20.06.2013
Minsk to host 15th World Congress of the Russian Press plenary session
MINSK, 20 June (BelTA) – A plenary meeting of the 15th World Congress of the Russian Press will take place in the National Library of Belarus in Minsk on 20 June, BelTA has learnt.
The participants of the plenary session will highlight the challenges and prospects of the Russian language abroad as well as the Russian press, the place and role of the foreign Russian press in the modern intercultural dialogue. The experts will also discuss the ways the new media influencing the status of the traditional Russian mass media outlets abroad.
On 21 June the participants of the forum will visit Nesvizh and the Brest Fortress. On 22 June the experts will take part in the events commemorating the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The attendees of the congress are also expected to visit the Viskuli residence and the national park Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
Partaking in the forum will be over 200 representatives of the Russian diasporas from almost 60 countries – editors-in-chief, publishers and leading journalists.
The World Congress of the Russian Press is an annual meeting of the heads of the Russian-speaking mass media outlets to discuss the current development of the world Russian-speaking information space, preservation of the Russian language, the fourth most spoken language in the world.
Among the guests of honor at the forum were President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroder, Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, UNESCO Directors-General Koichiro Matsuura and other state and political figures.
The organizers of the 15th World Congress of the Russian Press are the World Association of the Russian Press, BelTA News Agency in cooperation with the ITAR-TASS News Agency, Information Ministry, Foreign Ministry and other government agencies of Belarus.
At present the World Association of the Russian Press is the only global association of Russian-language journalists. This is an open international non-governmental organization of printed and electronic mass media, news agencies, publishing houses, TV and radio companies and other legal producers and distributors of all kinds of mass information in the Russian language. The association was established at the first World Congress of the Russian Press in Moscow in June 1999.
According to the World Association of the Russian Press, Russian-language newspapers, magazines, journals, publishing houses, radio and TV companies operate in over 80 countries worldwide, including all the CIS member states. Most of these mass media outlets are members of the association or collaborate with it.
The participants of the plenary session will highlight the challenges and prospects of the Russian language abroad as well as the Russian press, the place and role of the foreign Russian press in the modern intercultural dialogue. The experts will also discuss the ways the new media influencing the status of the traditional Russian mass media outlets abroad.
On 21 June the participants of the forum will visit Nesvizh and the Brest Fortress. On 22 June the experts will take part in the events commemorating the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The attendees of the congress are also expected to visit the Viskuli residence and the national park Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
Partaking in the forum will be over 200 representatives of the Russian diasporas from almost 60 countries – editors-in-chief, publishers and leading journalists.
The World Congress of the Russian Press is an annual meeting of the heads of the Russian-speaking mass media outlets to discuss the current development of the world Russian-speaking information space, preservation of the Russian language, the fourth most spoken language in the world.
Among the guests of honor at the forum were President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroder, Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, UNESCO Directors-General Koichiro Matsuura and other state and political figures.
The organizers of the 15th World Congress of the Russian Press are the World Association of the Russian Press, BelTA News Agency in cooperation with the ITAR-TASS News Agency, Information Ministry, Foreign Ministry and other government agencies of Belarus.
At present the World Association of the Russian Press is the only global association of Russian-language journalists. This is an open international non-governmental organization of printed and electronic mass media, news agencies, publishing houses, TV and radio companies and other legal producers and distributors of all kinds of mass information in the Russian language. The association was established at the first World Congress of the Russian Press in Moscow in June 1999.
According to the World Association of the Russian Press, Russian-language newspapers, magazines, journals, publishing houses, radio and TV companies operate in over 80 countries worldwide, including all the CIS member states. Most of these mass media outlets are members of the association or collaborate with it.