President of the organisation
Lyudmila Leonidovna Sekacheva
Author and director of international and regional cultural and educational projects.
Full biography
President of BRICS. World of Traditions
Education
Technical secondary education: Moscow Radio Equipment Engineering Technical College (MRAST), now the Moscow State College of Information Technology (MGKIT).
Higher technical education: Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (MIREA).
Humanities education: University of Marxism-Leninism, Faculty of the History and Theory of Soviet and Foreign Cinema.
Professional, public and charitable work
Researcher at the All-Union Research Institute of Cinematography and Photography (NIKFI) for 25 years.
Work in the State Duma (1996–2010): assistant to State Duma deputy P. B. Shelishch (1996–1999); member of staff of the Committee on Labour and Social Policy (1999–2003); assistant to A. A. Tyagunov, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Culture (2004–2010).
From 2004 to 2015, author and director of numerous international and regional projects and programmes.
Areas of work
Developing and implementing initiatives to support individuals, public associations and non-profit organisations; providing social and moral support to people in difficult circumstances; and offering long-term personal material and emotional support to children without parental care and veterans of war and labour.
Cultural and educational promotion of moral values and kind, respectful dialogue among people of different nationalities and faiths through creativity.
Implementation of around 120 charitable, social and educational international and interregional projects and programmes to protect and promote national cultural values, develop people-to-people diplomacy and international peacebuilding, provide patriotic and moral education to children and young people, and protect nature and animals.
This work was carried out with assistance from Russia’s Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossotrudnichestvo, State Duma and Moscow City Duma deputies, regional governments and administrations in Moscow, St Petersburg, Moscow Region, Leningrad Region, Tver, Tula, Lipetsk and Arkhangelsk regions, Altai Krai and the Nenets Autonomous District, and several foreign embassies in Russia.
Public activities
Member of the Presidium of the Public Council of Moscow’s Northern Administrative District until 2015; participant in BRICS Civil Forums and Civil Forums in Moscow and other Russian regions; delegate to Russian NGO congresses; member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society since 2017.
International cultural work, 2008–2015
Organiser of the Russian cultural programme at the Economic Forum in Krynica, Poland (2008–2012).
Co-organiser of the Russian cultural programme at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (2011–2012).
Co-organiser of the 2013 Biennale in Uzbekistan, with children and young people from Russia’s Nenets Autonomous District.
Organiser of the international initiative Let Us Fill People’s Hearts with Kindness in Abkhazia (2012).
Co-organiser of the international children’s and youth festival Victory Parade in Israel to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.
Director and organiser of the long-term international cultural and educational programme Parade of the Creative Heritage of Russia and India since 2008. The programme was presented in New Delhi, the Kullu Valley at the Roerich estate in Naggar, and Mumbai in 2010. Around ten projects in Russia and India were supported by Russia’s Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossotrudnichestvo and the Indian Embassy in Moscow.
Director and organiser of the international and interregional Open Your Heart to Kindness project, promoting moral values and the philosophy of non-violence. The project centres on the exhibition Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi: a Unique Heritage, illustrating their correspondence on non-violence. Since 2009, it has been implemented in twelve Russian regions, from the Nenets Autonomous District to Altai Krai, and presented at the Indian Embassy in Moscow.
In 2016, she established and became head of the regional public organisation BRICS. World of Traditions. Its main goal is to unite non-governmental organisations in the five BRICS countries to support and implement multilateral cultural projects and preserve and promote the cultural heritage, creative legacy and national cultural traditions of BRICS peoples.
The newly established organisation was officially presented at the Diplomatic Academy of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 27 October 2016, with representatives of the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossotrudnichestvo and several embassies in Russia.
Director of implemented and planned multilateral international and interregional projects and events of BRICS. World of Traditions.
Awards
Honorary Commendation of the State Duma for impeccable public service; Veteran of Labour Medal; VDNKh Medal.
Around 150 certificates, diplomas and commendations from Russia’s Ministry of Culture, the State Duma Committee on Culture, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, several foreign embassies in Russia, governments and administrations of twelve Russian regions, and state and non-profit organisations.
Public award Recognition and international public award For Friendship between Russia and India.
Around 100 publications in national and regional newspapers and magazines, and interviews on leading television channels.
Projects are carried out under the patronage of Russia’s Ministry of Culture, with information and organisational support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossotrudnichestvo, BRICS embassies in Russia and Russian embassies in BRICS countries, and financial support from the organisation’s partners.
