RIA NOVOSTI INFORMATION AGENCY AND RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN UNIVERSITY TO HOLD CONFERENCE ON SECURITY IN SOUTH CAUCASUS
ARKA
Sep 30, 2009
YEREVAN, September 30, /ARKA/. Russian RIA Novosti information
agency and the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University will hold a
4-day conference in Yerevan on October 1-4 on Security in the South
Caucasus and Fulfillment of the Region’s Peoples’ Interests.
It will be the fourth annual international conference organized by RIA
Novosti with participation of journalists and experts from Armenia,
Georgia, Azerbaijan. Prominent Russian experts, economists, political
analysts and heads of mass media have also arrived in Yerevan to take
part in the conference.
The organizing committee told ARKA that the conference will continue
a set of events for promotion of the idea of information cooperation
between RIA Novosti and the Southern Caucasian countries.Participants
of the conference will present in Yerevan the most comprehensive
and credible information about Russia’s role in the region and its
interest in achieving stability across the Caucasus. For this purpose
the International Novosti Press Center in Yerevan will organize a
tele-bridge between Yerevan and Kiev, Ukraine, on New Geopolitical
Landscape in the Greater Caucasus.
This year’s conference is timed with the 10-th anniversary of the
Russian-Armenian University. Chief editors of popular Russian mass
media outlets will conduct master classes on Russia’s intern ational
policy for the university’s students, majoring in journalism and
political science.