named after yanka kupala hosted the republican youth festival-competition media sphere 2024. the key theme of the participants’ works sounded like belarus, the year of quality, the year of mastery of creativity. the festival began with an opening ceremony, followed by viewing and discussion of the finalists' creative works. during the discussion of projects, authors could ask questions to members of the jury and receive competent comments from specialists. please note that there is a competition at the festival. media spheres received more than 150 applications from all over the country. we can be proud of such bright, active, purposeful youth. perhaps these are our future journalist colleagues. maybe, indeed, we know that your next news will also be about young people. yes, but it is sports, for example, chess competitions for the prizes of the belarusian peace foundation were held in grodny. the tournament brought together students from first and second grades, general education and specialized. youth sports schools. a regional tournament called chess world allowed boys a