Vladimir Pozner(journalist, writer, broadcaster, the first president of the Russian Television Academy) will be asking the questions.

Speakers:

Art

Alexander Sokurov - the film director and a pioneer, writer, Honored Artist of Russia

Andrey Zvyagintsev - film director and screenwriter, winner of the Venice and Cannes Film Festival. Winner of the "Golden Globe" and a nominee for "Oscar"

Pavel Lungin - film director, screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival

Science / Medicine
Tatiana Chernigovskaya - a philologist, linguist, psychologist, expert in psycholinguistics

Mikhail Alshibaya - heart surgeon, Professor, MD, Head of Dep. of Coronary Surgery Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery named A. Bakulev of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Dmitry Petrov - a polyglot, simultaneous interpreter, teacher, presenter - teacher of the reality show "Polyglot" on the TV channel "Culture"

Business / Politics

Alexey Kudrin - economist, statesman

Irina Prokhorova - literary critic, chief editor of the "New Literary Review", the head of the publishing house, TV presenter of channel RBC-TV

Garrett Johnston - Information Technology and Services, creator of innovative marketing strategies

Reporters / design / secular persons

Grigory Revzin - historian, art, architecture critic, journalist and columnist

Leonid Parfenov - journalist, TV presenter, director, five-time winner TEFI award

Alexander Arkhangelsky - literary critic, writer, TV presenter

Out of these, 4 speakers will be selected. The audience of this debate will be 250 guests.