Dr. Dariga NAZARBAYEVA

Chair of the Eurasian Media Forum Organizing Committee
Member of Parliament, Doctor of Political Science
Kazakhstan

Distinguished guests, colleagues, and dear friends,

I am grateful to you primarily for coming here. At the end of the day, what can we offer to counter the chaos which keeps creeping into our lives? The only option, I would suggest, is the virtue of tradition. I dare to believe that due to our efforts a certain measure of progress has been achieved in this sense and that the annual April meetings of representatives of the world’s leading mass media at the Almaty Media Forum have become a tradition. This is what can be regarded as a victory.

Welcoming you at the Eurasian Media Forum, I once again firmly claim that it is becoming increasingly important to comprehend developments ongoing in the global media. Intellectual efforts made by philosophers and cultural thinkers alone are definitely insufficient. We can witness the media becoming more significant and transforming into a phenomenon requiring different understanding. Who knows, maybe this is the time when the global media is mysteriously transforming into the prototype of the global mind. However, without going outside the reality zone one may firmly claim that our civilisation is now apt to understand and realise itself primarily with the help of the media. And this makes us, professional journalists, especially liable; this defines our new mission and fate.

Let’s try our best to accomplish this mission.

Welcome to the Eurasian Media Forum.