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Issue 56:  July 15, 1999

• 1998 U. S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 
• Commentary to the State Department Reports 

Issue 55:  May 1, 1999

• Signs of the Times
• Interfax Reports
• Monitoring Report of the Media Coverage of the Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan
• Baltic Supplement: Mass Media Law and Practice: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

Issue 54:  April 1, 1999

• Signs of the Times
• "On a Higher Council for the Defense of Morality in Television and Radio Broadcasting in the Russian Federation"
• The Efficacy of American Assistance to the Media in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
• A Response from Eric Johnson
• Why Such Sad Cruelty?
• Media Institutes and Foreign Aid

Issue 52-53:  February 15, 1999

• Signs of the Times
• Review of Russian Media 
• Broadcasting Review of 1998 
• 1999—The Media Year in Prospect 
• 1998 World Press Freedom Review on Russia

Issue 51:  December 15, 1998

• Signs of the Times
• Law of Kyrgyz Republic on Mass Media
• Queries and Comments
• Monitoring Report of the Media Coverage of the March 1998 Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine

Issue 50:  November 1, 1998 

• Signs of the Times
• Analysis of the Azerbaijani “Law on Mass Media” 
• Local Media Legislation in Russian Provinces:  An Old and Winding Road 
• On Public and Private Radio and Television in the Republic of Albania 
• Note on the Albanian Private Media Law

Issue 48-49:  September 15, 1998 

• Signs of the Times 
• Decree on Payment for Use of Radio Frequencies 
• Structural Reconstruction of Uzbek Press 
• Supplement:  Mass Media Law & Practice

Issue 47:  June 15, 1998 

• Signs of the Times 
• State Duma Decree No 2294 “On the Activity of Certain Russian Television Companies” 
• Regulations “On Granting Licenses for Television and Radio Broadcasting and the Printing Business” 
• Private Broadcast Media in Azerbaijan—Situation Summary in May 1998 
• Media Transparency in Romania: Current Situation and Possible Problems 
• One Radio, Two Competing Interests: The Problem of Radio Television Hong Kong

Issue 46:  May 15, 1998 

• 1997 U. S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 
• Commentary to the State Department Reports 
• 1997 Glasnost Defense Foundation Report on Journaslists’ Rights in Russia

Issue 45:  April 15, 1998 

• Signs of the Times 
• On Ukranian statutes 
• From “Television and Radio in Kyrgystan: Problems and Prospects for Development”

Issue 44:  March 1, 1998 

• Signs of the Times 
• “Power, Money and Life”: Central Asia’s Biggest Newspaper Continues Its Uneasy Dialogue with Laws and Officials

Issue 42-43:  January 15, 1998 

• Signs of the Times 
• Judicial Chamber Rules on Presumption of Innocence 
• On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum 
• Slicing the Media Cake

Issue 40-41:  November 15, 1997 

• Signs of the Times 
• Behind the Screen: Russian New Media 
• The Problems of Russian Media in a Wider Context

Issue 39:  September 30, 1997 

• Signs of the Times 
• Yugoslavia and Former Yugoslavia:
  - The Struggle for Media Control in Republika Srpska
  - Crisis in Serbian Media: A Western Perspective 
  - Other News and Assessments from Former Yugoslavia 
  - Back Files: Media Issues in Former Yugoslavia 

Issue 38:  July 15, 1997 

• Signs of the Times 
• The Founding of Moscow’s TV-Centre

Issue 37:  June 13, 1997 

• Signs of the Times 
• Big Changes in Store for Russia’s Newspapers 
• Russian Public TV’s Dispute with Mir 
• Changes in Store for TV 
• Television and Politics: The ORT Crisis 
• Special Baltic Supplement: 
  - Editorial 
  - Law on the Provision of Information to the Public 
  - Law on the National Radio and Television 
  - One step Forward Towards Public TV and Radio 
  - Round Table Discussion: Estonian Language Media and Russian Language Media—Two Worlds Apart

Issue 36:  April 20, 1997 

• 1996 U.S. State Department Country Reports on  Human Rights Country Reports 
• Commentary to the State Department’s Reports
  - By Catherine J. Fitzpatrick, Committee to Protect Journalists 
  - By Eric S. Johnson, Internews Moscow

Issue 35:  February 27, 1997 

• Signs of the Times 
• Media and Politics in Transition: Three Models 
• The Politics and Religious Media in Russia 
• The Russian Financial Elite as Media Moguls 
• What Will Become of the Moscow TV Channel? An Interview with Anatoly Lysenko 
• War for Channel Five Looms: Russian Banks Get Set to Battle for Control of National Broadcaster 
• Council Questions Law in CME-TV Nova Deal 
• Special Section: Sagalayev Resigns

