The fully in-person event attracted 1660 participants from 37 countries, illustrating the need for real-life interactions in the global accelerator landscape after COVID-19.
Earlier this month, hundreds of people gathered as a Russian Orthodox priest blessed a massive monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the town of Velikiye Luki. Former police officer and historian Andrei Ivanov, whose own relatives were repressed under Stalin, was one of the few to object.