Expert: Communication technologies "Giraffe is big! He knows best" squashing idea of EEU single information space

 Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) has failed to explain clearly why the information partners of the ongoing 10th International Conference for Eurasian Economic Integration in Moscow are only the Russian mass media and whether such a stance of the Bank does not run contrary to principles and goals of integration processes.  

In response to ArmInfo's request about such media "segregation," EDB said they received application from the Russian media outlets only. Head of the Agency of Rating Marketing Information  (ArmInfo News Agency) Emmanuil Mkrtchyan hails the Bank's regular competitions "for the best news article" that are quite useful for media, though not that creative.

In his words, one can excuse the Bank's to-some-extent infantile media monitoring in the Eurasian space too, though it creates big gaps in the Mass Media database. However, Mkrtchyan says, the discriminative policy of the Bank who chooses its partners from the Russian media space only is a matter of concern.  He is sure that it is necessary to ensure a comprehensive information flow into the EEU countries, and that flow should be based on the vision of integration processes from information centers with equal rights. 

"As usually stemming from the principle 'Giraffe is big! He knows best' (V. Vysotsky "The Giraffe"- editor's note), the EDB - and in the given case, the entire EEU - use 'chaotic' if not 'centrifugal' ill-structured and inefficient technologies, instead of 'centripetal' communication ideas," Emmanuil Mkrtchyan says.   

To recall, Moscow hosted the 10th International Conference for Eurasian Economic Integration on October 29. The goal of the event is to find ways for further integration.

According to EDB's press-office,  the conference is focusing on the discussion of the changes in the integration processes after the Treaty on the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union was approved. The participants discussed vectors of the EEU's economic developments, possible projects of cooperation in the key sectors of economy, the problems that hamper deeper industrial cooperation, capital movements, and establishment of a singe financial market in the region.