The international summer school of RIA Novosti, supported by the
Intergovernmental Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of member-states
of the CIS, has finished in Minsk. It was a unique platform for
communication between future specialists in the information policy of the CIS.
During the week students from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Moldova,
Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian Federation were in the same
cyberspace, communicating with each other and authoritative
newsmakers, including Maxim Shevchenko, Alexandr Gurnov, Leonid
Mlechin, Nikolai Zlobin and Vitaly Dymarsky.
One of the teachers of the school was the editor-in-chief of the
portal Vestnik Kavkaza, Alexei Vlasov.
The editorial staff asked Alexei Vlasov to share his opinion of the event.
Alexei Vlasov: I am grateful to the agency RIA Novosti for the
opportunity to take part in such an imposing forum. To make speeches in
front of the future specialists of the CIS is a big responsibility,
but also a unique opportunity to evaluate the level of development of
common communication lines uniting post-Soviet countries. I was
really glad that the "target group" - young journalists and political
scientists of the South Caucasus - were very interested in the work of our
website. They are very qualified for their age, devoted to their
profession and focused on building careers, both girls and boys. The
conversation was not a lecture, more a dialogue, so I’d say I also managed to gain some knowledge from this communication.
I think our portal should also organize such meetings at a local
level. The closer that journalists from Central Asia and South Caucasus
communicate, the wider the space of mutual confidence there is, and the fewer mutual reproaches there are. This is a very important component of bringing positions closer, not only of journalists, but of the peoples of the post-Soviet countries as a whole.
