Minsk to host Forum of European and Asian Media

Eurasian integration will be the FEAM 2012 major theme. The two-day event will include debates among journalists, political figures, parliamentarians and media experts of the prospects of integration projects, cooperation between mass media and the society as well as the structure and performance features of new media in the post-Soviet space.
The FEAM 2012 program will embrace plenary meetings and discussion sessions on the Role of Media in Integration Processes, Instable World. Globalization and Media Space, New Life of Traditional Media, Cultural and Historical Codes and Modern Media Formats, Socialization Challenges for Social Network Users.
Participants of the forum will partake in the Wall against Wall debates on the issue, The Internet: Unlimited Information and the Limits of Freedom, BelTA informs.
A photo exhibition, Post-Soviet Space: the Face of the Epoch, will be held as part of the forum. An award ceremony for the winners of the FEAM 2012 Best Media Project competition will take place as well. The major objective of the competition is to encourage information and analytical media projects on the basis of new and traditional technologies dedicated to the economic and political integration.
The first Forum of CIS and Baltic Mass Media was held on the initiative of RIA Novosti in Moscow in December 2006. In 2009 it acquired its present name - the Forum of European and Asian Media. The two previous forums were held in Kyiv and Astana in 2010 and 2011 respectively. The previous forum made its mark in the history establishing the Club of Heads of the CIS, Baltic and Georgia Media and giving a start to the FEAM 2012 Best Media Project competition.
"In fact, the forums of European and Asian media have become a press event unmatched in the post-Soviet space. Based on tolerance, forums form a new journalist pool on the post-Soviet territory free from the stereotypes of the past, bias and antagonism," the organizers of the forum say.