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  • US Grant to Fund to S. Caucasus States for "Crossroad" TV program

    SOUTH CAUCASIAN STATE TO RECEIVE GRANT FROM INTERNATIONAL
    ORGANIZATIONS FOR INTERREGIONAL TV PROGRAM "CROSSROAD"


    YEREVAN, DECEMBER 3. ARMINFO. The South Caucasian states will be
    provided a 140,000 USD grant as support to a TV program "Crossroad."
    The funds are allocated by EurAsia Foundation jointly with Media
    Diversity Institute (MDI). According to MDI, the grant will be
    provided to Internews-Armenia, Internews-Azerbaijan and
    Internews-Georgia. Weekly program Crossroad covers political, economic
    and social events in the South Caucasus and is the only interregional
    program. The audience of the program, is some 6 mln people. EurAsia
    Foundational and MDI will help the program cover also the problems of
    ethnic and religious minorities, women, children and marginal groups.

    In Armenia crossroad will be broadcasted on the private TV channel
    "Shant," in Georgia on Rustavi-2 TV channel. MDI mobilizes Mass Media
    potential to weaken inter-group conflict, to protect the rights of
    national minorities and human rights on the whole, as well as to
    strengthen public tolerance to all the types of social diversity. MDI
    is based in London and has offices in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia,
    EurAsian Foundation was established in 1993 to contribute to
    development of democratic and market institutions in twenty new
    independent states of the former Soviet Union. The program of small
    grants is the main way to achieve this goal.
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