OREANDA-NEWS The World Circus Art Festival "Idol-2025" opened on Thursday at the Bolshoi Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

This year, representatives of 15 countries took part in the festival: Russia, the USA, Portugal, Mexico, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Morocco, Australia, Tanzania, China, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Chile and Hungary.

Edgard Zapashny, director of the Great Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky Avenue, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, previously announced that this year the festival had gathered 191 participants from among the artists alone. The team that participates in the preparation of events, including the service staff and organizers, has about 500 people.