Signing of the agreement between the Venezuelan government and Sputnik. Photo: Sputnik News Agency.
The Venezuelan government and the Russian news agency Sputnik signed an agreement on Tuesday for the exchange of projects in the field of communication between both nations.
“For us, it is very exciting to be able to have representatives of Sputnik here, to sign an agreement with you and to share experiences in this agreement to consolidate better means of communication and to fight this battle that is more urgent than ever today,” said Minister of Communication and Information Freddy Ñáñez during the signing ceremony of the document, held at the headquarters of the Ministry for Communication and Information in Caracas, Sputnik reports.
He indicated that in the future, it is possible that any Venezuelan public channel could be accessed by Russian audiences.
“Finally today we make this agreement a reality, this agreement that the countries of the global south need so much to build increasingly balanced and increasingly fair means of communication,” said the minister.
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The signing was headed by Ñáñez and the director of Sputnik, Olga Lisogor, who reported that the programs of Sputnik Radio will be broadcast on stations in the country very soon.
The meeting was also attended by the Russian ambassador to Venezuela, Sergei Melik-Bagdasarov, and the head of the Latin American department of the Agency, Daria Yuryeva.
Earlier, Olga Lisogor, director of Sputnik, gave a workshop on The ABC of Artificial Intelligence to press directors, heads of communication of social networks in the mayoralties, governorates and ministerial entities.
This training by Sputnik takes place shortly after the alliance between Venezuela and BRICS TV to overcome the censorship and lies imposed by the empires.
The International Information Agency and Radio Sputnik, founded in 2014, has 24 representative offices around the world, from Asia to Latin America. It broadcasts materials in more than 30 foreign languages, and its presence on social networks exceeds 160 accounts, with around 35 million views per day.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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