YEREVAN. – Astana will host the sixth forum on European and Asian media on November 20-22, the organizer is RIA Novosty media holding. The motto of the sixth forum is ‘20 years of independence: media and community.’

More than 250 representatives of media from CIS states, Baltic and Georgia, including heads of media-industry of post-soviet states, bloggers, experts, analysts are invited for the Forum. The special guest of the Forum is Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov.

Editor-in-chief of RIA Novostry Svetlana Miranyuk presented new things for the participants. These are electronic voting for the theme of next forum, while discussion format wall to wall will refer to the report whether social network users should carry responsibility for the content of their wall-posts. Another innovation is so called Twit walls, which will show statements devoted to the forum and its themes to the Twitter users.

Russian and Kazakh Presidents Dmitri Medvedev and Noursultan Nazarbaïev, as well CIS executive body will send welcoming messages to the Forum opening. The forum aims to unite all unions of journalists of the former Soviet Union.