Under Russia’s BRICS presidency, Moscow hosted the 7th BRICS Media Summit on September 13-15, which gathered the heads of leading media outlets from the association’s member states and the countries that have applied to join BRICS . It was primarily held to increase the role of the media in the process of shaping the future of a multipolar world.

It was founded at the initiative of Xinhua 10 years ago. Noting that BRICS is a real force with political, economic and humanitarian dimensions, it has become necessary to coordinate their actions in order to build a new and fair world order. In a video message to the guests of during the gala night on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of TASS, who include the participants of the BRICS Media Summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hope that the BRICS Media Summit contributes “to establish new business and friendly contacts within the association and to strengthen relations between member countries.”

The distinctive message Putin underlined was the importance of freedom of speech, the freedom to disseminate objective information in the era of developing multipolarity. Putin really stressed with a special tone the phrase: “real freedom of speech, which reflects different opinions, enables the search for compromises and common approaches to solving the world’s problems.” And that media play a significant role in building a just world order by giving people “an objective and unadulterated picture of the world,” Putin said to admiration of the guests at the World Trade Centre.

“In the year of Russia’s BRICS chairmanship, our Chinese friends supported our suggestion with enthusiasm and I sincerely thank our colleagues from Xinhua and, above all, the agency’s head, for supporting us in organizing this. This just illustrates the strategic partnership of Russia and China already at the level of media outlets,” TASS Director General Andrey Kondrashov said during the summit’s opening session.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in a video message, asserted the necessity........

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