The Southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk is going to host the 2013 Mashuk youth forum. Representatives of all regions of the North Caucasus, Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk Territories, the Volgograd, Leningrad, Kirov and Tver regions, as well as Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Czech Republic, Estonia and South Ossetia are at the forum, RIA Dagestan reports.
Altogether some 2500 people are going to take part in the event, the news agency reports.
The participants are going to discuss issues of politics, economy, tourism, culture, information technologies and healthcare.
The event is expected to be attended by prominent public figures, artists, businessmen and politicians.
