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DateName of newspaper, radio station or TV channel
Title
19.05.2008 “Vedu” ("Knowledge) - a newspaper of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and State Committee for Sciences and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus "Belarus – in Grid-society"
2.06.2008 “Vedu” ("Knowledge) - a newspaper of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and State Committee for Sciences and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus "BASNET is accepted for TERENA"
3.07.2008 "Gedimino Universitetas" - a Lithuanian newspaper "VGTU – BalticGrid II projekto partneris"
24.07.2008 “Union assembly”  - the newspaper of the Parliamentary assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia "SKIF spreads its nets"
25.08.2008 “Vedu” ("Knowledge) - a newspaper of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and State Committee for Sciences and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus "A 'grid' for supercomputer" - an interview with Anatoly Krishtofik
September 2008 “Grid Talk, Grid Briefings” web portal and brochure distributed during the EGEE’08 conference, Istanbul, Turkey “Science is becoming more and more international…”, a part of the “European Grid Initiative: towards a sustainable long-term European grid infrastructure” – a September 2008 issue of the “Grid Talk, Grid Briefings” brochure
22.09.2008 EGEE booklet, distributed online and during the EGEE’08 conference, Istanbul, Turkey Achieving Global Science: Grid-powered solutions from EGEE and Collaborating Projects” – the joint publication of EGEE and Collaborating Projects
23.09.2008 "GridCast" - a web site presenting videos from various Grid events "Virtual tour: BalticGrid-II" - a short interview  with Ake Edlund (the Project Director of BG-II) made during the EGEE'08 conference in Istanbul.
October 2008 Magazine “Sakaru pasaule” (Connection world) "Academic networks and digital divide" - an article about the developments of the GÉANT2 network and Grid in Latvia and Europe
30.10.2008 Journal “Naujoji komunikacija” (New communication) “Pasaulis – tai superkompiuteris”  (World – supercomputer) - an article about the developments of the GÉANT2 network and Grid in Latvia and Europe.
5.11.2008 “BELTA” - National Mass Media Information Agency - electronic newspaper "Supercomputer technologies will be available to users of the regional centres of Belarus"
10.11.2008 “Vedu” ("Knowledge) - a newspaper of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and State Committee for Sciences and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus "A step into the future of IT" - an article about The Belarus Grid Week which was held in Minsk in premises of United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (UIIP NASB) from October 27 to November 01, 2008
12.11.2008 BELIEF-II and BG-II web sites "BELIEF at ICT2008 International Village Global e-Infrastructure" - a press release prepared by the BELIEF-II project members to promote the joint stand of the BG-II and several other EU e-Infrastructure projects at the International Village at ICT 2008 in Lyon.
17.11.2008 “Vedu” ("Knowledge) - a newspaper of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and State Committee for Sciences and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus "Supercomputer technologies for the masses"
December 2008 Popular Estonian science magazine "Tarkade Klubi" "Internet is gridifying" - the publication describes recent developments in the distributed technologies. It gives some examples of modern distributed applications: grid, cloud computing and data management etc. The role of CERN LHC Grid as a huge test platform is described. The regional BG-II project is introduced.
December 2008 EENet's newsletter No 7 First two quarters of BalticGrid-II project
6.12.2008 LTR – Lithuanian national radio and television channel TV program titled “Negali būti!” (“It can’t be true!”) - including an interview with Algimantas Juozapavicius on:
  •  supercomputers which are used to calculate various problems which consist of many difficult calculations and
  • on GRID - a network connection system used between computers, which became more and more popular among the scientists.
January 2009 Sukcesy Małopolski w 7. Programie Ramowym (“The achievements of Malopolska voivodeship in 7th FP”) – a publication elaborated by the Technology Transfer Centre of the Krakow University The article titled "BalticGrid-II" containing an interview with Henryk Palka from IFJPAN. The interview covered the following issues: the origin of the BalticGrid-II project, the idea of Grid, the difficulties in management of partner participation in the project, how the science and society benefits from  BalticGrid-II, experience gained during the participation in the project.
