The winners of the V National Internet Content Award were announced in Moscow

On May 28, a solemn ceremony of awarding the V National Internet Content Award took place at the Irina Viner Gymnastics Palace. The best creators of socially significant projects were announced in 22 nominations, including 15 main and seven special ones.

The event brought together more than a thousand guests: representatives of government agencies, heads of leading media companies, popular bloggers, artists, musicians, journalists, as well as Award officials from different years who became part of the history of the project. Among the honored guests of the evening: Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Tatyana Golikova, Deputy Prime Minister, Sergey Novikov, Head of the Presidential Department for Public Projects, Oksana Lut, Minister of Agriculture, Maria Zakharova, Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Peter Tolstoy, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Svetlana Balanova, General Director of the National Media Group., head of the Circle of Good Foundation, Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko, CEO of ON Media Holding Sofia Mitrofanova, CEO of Channel One Konstantin Ernst, General Producer of NTV Timur Weinstein, Executive Director of Media holding Rambler&Co Andrey Tsyper, Head of the National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation Elena Malysheva, Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin, Honored Master of Sports, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Rima Batalova, Paralympic champions Alexey Bugaev, Ivan Golubkov, Varvara Voronchikhina and Anastasia Bagiyan, the first female Hero of Russia since the beginning of her career Lyudmila Bolilaya, producers, directors and actors Igor Matvienko, Fedor Bondarchuk, Yuri Sapronov, Yulia Sumacheva, Valeria Guy Germanika, Soslan Fidarov, Milos Bikovich, Polina Gukhman, Grigory Vernik, Andrey Merzlikin, Sergey Marin, Irina Pegova, Ravshana Kurkova, Yanina Studilina, Vadim Vernik, Anna Peskova, Danila Sharapov, Anna Glaube, Alexey Onezhen, Daniel Barnes, journalists, bloggers Maria Chadina, Assol, Artemy Lebedev, Younger, Artur Babich, Anya Pokrov, Natasha Hasankhanova and many others.

"Five years ago, the IRI Award was conceived as a professional award for authors of high-quality Internet content. Today, it is obvious that it has become something more - a reflection of how society and the Russian digital space live. During this time, about 2,700 applications were submitted, more than 100 projects became winners, and a whole community of authors and viewers formed around the Award, for whom it is not hype and formal views that are important, but an honest, meaningful conversation about family, history, heroes of our time, and what really excites people. It is no coincidence that this year's theme is the "Generation of Iran": today it is a generation of talented content creators with meaning and an audience that wants to watch such content," said Alexey Goreslavsky, CEO of Iran.

The solemn ceremony was based on the concept of the "Generation of Iran", reflecting the community of responsible authors and conscious viewers that has formed over the past five years. The theme of the ceremony was revealed in three semantic acts symbolizing the stages of growth in the industry. The program consistently guided viewers along the path of becoming authors: from the moment of the first "Inspiration" to the acquisition of "Mastery" and the creation of a "Legacy". Each chapter was presented by a new pair of presenters.

The first part was conducted by blogger, producer Ida Galich and theater and film actor Gleb Kalyuzhny. For the star of the TV series "Difficult Teenagers", this was the first official appearance on the big stage after completing his military service. In the second act, they were replaced by actress, singer, millionaire blogger Alana Chochieva and theater and film actor Nikita Kologrivy. In the final part of the evening, Honored Artist of Russia Victoria Isakova and People's Artist of Russia Alexey Guskov took the stage as presenters.

The connecting link between the acts and the key meanings of the ceremony were poetic performances by musician, actor, director, and songwriter Alexei Vorobyov, who recited poems by Bella Akhmadulina, Igor Severyanin, and Eduard Asadov. For the fifth year in a row, Sergei Burunov, an actor of theater, cinema and dubbing, acted as the official voice of the National Internet Content Award of Iran.

The program of the ceremony was built around important semantic landmarks for society: multinational unity, the joint contribution of the state, Iran and the digital industry to the development of the Runet and the support of the front. The theme of the special military operation received a special resonance: both in the winning projects and in the personal stories of military personnel and heroes of the SVO who were invited to the Award as honorary guests and recipients.

The musical program of the evening brought together different generations of artists and revealed the ethnocultural diversity of the country. The ceremony was opened by a performance by the Toloka ensemble and the Zventa Sventana folk group: the artists performed the compositions "There flew a peacock", "Porushka-Paranya" and "It's raining outside". Between the acts, the singer Bearwolf performed for the guests with the popular track "Phoenix" and the band Ugli with "Memory Number". In the final of the IRI Award, Diana Arbenina, Akmal and the Choir of the Sretensky Monastery, accompanied by musicians of the symphony orchestra and the Choir of the First performed the song "Young Winds". This performance has become a symbol of unity and vocal mastery, passed down from generation to generation.