SOUTH CAUCASIAN STATE TO RECEIVE GRANT FROM INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS FOR INTERREGIONAL TV PROGRAM “CROSSROAD”

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 3. ARMINFO. The South Caucasian states will be
provided a 140,000 USD grant as support to a TV program “Crossroad.”
The funds are allocated by EurAsia Foundation jointly with Media
Diversity Institute (MDI). According to MDI, the grant will be
provided to Internews-Armenia, Internews-Azerbaijan and
Internews-Georgia. Weekly program Crossroad covers political, economic
and social events in the South Caucasus and is the only interregional
program. The audience of the program, is some 6 mln people. EurAsia
Foundational and MDI will help the program cover also the problems of
ethnic and religious minorities, women, children and marginal groups.

In Armenia crossroad will be broadcasted on the private TV channel
“Shant,” in Georgia on Rustavi-2 TV channel. MDI mobilizes Mass Media
potential to weaken inter-group conflict, to protect the rights of
national minorities and human rights on the whole, as well as to
strengthen public tolerance to all the types of social diversity. MDI
is based in London and has offices in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia,
EurAsian Foundation was established in 1993 to contribute to
development of democratic and market institutions in twenty new
independent states of the former Soviet Union. The program of small
grants is the main way to achieve this goal.