Yu. I. MOSKALEV Sri Chinmoy Moscow Center Keywords: international relay race "Peace Run", Sri Chinmoy, sports and spirituality, philosophy of peace I was smart yesterday, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Sri Chinmoy On May 9, 2014, the international relay race "Run of the World" started in Sochi. Participants of the Olympic-style relay race carried a torch, the Torch of Peace, passing it from runner to runner, through villages and cities to Tomsk. Runners who started their journey in Kazakhstan, Vladivostok, Smolensk and St. Petersburg also carried Peace Torches to Tomsk. The relay covered approximately 19500 km on the territory of Russia. From Tomsk on August 9, the message of Peace went with runners to Mongolia and-via China, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia - to New Zealand. There the relay race will finish solemnly. In total, more than a hundred countries took part in the World Run 2014 relay. On the day of the relay's arrival, celebrations dedicated to friendship and peaceful relations between people of different countries and nationalities were held in cities and villages. According to the race conditions, anyone could join the runners at any point on the route. Over the years of the World Run relay (held since 1987), millions of people have taken part in it. Such famous people as Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Irina Rodnina, Princess Diana, Anatoly Karpov, Muhammad Ali, Paul McCartney, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama, Queen Elizabeth II of England, Boris Grebenshchikov and many others supported the ideals of the World Run. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov delivered the Torch of Peace to the Mir space Station in 1995 to pass it to American astronauts in space. Traditionally, the relay race starts in April at the UN headquarters in New York, on Hammarskjold Square. In 2014, the opening ceremony of the "World Race" began with the establishment of a Guinness World Record: UN ambassadors, dipl ... Читать далее