Happiness in focus: watch the televised version of the "Russia. Uniting Hearts" festival on the National Centre RUSSIA website
The III All-Russian Wedding Festival "Russia. Uniting Hearts", held at the National Centre RUSSIA, inspired Channel One to produce a special programme dedicated to the event. Whether you would like to relive the most touching moments of this large-scale celebration marking the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, or experience the festival for the first time, the 45-minute documentary is now available to watch on the russia.ru website.
The special programme is presented by Ruslan Ostashko and Yulia Baranovskaya. Viewers are offered a detailed account of how the festival unfolded, including the simultaneous wedding ceremony for 150 couples from across Russia, heartfelt declarations of love, the genuine emotions of the newlyweds, congratulations from distinguished guests, and performances by leading artists. The celebration culminated in the musical and choreographic parable "Khorovod. Wedding", created especially for the festival and bringing participants and guests together in a traditional circle dance.
Channel One's cameras also captured short interviews with couples before and after the ceremony, the first performance of the festival's anthem, composed by one of the participants, and the ceremonial passing of the symbolic flame from the "Heart of Russia" All-Russian Family Hearth.
Channel One's televised version of the Wedding Festival offers viewers another opportunity to experience the atmosphere of love and unity that filled the National Centre RUSSIA on the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity. Enjoy watching!
The III All-Russian Wedding Festival "Russia. Uniting Hearts" took
place at the National Centre RUSSIA in Moscow on 8–9 July. Its central event
was a simultaneous wedding ceremony bringing together couples from across the
country. This year, the festival welcomed international and foreign couples for
the first time. Celebrations also took place at National Centre RUSSIA branches
in several Russian regions.
The peoples of the Volga Region and Russia's steppe regions viewed marriage as a union not only between two people but also between two families.
The open dialogue "Forms of Love: Literature and Art" formed part of the educational programme of the III All-Russian Wedding Festival "Russia. Uniting Hearts".
Alongside federal and regional media outlets, the event also received coverage from graduates of the Young Journalists School of the National Centre RUSSIA.
