OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow’s World Trade Center hosted a national forum of business media, entitled “The Role of Mass Media in Protecting National Business Interests in a WTO-regulated environment.” The conference was sponsored by the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Russian Union of Journalists, and co-sponsored by the International Business Center “Russia in the WTO” based in the WTC Moscow.

The forum was attended by dignitaries and officials, including Sergei Katyrin, Chairman of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Georgy Petrov, Vice President of the same chamber, Alexander Torshin, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council, top chamber of the Russian parliament, Tatyana Golendeyeva, State Secretary and Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Customs Service, Vladimir Salamatov, General Director of the World Trade Center Moscow, and Vsevolod Bogdanov, Chairman of the Russian Union of Journalists.

The participants in the meeting discussed matters related to supplying media with information about business activities in a WTO-regulated business environment, and development opportunities available to the Russian business community after the country’s accession to the WTO. Furthermore, the forum attendees touched upon the role of mass media in promotion of small and medium-sized businesses in new economic conditions, and proposed measures of information support that could be provided to businessmen and entrepreneurs.

Within the framework of the forum, winners of the national journalistic competition, “Russia’s Economic Revival,” held in 2012, were awarded in a ceremonial session.

The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Russian Union of Journalists expressed their appreciation of the large contribution made by Moscow’s World Trade Center in development of business-related journalism in Russia.