spirit of Bandung Movement

Closing

17:30(GMT+3)
Closing

Closing of the forum

Forum broadcast

Starts on April 27 at 11:00 (GMT+3)

Photos

Declarations

  • «On condemnation of aggression against Iran»
  • «On lifting the economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba»
  • «On support for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea»
  • «Africa — compensation for the legacy of colonialism and neocolonialism»
  • «On the settlement of the crisis around Ukraine»
  • «On the immediate release of the legitimate President of Venezuela»