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MOSCOW, 15 August (BelTA) - A unique art project “Three Sophias” kicked off in Veliky Novgorod, Russia on 15 August, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation.

During the plain airs the young artists from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine will paint St. Sophia Cathedrals in Veliky Novgorod (Russia), Polotsk (Belarus) and Kiev (Ukraine). The paintings will be then displayed during an exhibition which will open in Polotsk on 2 September and will be timed to coincide with the 1155th anniversary of the town and the 500th anniversary of the Belarusian book printing.

From Belarus the exhibition will move to Kiev where it will be exhibited at the Ukrainian Fund of Culture. Russian viewers will be able to see the exhibition during the CIS Forum of Creative and Scientific Intellectuals to be held in Moscow at the end of November.

The event is implemented with the support of the CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation, within the framework of the Minsk Initiative international humanitarian project. The project that has been running for three years has shown that representatives of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are wiling to maintain a cultural dialogue. The project has become the mechanism of interaction of the intellectuals of the three countries and the basis for new joint humanitarian projects,” the fund informed.