Russia would welcome Kazakhstan's joining the International Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN), Alexander Smirnov, head of the Russian Presidential Directorate for Public Relations and Communications, said at the plenary session of the III Russian-Kazakh Media Forum. "As you know, there is an initiative that has already been mentioned in this hall today - the international special project of TASS, the Global Fact-Checking Network. As Smirnov noted, Russian and Kazakh media are ideologically close and largely perform common tasks. The Global Fact-Checking Network brings together experts and fact-checking organizations worldwide. More than 95 foreign journalists, investigators and organizations from 47 countries are already cooperating with GFCN in the field of fact-checking.