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2007

Program

Thursday, April 19

Friday, April 20

Saturday, April 21

Welcome speeches

The Eurasian Media Forum is the most prominent international media initiative in Eurasia aimed at defining the strategic role of Eurasia in world affairs, exploring a new approach to international relations, promoting equality of access to reliable public information throughout the area and encouraging the highest standards of journalism.

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Day 3

Saturday, April 21

10.00-11.30	Session #7 (Ballroom) MEDIA LAW AND FREEDOM IN THE POST-SOVIET REPUBLICS The development of dynamic media within a new, competitive, commercial society is fraught with economic and political pressures and creates many challenges for practitioners and law makers. In this session we will examine how new countries balance the sometimes conflicting interests of media, state, business and society. Specifically, we will examine the status of media law and media freedoms in post-Soviet countries. How accurate is the widely held view in the international community that media in the entire region is restricted? What is the situation and how can the post-Soviet media space be defined today? How is the media regulated across the region? How have media and political traditions impacted on the development of media law and how does this differ from country to country? Chair: Alexander Arkhangelskiy, Author and TV host, «Tem vremenem (In the Meantime)» programme, «Culture» TV channel, Russia Speakers: Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Austria Sergey Kara-Murza, Political scientist, author of the book «Manipulation of consciousness», Russia Oleg Poptsov, President of Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio, Russia Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, Minister of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan Serge Schmemann, Editorial Page Editor, International Herald Tribune, France Front row: Bulat Abilov, former Member of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, author and former TV host of «Sobstvennoe mnenie (Personal Opinion)» talk show, Kazakhstan Ashot Dzhazoyan, Secretary General, International Confederation of Journalists? Unions, Russia Lindsey Hilsum, China Correspondent and International Editor, ITN/Channel 4 News
11.30-12.00	Coffee break (sponsored by Russia Today)
12.00-13.30	Session #8 (Ballroom) THE «GREAT GAME» IN THE 21ST CENTURY — WHAT HAS THE INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN ACHIEVED? Five years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, has it secured its objective of bringing peace, stability and prosperity to one of Central Asia?s key nations? What is the ISAF (International Security Assistance Forces) role of NATO in Afghanistan? Even if there is still violent unrest, is there the prospect of long-term benefits? What have the Karzai Administration and its foreign backers achieved for Afghans themselves? Has life for the average Afghan improved since the toppling of the Taliban? Are the wishes of its people being respected, or is Afghanistan destined to be the object of continual meddling by outside powers? The session will take the form of a tribunal, in which the US, NATO and the Karzai Administration stand accused of failing to achieve the long-term aims of the 2001 invasion. Expert witnesses will be questioned by a chair and by each other, and the audience will act as the jury. Producer: CNN International Chair: Charles Hodson, Anchor, CNN International Speakers: Richard Perle, Resident Fellow at American Enterprise Institute; former Chairman of the Defense Policy Board (2001-2003); former Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-1987), USA Dr. Abdullah, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan (1998-2004), Afghanistan Prof. Azmat Hayat Khan, Director of the Area Study Center for Russia, China and Central Asia, Pakistan Saad Mohseni, Chairman, Moby Media Group, Afghanistan Norine MacDonald, President and founder, Senlis Council-Security and Development Policy Group, France Geydar Dzhemal, Chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia Front row: Dr. Ariel Cohen, Senior research fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Heritage Foundation, USA Akram Khouzam, Independent journalist, Lebanon
13.30-15.00	Lunch (Astana restaurant)
15.00-16.30	Session #9 (Ballroom) «GLAMORIZATION» OF THE MEDIA The increasing popularity and ubiquity of various entertainment programmes is a challenge for many in media and society. Traditionalists argue that the degeneration of TV in this way — «glamorised» television without political analysis — is a sad reflection and even an encouragement to a wider cultural dumbing down in society. In this session we will examine the «glamorous» media landscape in Eurasia and beyond. Why is this genre of programming so successful? What do these developments say about the changing role of media, culture, entertainment and society? As the audience increasingly becomes and provides the content, where does this leave traditional programming? Where does journalism fit within this shifting landscape? Chair: Vladimir Rerikh, Journalist, Producer, Kazakhstan Speakers: Oleg Kashin, Columnist of «Expert» magazine, Russia Vasiliy Arkanov, TV journalist, USA Chantel Shafie, Actress and TV presenter, UK Kseniya Sobchak, TV host, Russia Marina Lesko, Journalist and media ideologist, Russia Rachid Nougmanov, Film Director, President of Popular Films company, Kazakhstan Front row: Alexander Kogan, Chief editor, daily «Mnenia» (Opinions) web magazine, Israel
16.30-17.00	Closing address by Dr. Dariga Nazarbayeva, Chair of the Eurasian Media Forum Organizing Committee, Kazakhstan
19.00-24.00	Forum Gala Event hosted by the International Herald Tribune and Khabar Agency