Post-Soviet Media Law & Policy Newsletter

Issue 11     Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law     October 15, 1994 

Members of the Information Policy Commitee of the Russian State Duma

Address: Okhotny ryad, 1, Moscow, Russia

POLTORANIN Mikhail Nikiforovich
Chair of the Commitee
Tel.: 292-7765, 292-8741
Faction: Choice of Russia, deputy chair of the faction until March 1994.  Born in 1939, higher education. Since March, 1994 he has been a member of the initiative group of the party Democratic Choice of Russia.  He was the chair of Federal Information Center of Russia (until January, 1994).

SELEZNIOV Gennadiy Nikolaevich
Deputy Chairman of the Commitee
Tel.: 292-6785, 292-7884
Faction: Communist Party of Russia
Born in 1947, higher education, associate professor, member of the Communist Party of Russia. He is a founding member of “Accord in the Name of Russia.” Vice-President of the joint-stock Company “Pravda International,” member of the editorial board of the newspaper “Pravda,” Moscow.

FINKO Oleg Aleksandrovich
Deputy Chairman of the Commitee
Tel.: 292-7883, 292-9163
Faction: Liberal-Democratic party of Russia
Born in 1941, higher education, associate professor, member of the Liberal Democratic party of Russia; since October, 1992 he has been a member of the Political Council of the Front of National Salvation. Chief editor of the “Yuridicheskaya gazeta” (Judicial Newspaper), Moscow.

KLOCHKOV Igor Yevgenyevich
Deputy Chair of the Commitee
Tel.: 292-1867, 292-9687
Faction: Agrarian Party of Russia
Born in 1939, higher education, non-party. 
Chair of the Board of the Russian Bank “Solidarity,” Moscow.

KARELIN German Yuryevich
Secretary of the Commitee
Tel.: 292-5655, 292-9489
Faction: Democratic Party of Russia
Born in 1956, higher education, member of the Democratic Party of Russia.  Since February, 1994 he has been a member of the Political Board of the Democratic Party of Russia.  Chair of the Sverdlovsk regional organization of Democratic Party of Russia, Yekaterinburg.

NISNEVICH Yuri Anatolyevich
Chairman of the Subcommitee on Communications and Informatics
Tel.: 292-6955, 292-7695
Faction: Choice of Russia
Born in 1951, Jewish, higher education, co-chairman of Moscow organization of the movement “Democratic Russia.”  Since March, 1994 he has been a member of the initiative group of the party Democratic Choice of Russia; since June, member of the Political Board of the “Democratic Choice of Russia.” Deputy Director of the “Face to Face” joint  venture company, Moscow.

YAKOVENKO Igor Aleksandrovich
Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Press
Tel.: 292-1481, 292-6980
Faction: bloc Yavlinskiy-Boldyrev-Lukin (“Yabloko”)
Born in 1951, higher education, associate professor, co-chairman of the Republican Party of Russian Federation. In June, 1994 he left the RPRF and became vice-chairman of the Party “Democratic Alternative.” Director of the sociological service “Monitoring”, Moscow.

IGNATYEV Kirill Borisovich
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Television and Radio
Tel.: 292-3792
Faction: Choice of Russia
Born in 1966, higher education, non-party. Until 1994 he was a deputy chair of the Ostankino TV and Radio Company; since 1994, he has worked at NTV company.  Since March, 1994 he has been a member of initiative group of the party Democratic Choice of Russia.

AMELINA Alla Leonidovna
Tel.: 292-4469, 292-7937
Faction: Choice of Russia
Born in 1952, higher education, non-party. Since March, 1994 she has been a member of the initiative group of party Democratic Choice of Russia. Deputy editor of the newspaper “Vecherniy Rostov,” Rostov-on-Don.

BOLSHAKOV Vadim Ivanovich
Tel.: 292-3718, 292-7937
Faction: Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
Born in 1930, higher education, Candidate of Sciences (History), non-party. Advisor of sociological group of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, historian, Moscow.

IVANOV Yuri Pavlovich
Tel.: 292-5472, 292-90277937
Faction: Communist party of Russia
Born in 1944, higher education, member of Communist Party of Russia. Member of the Moscow regional Bar Collegium, Moscow.

KRASNITSKIY Yevgeny Sergeevich
Tel.: 292-9690, 292-7122
Faction: Communist Party of Russia
Born in 1951, secondary education, member of Communist Party of Russia.  At election time he was Secretary of the standing commission on communication and informatics of St. Petersburg’s City Council.

LUKASHEV Igor Lvovich
Tel.: 292-9944, 292-3164
Faction: Yavlinskiy-Boldyrev-Lukin (“Yabloko”)
Born in 1955, higher education.  At the election time he was a member of “inner council” of Volgograd’s regional Council of People’s Deputies, Volgograd.

TRUSHNIKOV Aleksandr Hristoforovich
Tel.: 292-5662, 292-4505
Faction group: New Regional Policy
Born in 1948, higher education, non-party. At election time he was a journalist of the TV & Radio Company “Region-Tyumen,” Tuymen.

CHIKIN Valentin Vasilyevich
Tel.: 292-8460, 292-0410
Faction: Communist Party of Russia
Born in 1932, Russian, higher education, member of the Communist party of Russia.  Member of the political council of the Front of National Salvation.  From October, 1992 to April, 1994, he was a member of initiative group of the movement “Accord in the Name of Russia.” Chief editor of the newspaper “Sovetskaya Rossiya,” Moscow.