More than 200 participants expected at forum of European and Asian media 2012 in Minsk
07.12.2012,
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The Forum of European and Asian Media (FEAM) 2012 on integration and new media in the post-soviet area will bring together over 200 heads of leading mass media outlets from CIS, Georgia and Baltic countries in Belarusian capital Minsk on December 9-12.
YEREVAN, December 7. /ARKA/. The Forum of European and Asian Media (FEAM) 2012 on integration and new media in the post-soviet area will bring together over 200 heads of leading mass media outlets from CIS, Georgia and Baltic countries in Belarusian capital Minsk on December 9-12.
The forum is held by RIA Novosti, supported by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media.
According to Editor-in-Chief of RIA Novosti Svetlana Mironiuk, European-Asian media space is better integrated than national institutions, economic and social initiatives.
Media forum of CIS, Georgia and Baltic countries is a unique platform for equal discussion of matters in media industry, both with involvement of politicians and experts and without them, Mironiuk said.
FEAM-2012 is another opportunity to discuss common problems and projects and become closer to each other, she said.
Eurasian integration will be the main topic of the upcoming forum. Journalists, politicians, members of parliaments and media experts will debate on future of integration projects, media-society interaction and features of the new media in the post-soviet area.
The forum usually hosts well-known politicians, public figures and culture experts. The leader of the host country used to participate in the forum as well.
Special guest of the forum, director of the Russian Institute of Economic Ruslan Grinberg expressed hope that the forum’s participants will discuss how to strengthen centripetal trends and how to counteract the centrifugal ones.
“Russia and the post-soviet countries are really doomed for serious cooperation because alone they will look very unhealthy and there is a great probability of falling into a technological backwater,” Grinberg said.
The discussion topics on the agenda are the role of mass media in integration, globalization and media space in unsustainable world, new life of traditional media, cultural and historic codes and modern media formats, socialization problems of social networking website users.
An acute debate on “Wall against wall” will be held on “The internet: unlimited information and the limits of freedom”. The debate participants will split up into two camps – supporters and opponents of immersion into the Internet – and will defend their views. Media expert Anton Khrekov is to be the referee of the dispute.
Director of Russia-based International Institute for Political Expertise Yevgeniy Minchenko stressed the importance of giving mass media and experts of different countries an opportunity to communicate with each other both in formal and informal atmosphere.
“I may not have a momentary effect, but it is a platform that creates common expert and information space,” Minchenko said.
The forum participants and accredited reporters will have a chance to attend a photo exhibition, “Post-soviet area: faces of the era”.
Apart from that, winners of the “Best media project of FEAM-2012” will be awarded in Minsk.
For more details about FEAM-2012, please visit http://ria.ru/feam_2012/.
The forum’s information partners are “Mir” (“Peace” inter-state radio and TV company, “Golos Rosiyi” radio company, BelRA public information agency of Belarus and “AIF in Belarus” weekly. -0-