Issue 33-34:  November, 1996 

• Constitutional PRotection of Media Freedoms in Russia’s Highest Courts 
• Slander: Methods of Defense 
• The State of the Media in the Transcaucasus 
• Glasnost and Soviet Television (Book Review) 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 32:  September 5, 1996 

• Signs of the Times 
• Special Supplement: Essays on Russian Media Structure: 
  - Freedom and Responsibility in the Russian Media 
  - Content Control on TV in Russia 
  - Corporate Transformation of the Russia Media

Issue 30-31:  May - June 1996 

• Signs of the Times 
• Socialist Newspaper Says Albanian Radio and TV Are Biased 
• Transcaucasus: Attacks on Press 
• Uzbek Broadcasting Reorganization Decree 
• Russian Information Disputes Chamber Decision 
• Committee on Information Policy and Communication of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 
• Special Election Report: 
  - Selected News Reports from the Regions 
  - Commentaries 
  - OMRI Reports on the Presidential Election 
• Special Baltic Supplement 
  - Journalists Adopt Norms of Professional Ethics 
  - Code of Ethics of Lithuanian Journalists 
  - Lithuania Adopts Transparency Regulation in Public Person’s Private Life 
  - Latvian Mass Media Act 
  - Latvian Electronic Mass Media Act 
  - The Development of Self-Regulation of Estonian Media During the Last Three Years 
  - Legal Controversy Concerning the Ban on Tobacco and Alcohol Advertising Continues

Issue 29:  April 30, 1996 

• Broadcasting Bill Dies, at Least Temporarily 
• Election Commission Establishes Rules for Free Television Time 
• New Head of ORT, Flexes Muscle, Speaks His Mind 
• Zyuganov Addresses Media Attitudes in Press Conference 
• Miazek Shakes up Polish Television; Consequences for Broadcast Licenses 
• Hungary: Developments in Wake of New Media Law 
• Zyuganov’s Platform 
• Media as Contested Power in Post-Glasnost Russia 
• MacArthur Foundation Media Grants

Issue 27-28:  March 31, 1996 

• Signs of the Times 
• The BBC’s Guide to Russian Broadcasting 
• Nova’s Success Spurs Attacks by Potential Competitors 
• Hungary’s Media Law: First Steps 
• State Department Country Reports on Human Rights

Issue 26:  February 26, 1996 

• Long-time Yeltsinite, Oleg Poptsov, Ousted as Head of Russian TV; President Replaces him with Eduard Sagalayev 
• Reassurances from Eduard Sagalayev 
• Malashenko, Formidable Competitor, Praises Poptsov 
• News Director Nekhoroshev:  “Poptsov is an Epoch” 
• Workers at Russian Television Lodge Appeal to President Yeltsin 
• Poptsov Reflects on His Fate, His Future and Free Press 
• Chief of Ukrainian TV and Radio Reviews Historic Relationship with Ostankino 
• Mass Media Law and Practice (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia)

Issue 24-25:  January 31, 1996 

• Signs of the Times 
• Slovak Warnings Against RFE Reflect Wider Concern over Liberty of Media 
• Hungary Finally Gets Media Law 
• Central European Media Enterprises: Some Recent News 
• Ave Poltoranin: Sweeping Press Conference on State Support for Media 
• Poptsov Gains Yeltsin Decree on Fourth Channel 
• Russian Elections: 
  - Igor Malashenko Addresses Recent Election Coverage, Success of Communist Party and Relations with RTV 
  - Voronezh Governor Uses “Technicality” to Shut down TV Channels in Run up to December Elections 
  - Presidential Chamber Election Edict: Pague on All Houses 
  - Life in the Regions: A “Diary” of Local Election and Media Occurrences 
  - Nazarbayeva, President’s Daughter, Guides Kazakh TV News Organization 
  - New Moscow Center for Media Law and Policy Studies Established in Moscow

Issue 23:  November 27, 1995 

• Signs of the Times 
• ORT Head Muses on Election Pressures, Fourth Channel 
• Introduction to Moscow Media Law and Policy Institute 
• Recent Decisions of the President’s Judicial Chamber on Information Disputes 
• Text of Russian Federation Advertising Law 
• Guarantees of Citizens’ Right to Protection of Health in the Spread of Advertising

