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MINSK, 3 May (BelTA) – Mass media of Belarus and mass media of Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area will cooperate. The relevant agreement was reached as Belarusian Information Minister Alexander Karlyukevich met with Vice Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area Irina Sokolova on the sidelines of the 22^nd international expo Mass Media in Belarus in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

Participants of the meeting said they were ready to promote cooperation between mass media in Belarus and in the Russian region, including digital and printed mass media. The number includes news agencies, publishing houses and distributors of printed media. Cooperation will be promoted by encouraging commercial entities in Belarus and in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area to sign agreements on sharing news data, bulletins, arranging the exchange of delegations of experts and mass media specialists, reporters, publishers, and distributors of printed media. The sides will encourage sharing the best practices in the field of specialist training, participation in international book expos and mass media expos.

Apart from that, the sides expressed their intent to assist with the development and implementation of joint programs on publishing and exchanging socially important literature (books for children, textbooks, science and technology books, reference books), works of fiction written by national classics and modern authors, individual books and series of books, other printed products.

The sides will assist with the exchange and distribution of products by mass media and book products published in Russia and Belarus in the territory of Belarus and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area.

The necessary assistance will be provided to mass media reporters, other representatives of mass media institutions, publishers and distributors of printed media, who are sent by Belarusian organizations to the Russian region and by organizations of the Russian region to Belarus for professional work.

A protocol was signed as a result of the meeting. Speaking about the protocol, Belarusian Information Minister Alexander Karlyukevich said: “Those are draft intentions, draft friendship. I think it will be fleshed out with concrete steps on media partnership in the near future. We are grateful that the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area has arranged a presentation of the spectrum of its media resources during the Mass Media in Belarus expo. We have already started discussing joint book projects. The colleagues will come here to visit the book expo. I think we will tell readers in Belarus as much as possible about the social and economic development of the Russian region and respectively we will more broadly present Belarus in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area via mass media.”

A Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area delegation is taking part in the 22^nd international expo Mass Media in Belarus in Minsk.