[applause] thank you. So you heard a little bit earlier this afternoon from sona talking about the state of local news. And later from brian talking about the state of national news. And right now im going to talk for a few minutes about the state of Digital Media. The story of Digital Media sort of follows the trajectory of a tail as old tale as old as time. Its a story of hope followed by disillusionment, and in theory the last stage is redemption. Im not sure we are at redemption yet. Let me go back to hope. You may recall or some of you may recall or maybe some of you if you are students are too young that back in the mid to late oughts and early part of the 2010s the world was a pretty exciting place when it came to Digital Media. Google really did bring the worlds information to our fingertips. We connected with old friends there high from high school or other parts of our life on facebook. We had access to so many incredible videos on youtube. When it comes to news, it was revol
Particular, about mortgages and Housing Construction , development of transport and gas supply. Many largescale projects are already being implemented. Now the head of state has instructed to prepare a program for the modernization of the Energy Complex of the far east as well as the development of air transportation today in the Business Program of the forum there is a discussion on the topic of a Global Alternative to domination. Western strategic sessions. Also a final briefing by deputy head of government, president ial plenipotentiary envoy to the far east yuri trutnev. The former head of the Austrian Foreign ministry, carling neissl, is also participating in the work of the Eastern Economic forum and has already given an interview to my colleague Anastasia Efimova. I am glad to welcome you here in vladivostok, this is not the first time here, firstly, what are your impressions. What do you expect from these negotiations here in amber . Yes this is my second time here. Im glad tha
Elect deputies to legislative assemblies, who will subsequently have to be approved by the leaders of both regions and republics. And in total there are almost 4,000 Election Companies in russia. About an hour ago, the results of voting in parliament and the molninsky autonomous okrug were summed up. Today, deputies of the Legislative Assembly reelected governors. For details, our correspondent anatoly bremsky, he is now on the direct line, i welcome anatoly as a voice of the Legislative Assembly. What other elections are you holding . Good afternoon, Dmitry Artyukhov was reelected to a second term as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly by a majority vote expressing confidence in the current head of the district, let me remind you. In yamal, indirect elections of the head of the region are being held, each Political Party submits its candidates. E, the governor of the tyumen region, he sifts out and submits five candidates for the president s signature. The final is three people, thre
The head of state emphasized tuesday in the kremlin. A very rich program. Putin will speak at the Plenary Session with his participation and will break a number other events. The president will get acquainted with the results of work on the development of the far east via video link and will launch new production to discuss the situation of support for cities in the region, according to estimates at the forum. Over 7,000 participants will come from more than 50 countries. As expected, there will be delegations from india, china , laos, mongolia and myanmar, representatives of countries in the asiapacific region, and look at vladivostok, for example, the development of cooperation with our country and other important topics. What exactly are business programs . Sessions were studied by vera moroz , Infrastructure Development and attracting investments to the far east, one of the key topics of the Economic Forum in vladivostok, the volume of investments in the region has already amounted
I am the Vice President of Public Programs here at the New York Public Library purposes of privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating mike wallace new book. The longawaited sequel to his previous book goff of. Picks of the story at the turn of the last century with his son paralleled growth and expansion and consolidation when infrastructure was developed and many institutions were founded including the New York Public Library. Incidentally the we are were all seated it is part of the reservoir there is a great before and after illustration in the book and it is a special honor to host but only because of the importance of the book and subject matter but because mike wallace to is a fellow and a scholar in Residence Research to a good deal of the book right here in the archives the Archival Holdings are vast and include collections from the New York Times and the waldorf astoria even your city miscellaneous. [laughter] but it is the of painstaking work of scholars t