Issue 22:  October 19, 1995 

• Pen-Wielding Yeltsin Decrees Abolition of Ostankino, Proposes Continued Restructuring of National TV Companies, Orders End to Disruption of State Media Transmissions 
• Teapot Tempest?  ORT Drops Solzhenitsyn and Dorenko 
• Defamation and the Fascist Cases and the Russian Civil Code 
• Election Regulations for State Television and Radio Companies 
• Proposed Amendments to the Ukrainian Law “On Television and Radio Broadcasting” 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 21:  September 27, 1995 

• Brew of Economics, Language, Sovereignty: Ukraine Shifts ORT, Unleashing Protests 
• Kulyk Compares Powers of Kiev and Regions 
• ORT Reports its Ukrainian Wounds 
• Sergey Blagovolin, Director-General of ORT, Addressses Future 
• Ivan Laptev, New Head of Press Committee, Fires up Troops in  Inaugural Remarks 
• Electoral Commission Finalizes Media Guidelines for December Elections 
• President’s Judicial Chamber for Information Disputes: Recent Recommendations and Decisions 
• Draft Statute of the Republic of Tajikistan on Television and Radio 
• Comments on the Draft Tajikistan Media Law 
• Electricity, Politics and Television in the Caucusus 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 20:  July 27, 1995 

• Advertising on ORT Resumes; Kukly Puppets Attacked as Pre-Election Jockeying for Control of Media Unfolds 
• More Debate on State Support and Subsidy of the Mass Media 
• Hungary Finally to Pass Media Law?  New Prospects for Commercial Broadcasting Analyzed 
• Four Decisions of The Judicial Chamber for Information Disputes 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 19:  June 27, 1995 

• Yeltsin Vetoes Broadcasting, Anti-ORT Bills; Appoints Ignatenko Communications Minister 
• Yeltsin’s Veto and the Current Broadcast Licensing Board: Interview with Aleksei Simonov 
• The End of Nezavisimaya gazeta 
• New USAID Media Grant Opportunity for Central and Eastern Europe 
• Slobodyan Discusses New Ukrainian Commission 
• Ukrainian Television: Advertising Rates and Advertising Structures 
• Moldovan Press Law 
• A Critique of Moldovan Press Law 
• Directory of State Journalism Schools and Departments in the Former Soviet Union 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 18:  May 23, 1995 

• Signs of the Times 
• National Identity and Media Regulation: An Irish Example 
• Poltoranin Discusses Law on Support of the Mass Media 
• Growing Pains at Russian Public Television 
• The BBC’s Central and Eastern European Strategy in a Post-Soviet World 
• Ukrainian Law on News Agencies 
• Ryabov Discusses Central Election Commission Proposals for New Laws Governing Forthcoming Elections

Issue 17:  April 30, 1995 

• St. Petersburg Television Drama 
• Stormy First Month for Russian Public Television 
• ORT’s Structure Questioned 
• Central European Media Enterprises: A Profile “Supervising” the Belarus Media

Issue 16:  March 17, 1995 

• Listyev’s Murder: Corruption and Advertising 
• Journalists GrieveYeltsin at Ostankino 
• Interview with Alesksei Simonov 
• The View from Rossiskaye Gazeta 
• The Duma Debates Ostankino’s Future; Board Members Announced 
• Yeltsin’s February “State of the Media” Text 
• Belarus’s Lukashenka on the Duties of Journalists 
• The Civil Code and the Mass Media 
• China’s New Advertising Statute

Issue 15:  February 27, 1995 

• “Russian Public Television” Emerges; Temporary Ban on Advertisements Imposed 
• Decisions of the Russian Federation Presidential Judicial Chamber for Information Disputes 
• Moscow Media Development Organizations: A Directory 
• State Department Country Reports on Human Rights 
• Ukraine: New President, New Decree, New Broadcasting Council
• Journalists’ Continuing Almanac of Danger: Tajikistan’s Official Terror

Issue 14:  January 26, 1995  

• Information Management 
• New Law on Official News 
• NTV: Attacked and Attacking 
• Oleg Poptsov, Rumors, Survival 
• Poptsov on Poptsov 
• Hungarian Elections 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 12-13:  December 10, 1994 

• Yeltsin Approves Ostankino “Privatization,” Will Half-State Corporation Gain Independence? 
• Gryzynov Takes Press Committe Helm 
• Russian Mass Media and Defamation Law: Draft Civil Code Presents Little Change 
• The Media in Belarus 
• Recommendation of the Russian Federation Judicial Chamber for Information Disputes on the Legal Nature of ITAR-TASS Materials 
• NTV & the Most Bank Media Empire 
• Malashenko on NTV 
• The Press in Tajikistan 
• A Press Conference with Sergei Gryzunov 
• Death of a Journalist 
• Draft Russian Statute on Radio and Television Broadcasting 
• Draft Russian Statute on State Support for the Mass Media 
• New Estonian Broadcasting Law

