MOSCOW, 24 May (BelTA) - State Secretary of the Belarus-Russia Union State Dmitry Mezentsev promised to report at the end of the year on the implementation of the instruction to set up a media holding company of the Union State. The state secretary made the statement at the international forum “New Meanings of New Reality” in Moscow on 24 May, BelTA has learned.
Dmitry Mezentsev recalled that at the initiative of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, an instruction was given at the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State in November 2021 to set up a media holding company of the Union State. He clarified that the instruction provided for the creation of an internet portal, fundamental modernization of the television and radio company of the Union State and the improvement of the existing printed media system.
“We are well aware of the fact that the effectiveness of the work of the media complex of the Union State is still insufficient. At the end of the year, we will report to the heads of state, to the Supreme State Council, to readers and television viewers, and to Internet users on what we have managed to do so far,” the state secretary said.
