The International Media-Forum «Dialogue of Cultures» started there today. Correspondents, cameramen, photographers, graphic designers, podcast hosts and film directors — all of them between 18 and 35 years old. Forum’s participants came from all over the world: Italy, Spain, Serbia, Switzerland, Argentina, Mexico...
There are conferences ahead with the participation of heads of the leading Russian and Eurasian media, master classes, short film festival and also trips to different regions of Russia.
«There are 150 participants in the program, who will travel all over Russia, discover Russia with their own eyes, in their own languages, and convey this to their audiences. This is a very important thing: for people all over Eurasia to understand what real Russia is like. This is the main aim of our forum. 99% of the participants are in Russia for the first time. These are all young people but they have already achieved a certain authority. First they will display their works about their countries at the Hermitage, and then show Russia, they got to know, at their homes» said Ashot Dzhazoyan, chairman of the Mediacongress «The Commonwealth of Journalists».
There are conferences ahead with the participation of heads of the leading Russian and Eurasian media, master classes, short film festival and also trips to different regions of Russia.
«There are 150 participants in the program, who will travel all over Russia, discover Russia with their own eyes, in their own languages, and convey this to their audiences. This is a very important thing: for people all over Eurasia to understand what real Russia is like. This is the main aim of our forum. 99% of the participants are in Russia for the first time. These are all young people but they have already achieved a certain authority. First they will display their works about their countries at the Hermitage, and then show Russia, they got to know, at their homes» said Ashot Dzhazoyan, chairman of the Mediacongress «The Commonwealth of Journalists».