Post-Soviet space media show interest in EU integration

MINSK. December 11. KAZINFORM  EU integration processes catch the interest of the mass media from the post-Soviet space, Director of the International Society of the Baltic Forum (Latvia) Alexander Vasilyev said at the Forum of European and Asian Media 2012 in Minsk on 10 December.
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The expert expressed confidence that the information on the challenges the EU countries face on their way to integration would be of great interest to the forum participants representing the post-Soviet space.

Alexander Vasilyev stated: "Very often journalists simplify integration processes, search for sensations taking a casual look on the issue. It is important to understand the nature of the integration processes in the European Union and the countries lying to the east of the EU."

Alexander Vasilyev expressed hope that the Forum of European and Asian Media would continue increasing in number and will welcome media outlets from Central and Western Europe in the future, Kazinform refers to BelTA.

The seventh annual Forum of European and Asian Media (FEAM) titled Integration Processes in the Post-Soviet Space and New Media opened in Minsk on 10 December. Partaking in the event are more than 200 heads of the leading media outlets from the CIS, Baltic states and Georgia. 

Eurasian integration is 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. 

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.

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