RIA Novosti information agency and Russian-Armenian University to hold conference on security in South Caucasus

YEREVAN, September 30, /ARKA/. Russian RIA Novosti information agency and the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University will hold a 4-day conference in Yerevan on October 1-4 on Security in the South Caucasus and Fulfillment of the Region’s Peoples’ Interests.

It will be the fourth annual international conference organized by RIA Novosti with participation of journalists and experts from Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan. Prominent Russian experts, economists, political analysts and heads of mass media have also arrived in Yerevan to take part in the conference.

The organizing committee told ARKA that the conference will continue a set of events for promotion of the idea of information cooperation between RIA Novosti and the Southern Caucasian countries.Participants of the conference will present in Yerevan the most comprehensive and credible information about Russia’s role in the region and its interest in achieving stability across the Caucasus. For this purpose the International Novosti Press Center in Yerevan will organize a tele-bridge between Yerevan and Kiev, Ukraine, on New Geopolitical Landscape in the Greater Caucasus.

This year’s conference is timed with the 10-th anniversary of the Russian-Armenian University. Chief editors of popular Russian mass media outlets will conduct master classes on Russia’s international policy for the university’s students, majoring in journalism and political science. M.M. -0-