The expo Mass Media in Belarus opened in Minsk on 3 May. The forum gathered Belarusian news agencies, publishing houses, and other kinds of mass media. Foreign guests have been invited to participate. Chinese mass media have been invited to participate as a guest of honor. Visitors are free to get familiar with editions published in the Union State of Belarus and Russia as well as editions published in association with Belarusian diasporas in Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, and Russia. The forum has been organized by the Belarusian Information Ministry, the national expo center BelExpo in association with the Minsk City Executive Committee, the Belarusian state television and radio company Belteleradiocompany, the Union of Publishers and Distributors of Printed Products, the House of Press, and the Belarusian Union of Journalists.