Politics:

IT IS NOT DANGEROUS TO SPEAK WITH ARMENIAN ACCENT IN KAZAKHSTAN

Kazakhstan’s claims to the role of the regional superpower suits Armenia fine.

June 18, 2002
The first Eurasian media forum has recently taken place in Almati. Over two hundred representatives of media and journalist unions from over forty countries of the continent participated in the forum. The initiator of the organization of that unprecedented with its scale event was “Khabar” news agency committee of directors head Dariga Nazarbayeva - the eldest daughter of Kazakhstan’s president. She headed the organizational committee for Eurasian media forum holding and the international fund of the same name. But, according to Nazarbayeva, she could hardly manage to establish such an efficient structure and to hold the forum at such high level without participation of two Armenians: ex-Premier of Armenia Armen Sarkisian, the Cambridge University “Eurasia” center head and International confederation of journalist unions secretary general Ashot Jazoian, in the realization of her initiative.
 
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