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Russians would like to live - far ahead of Germany (second place), followed by France, the UK
and Spain.
Together with our friends, my wife and I have created a group for Russian-speaking moms on
Facebook. In other words, we work primarily with families. Typically, these are Italian-Russian
(bilingual) families, so our mission is to promote and preserve the Russian language in such fam-
ilies, as well as to promote Russians customs and traditions among our children. In addition, cul-
tural exchanges and mutual assistance are important aspects of our activity.
Juris Gulbis
,
CIEL&CO (Latvia)
: The popularity of
previously well-respected journalists, who took years
to build up their authority and reputation, is rapidly
falling, while the social media are greatly reinforcing
the individual voices of unprofessional reporters and
upstarts with just any educational background or none
at all. In a conversation about the online media,
Alexander Genis told me: "It's a fence in the global
village on which everyone can write whatever he
pleases - illiterate and amoral."
The "news vs. opinion" balance is not in the hands of Lady Justice. The snowball of doubts
generates new, double standards of news, which sometime could not be further from the truth,
and the reporters' Sisyphean labor is scuttled by hybrid media that always have a camera set up
by the wayside in advance of an upcoming event.
Armen Oganesyan
: I believe that the quality press,
radio and TV can be irresponsible with regard to their
readers, listeners and viewers. The fact is that even
during the Cold War era, it was considered to be un-
professional and unacceptable to invent facts that did
not actually exist. There was a hard and fast rule that
information cannot be aired unless it is confirmed by
two independent sources. Today, this is indeed a huge
problem for the media and the audience: Facts are in-
vented. In other words, virtual reality is created that is out of sync with objective reality. You
just watched footage of an airstrike on terrorist headquarters in Syria. Well, many Western news-
papers use the clichés, "according to some reports," "according to some sources," or they report
facts without attribution.
The world media community should come to terms regarding this standard of modern journal-
ism that does not in any way limit freedom of expression, freedom to interpret events and express
one's ideas and convictions.
So, what is information? First of all, information should reflect the truth in all possible forms.
So, when we are faced with a problem, an especially complicated problem, of course, it is better
to present different opinions, opposing them to one another, because one opinion may not have