The International Peace Movement "The Spirit of Elba: from the Historic Meeting in 1945 to Joint Projects for a Peaceful Future" will be presented in TASS

The press conference “The International Peace Movement ‘Spirit of the Elbe’: From the Historic 1945 Meeting to Joint Projects for a Peaceful Future” will take place on November 2, 2026, at the TASS Press Center. During the event, strategic initiatives of the International Peace Movement “Spirit of the Elbe” will be presented, combining the preservation of memory of the USSR - US alliance during World War II with the development of modern public diplomacy projects.

Particular attention will be given to the “+10 Seconds” initiative - the implementation of a large-scale project to prevent the nuclear threat, aimed at symbolically and mathematically changing the direction of the Doomsday Clock and moving it 10 seconds away from the point of global catastrophe and the self-destruction of humanity.

Press conference participants and topics of their remarks:

• Andrei Belyaninov - Secretary General of the World Peoples Assembly;

• Joseph Wolf (USA) - public figure, son of Joseph Polowsky, a participant in the historic meeting on the Elbe;

• Peter Kuznick (USA, online) - historian, professor, screenwriter of the documentary series and book “The Untold History of the United States” (director Oliver Stone);
  Topic: The values of the “Spirit of Elbe” as a path to reducing nuclear risks; the global “+10 Seconds” project;

• Andrei Gasirovsky (Poland/Israel) - co-founder and chairman of the board of the international network Helping Hand Coalition;
  Topic: presentation of the public-state project Middle East Global Forum, the concept of the “Bering Strait” cultural hub, the Museum of the “Spirit of Elbe” and Russia - US Friendship;

• Alexey Semyonov - academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education, author of more than 400 scientific works on mathematics, computer science and educational theory;
  Topic: The revival and development of US - Russia scientific and technological cooperation as an urgent necessity for global progress; mathematical models of conflict prevention;

• John Varoli (USA) - journalist, international public relations expert;
  Topic: Global values of US - Russia strategic cooperation (more than 200 years of shared history);

• Valery Ruzin - Deputy Secretary General of the World Peoples Assembly, President of the Vladimir Menshov International Film Festival “Won Together.”

Press conference:

Date: November 2, 2026

Start: 5:00 pm (Moscow time).

The broadcast will be available on the TASS website on the announcement page, as well as in the TASS Press Center group on VK.

Information and accreditation:

+7 (499) 791-0387, +7 (903) 284-2541, press-center@tass.ru.

Address: Russia, Moscow, Tverskoy Boulevard, 2 (TASS Press Center).

For information: media@world-assembly.org.