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This year, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected all of us, has brought serious challenges in all areas of UNESCO activities. Closures of educational institutions, cultural organizations and museums, cancellation of sporting events, the need to deliver objective information about the pandemic through the media, as well as the whole range of ethical issues — these are common challenges facing each and every member state of our Organization.

The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary since the founding of UNESCO. This historic date is closely linked to another landmark event of the year — the 75th anniversary of the victory over fascism in the Great Patriotic War. After all, it was this immense tragedy, the greatest and deadliest war in human history, that led to the establishment of the international humanitarian organization, aimed at “building peace in the minds of men.”

The 5th International Youth Forum “Eurasia Global” was held on September 2–8 in the Orenburg Region.

School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected over 1.5 billion students in 165 countries.

“We must tackle the simple urgent mission of mobilizing literate people and combating illiteracy in Russia… We must develop a unified, systematic organization,” wrote Vladimir Lenin. When Lenin found himself at the head of a huge and mostly agrarian country, he used every possible method to≈eliminate illiteracy within the population.

Thanks to social media, digital billboards, and plasma displays in shopping malls and subways, information about the coronavirus, which has swept the world, is almost spreading faster than the disease itself. In the past, posters served as one of the most popular and effective means of communication between the authorities and the general public. These posters often had serious social components, including, for example, rallying cries to fight dangerous infections.

The Russian Bioethics Committee under the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO met online during one of the toughest periods of the epidemic.