The EDB and Big Asia TV launch long-term cooperation
St. Petersburg, 25 May 2018. The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Big Asia TV channel launch continuous long-term cooperation. The respective memorandum was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Andrey Krainiy, State Secretary at the EDB, and Alexander Lebedev, General Director of the media holding.
Big Asia is expected to become the Bank’s permanent information partner. The organisations plan to work jointly on the Eurasia 5:0 TV journal. The series will tell about the main initiatives promoted by heads of Asian and European countries to build a new architecture of economic and cultural relationships on the continent.
“The channel’s audience and media products are, to a significant extent, in the same information space our Bank operates in. Strategic cooperation with Big Asia will help the EDB to be more efficient in the advancement of Eurasian integration agenda,” Andrey Krainiy said.
Additional Information
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is an international financial institution founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with the mission to facilitate the development of market economies, sustainable economic growth, and the expansion of mutual trade and other economic ties in its member states. The EDB's charter capital totals US $7 billion. The member states of the Bank are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.
The EDB Media Centre:
Alexander Savelyev +7 985 765 23 59 (Moscow)
Azima Sapargaliyeva +7 777 750 00 08 (Almaty)
Sergey Gorbachev +7 916 727 22 00 (Moscow)