Second European Games in Belarus

MINSK, 10 July (BelTA) – A presentation of the Second European Games will be arranged for participants of the 19^th World Congress of Russian Press, which will take place in Belarus, BelTA learned from Belarusian Information Minister Lilia Ananich on 10 July.

Representatives of mass media from 52 countries, including Belarus, will visit the National Olympic Committee where a presentation of the country’s sport achievements and the European Games 2019 will be arranged for them. “We will use the opportunity to say that an open contest for designing the mascot of the 2^nd European Games has been opened already. Anyone can come up with a mascot of their own,” noted the Belarusian information minister.

Apart from that, participants of the congress will go on a sightseeing tour around Minsk. They will visit the Belarusian State Museum of History of the Great Patriotic War as well as several regions of the country. Participants of the congress will be able to feel the ambience of the art festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk. They will be made familiar with cultural places of interest in Vitebsk and Polotsk. The social and economic potential of Minsk Oblast will be presented. A tour of the Belarusian automobile engineering company BelAZ and the interactive history park-museum Sula will be arranged.

The plenary session of the 19^th World Congress of Russian Press will take place on 12 July. The congress itself is scheduled for 11-15 July.

The 19^th World Congress of Russian Press is organized by the World Association of Russian Press (WARP), the Belarusian Information Ministry, and the World Russian Press Foundation.

The World Association of Russian Press (WARP) was established on 24 June 1999. It is an open international non-governmental association of printed and digital mass media, news agencies, publishing houses, television channels, and radio programs. According to the WARP Council, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television broadcasts in Russian are now available in over 70 countries across the globe. A significant number of them are represented in WARP or cooperate with the association.