Issue 11:  October 15, 1994 

• Internews, RAPIC to Manage $10 Million, USAID Media Partnership Program 
• Television in Tajikistan: A Report 
• Insights from Chairman Vengerov: Russia’s Innovative Information Tribunal 
• Decisions: Russian Federation Presidential Judicial Chamber for Information Disputes 
• Poltoranin’s Dreams and Hopes 
• Members of the Information Policy Committee of the Russian State Duma 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 10:  September 10, 1994 

• Shakeup at Russian Federal Press Committee, Mironov Dismissed for Nationalist Boasts 
• Moscow’s TV6 Joint Venture Dissolves 
• The MMM Case: Implications for the Russian Media 
• Presidential Chamber Advertising Decree: Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Problematic Products 
• Will Russian Defamation Law Acquire a Constitutional Dimension? 
• USAID Media Partnership Grants: Further Details 
• Developments in Licensing and Regulation 
• Case Study in Media Regulation: The 1993 Elections and the Information Arbitration Tribunal

Issue 9:  July 19, 1994 

• USAID Sets Sights on ‘Strengthening Non-Government Media’ 
• Danger and Opportunities for Independent Broadcasters 
• USAID Document: US-Russia Media Partnerships 
• Report of the Working Group on Broadcaster Autonomy and the State 
• A Letter from Minsk 
• Portrait of the Press Minister 
• Russian Language Newsletter

Issue 8:  June 3, 1994 

• Vanity and the New Duma: Establishing a Press Service, Regulating Coverage, Punishing Its Crime 
• Treaty of Public Accord 
• Draft Law “On Rules for the Coverage by State Mass Media of the Activity of Bodies of State Power” 
• The Media Situation in Kyrgyzstan 
• Kyrgyzstan: An Overview 
• Letter from Krasnoyarsk 
• Pundits Testify: Is New US Aid Czar Sought? 
• Cracking Down? 
• Pornography, Pluralism, and the Press

Issue 7:  April 30, 1994 

• Rule of Law and the Mass Media 
• Belarus: New Principles, New Broadcasting Bill 
• Ukrainian Law: “On Television and Radio Broadcasting” 
• The New Ukrainian Statute: A Commentary 
• The Ukrainian Elections: A Monitoring Report 
• Belarus: A Mass Media Primer 
• Regulating Content by Agreement: A Belarus Contract with Independent TV 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 6:  March 31, 1994 

• Independent Television Plan 
• State Department Reports 
• Directory of Journalism Schools 
• History of Journalism Schools 
• Letter from Moscow 
• Notes from Eastern Europe 
• Information Dispute Chamber 
• MacArthur Foundation Grants 
• Poltoranin in the Duma

Issue 5:  February 28, 1994 

• Pass the Advil: Financial Woes of Russia’s State Broadcasters 
• Special Issue on Grantors and Grantees 
• Lithuanian Broadcasting Landscape Reshaped 
• Western Assistance to Journalism Education in the Baltics 
• Free Press: Some Cautionary Notes 
• Signs of the Times

Issue 4:  January 27, 1994 

• In Post-election Era, Yeltsin Tightens Press Ties, Sweetens Subsidy Carrot, and Extends Monitoring Stick 
• Rossiikye Vesti: Losing the Founder 
• Political Ads and the December Election 
• State TV & Radio Directory 
• Supplement: Recent Russian Decrees

Issue 3:  December 22, 1993 

• Yakovlev to head Ostankino 
• Piracy’s End? 
• Ukrainian Broadcasting; A primer 
• Signs of the Times 
• Statutory Supplement: New Russian Copyright Law

Issue 2:  November 17, 1993 

• Short-order Democracy 
• Media Law and the December Election 
• Yeltsin as Press Critic 
• Censorship as an International Obligation? 
• Pravda Returns; Sovetskaia Rossiia Refuses to Compromise 
• Newspapers: Free to Be Bankrupt 
• Free Press: Romantic Dream? 
• Regulations on Information Guarantees in the Election Campaign

Issue 1:  October 20, 1993 

• Why a Newsletter? 
• War of Media Laws: From Referendum to Parliamentary Suspension 
• Of Founders and Emergencies: Euphemising Censorship 
• ITAR-TASS, Novosti, and Interfax 
• Broadcasters Face Financial Problems 
• Media Assistance Miscellany

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