10.01.2009 ONT - Belarusian TV channel TV-Magazine “Union” in Belarusian television, including an interview with Oleg Tchij, Anatoliy Krishtofik, Pavel Borodin on the Belarusian grid and supercomputer initiatives which were presented as designed to increase the impact, adoption and reach, and to further improve the support of services and users of the recently created e-Infrastructure in Belarus, Russia and Baltic States.
27.02.2009 Belarusian Radio "An interview on grid computing” (a radio interview with Anatoliy Krishtofik)
28.02.2009 ONT - Belarusian TV channel “An interview on grid technologies in Belarus for national weekly news broadcast” (a TV interview with Anatoliy Krishtofik)
4.03.2009 "GridCast" - a web site presenting videos from various Grid events "Comparing protein structure using a computer grid" - a short interview  (on CoPS application) with Edgars Znots made during the EGEE UF conference in Catania, Italy.
5.03.2009 "GridCast" - a web site presenting videos from various Grid events "See inside the stars" - a short interview  with Sarunas Mikolaitis (on SYNSTPEC application) made during the EGEE UF conference in Catania, Italy.
12.03.2009 March 2009 edition of the EGEE director’s letter. Distributed to the EGEE all members' mailing list A section with information on signing of MoU between BG-II and EGEE projects has been placed in the letter.
20.03.2009 LTV7 – Latvian TV channel “An interview about RTU participation in Baltic Grid-II” (a TV interview with Ilmars Slaidins and Lauris Cikovskis)
3.03.2009 “SPECTRUM” , Vol. 10 - Journal of Vilnius University How can the computer be a cloud? (orig. “Kaip gali kompiuteris būti debesyse”?) - an interview with Algimantas Juozapavičius
27.03.2009 ONT - Belarusian TV channel “TV reportage on supercomputer and grid technologies in Belarus” (a TV program with participation of Viktor Evtuhov, Sergey Abramov, Uladzimir Anishchanka, Anatoly Krishtofik)
27.03.2009 Press conference with participation of the following media representatives: newspaper “Vedy”, newspaper “7 Days”, "BelTA” Agency, TV-magazine “Soyuz”, Radio station “Belarus”, newspaper “Republic”, ONT TV channel, National TV channel and Metropolitan TV channel. The press conference was organized to cover the state and the prospects of grid and supercomputer technologies in Belarus and abroad. New Belarusian supercomputer initiatives were presented and discussed. The optimistic prospects of super- and grid computing technologies in Belarus were explained to a large audience of the major Belarusian TV and radio channels.
6.04.2009 “Vedu” ("Knowledge) - a newspaper of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and State Committee for Sciences and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus "Integration makes leaders"
7.04.2009 Newspaper "Republic" To create something unbuyable
9.06.2009 Minsk courier "From the SKIF family"
18.06.2009 Public newspaper "The development of national computer is profitable"
21-24.09.2009 EGEE booklet, distributed online and during the EGEE’09 conference, Barcelona, Spain "Success and Sustainability: EGEE Collaborating Projects' Achievements in 2009 and Future Plans” - EGEE Collaborating Projects publication
2.12.2009 Belarusian Radio Collaboration of physicists and lyricists: Linguistics and modern computing (a radio interview with Ihar A. Miklashevich and Uladzimir Koshchanka)
11.01.2010 “Vedu” ("Knowledge) - a newspaper of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and State Committee for Sciences and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus Corpus of the Belarusian Language (International project BalticGrid-II)
26.01.2010 EC Information Society and Media report - distributed during the “Future of Cloud Computing event”, held in Brussels, on 26 January 2010 THE FUTURE OF CLOUD COMPUTING. OPPORTUNITIES FOR EUROPEAN CLOUD COMPUTING BEYOND 2010
February 2010 Zero-In Fourth Issue eMagazine Innovative companies and cloud computing
9.02.2010 Nastaunickaja Gazeta (The teachers newspaper) At the grid history beginning
13.02.2010 Nastaunickaja Gazeta (The teachers newspaper) All language in electronic format
23.03.2010 Republic - a Belarusian newspaper SKIF Will Predict the Weather