10 June 2010
To write negative about Belarus becomes bad style in Ukraine’s press
VITEBSK, 10 June (BelTA) - To write negative about Belarus has become a bad style in the Ukrainian press, Ukrainian publicist Igor Slisarenko told BelTA. Today he and other participants of the project “Modern Belarus: an Outsider’s View” within the 5th Belarus international media forum will continue getting familiar with the social and economic development of the Vitebsk Oblast. Igor Slisarenko has been to Belarus several times. In 2007 he made a cycle of TV programmes and newspaper publications dedicated to modern Belarus. In his words, it drew a wide response. Ordinary readers and audience believed the relations between the authorities and people in Belarus should become an example for the Ukrainian leadership. The liberal press criticized his materials. The objective information on Belarus comes to Ukraine not only through the mass media however. People have preserved friendly relations with Belarus. “To write negative about Belarus has become a bad style in the Ukrainian press today. Readers do not take this information, do not believe it,” Igor Slisarenko said. The participants of the forum began their tour of the Vitebsk Oblast from the Marc Chagall Museum and Victory Square, the biggest one in Belarus. They have already visited the Luzhesno gymnasium and the agro-town Novka. Foreign journalists are expected to learn about the innovations of the Vitebsk State Technological University and visit Vitebsk maternity hospital No 1. Journalists from Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Azerbaijan have arrived to see the Vitebsk Oblast.БЕЛТА
