THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TV PROGRAMS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ‘AIR CASKET’ TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN ON JUNE 19-23
ArmInfo
2007-06-18 18:53:00
The second international festival of TV programs in the Russian
language "Air Casket" will be held in Yerevan on June 19-23. The
organizer of the festival is the International Academy of Television
and Radio (IATR).
Yegor Glumov (Gor Grigoryan), a popular presenter of the Van radio
company (Radio Van), told ArmInfo correspondent that works of 50
participants from 10 countries (Armenia, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Latvia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Estonia) are
presented at the festival.
The participants will present their programs in 4 categories: "News
program", "Cultural program", "We speak Russian" (the best knowledge
of the Russian language on air), and "Program reflecting the public’s
relations with Russia". The festival aims to expand creative relations
between journalists and give knowledge of the best Russian language
programs of the CIS and non-CIS countries. There will be no winners at
the festival. All the participants will be awarded prizes by IATR. The
first "Air Casket" festival was held in the "House of Moscow" in Riga
on June 1-4, 2006. It was organized by IATR.
In 2006, Armenia was represented by the programs of Radio Van (their
author being Yegor Glumov), and Russian version of the news program
"Horizon" on Shant TV channel (its producer, editor and presenter
being Artyom Yerkanyan).
To note, IATR is a non-governmental organization, whose members are
over 200 professionals of TV and radio from 17 countries of three
continents. The headquarters of the organization is in Moscow. Anatoly
Lysenko is the President of the Academy and Chairman of its Presidium,
and Leonid Zolotarevsky is the Secretary of Presidium.