Post-Soviet Media Law & Policy Newsletter

Issue 15     Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law     February 27, 1995

Moscow Media Development Organizations: A Directory

    The USIA has established a Media Assistance Clearinghouse in Moscow. The Clearinghouse has recently established a newsletter with valuable information, including schedules of upcoming events. In the inaugural issue, a partial list of media devel opment organizations with permanent offices in Russia was provided. For further information, if you have email, send a message to nwpilugin@glas.apc.org.

British Broadcasting Corporation MPM
Moscow: (7095) 956-3113, Fax: 956-3116.
Russian-language radio programming, works with BBC World Service Training in London on training courses for Russian jour nalists.

Institute for the Advanced Training of Workers of TV and Radio
Sergei Dimitrivich Mizerov
Moscow (7095) 241-92-73/289-4387, Fax: 289-43-71
Continuing and advanced education for broadcast journalists from state and independent TV and radio stations.

Eurasia Foundation
Moscow: (7095) 956-12-35, Fax: 956-12-39,
E-mail: efmoscow@glas.apc.org
Saratov: (8452) 91-0159, Fax: (8452) 24-0446,
E-mail: ef@ef.saratov.su
Vladivostok: (4232) 215-854/218-357,
Fax: (4232) 254-661, E-mail: efvlad@sovam.com
Sponsors regional newspaper competitions to raise journal istic standards and improve business operations, other grant activities.

Glasnost Defense Foundation
Moscow: (7095) 201-44-20, Fax: 201-49-47
 Involved in protection of journalists’ rights, legal educa tion. Currently publishing handbook for reporters traveling to conflict zones in the former Soviet Union.

Globus Press Syndicate
Viktor Davidov, Tatiana Nevzorova
Moscow: (7095) 133-3395, Fax: 134-2010,
E-mail: globus@glas.apc.org
Press syndicate that providing regional newspapers with features, interviews and other materials.

Internews
Moscow: (7095) 973-21-44, Fax: 291-21-74
Lead contractor for the Russian-American Media Partnerships program. Conducts workshops, supplies programming for independent regional and local TV stations, produces weekly news program” Mestnoye Vremya.”

IREX
Chris Speckhard
Moscow: (7095) 290-24-44/-5878, Fax: 202-44-49
Offers journalists one and two-year of graduate studies at American universities under the Freedom Support Act.

Russian-American Press and Information Center
Moscow: (7095) 203-3786/-4403, Fax: 203-6831,
E-mail: rapic@glas.apc.org.
St. Petersburg: (812) 273-28-51/-4733,
Fax: (812) 272-46-72, E-mail: sprapic@glas.apc.org
Nizhny Novgorod: (8312) 35-62-53/35-94-56,
Fax: (8312) 35-62-53, E-mail: nnrapic@glas.apc.org
Novosibirsk: (3832) 66-75-21. Fax: (3832) 66-75-21,
E-mail: azabol@glas.apc.org
Journalism resource centers offering data base searches and other information services, offer seminars and other training programs, conduct news conferences. Co-contractor for Russian American Media Partnerships program.

Russian Institute of Press and Mass Media
Moscow: (7095) 272-48-78/-64-73, Fax: 271-08-23
Advanced training for print journalists, monitors political, economic and other factors affecting print media, maintain computer data base of Russian publications.

Russian Press Committee
Josef Mikhailovich Dzaloshinky
Moscow: (7095) 229-26-63, Fax: 200-22-81

Soros Foundation
Daphne Skillen
Moscow: (7095) 928-56-34/921-60-05,
Fax: 288-95-12/975-20-28
Funds various TV and radio projects including equipment for independent radio stations. Sponsors TV production competitions and is developing a radio news information agency.

All-Russia Union of Journalists
Moscow: (7095) 201-44-66, Fax: 201-35-47
Association of professional journalists.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Jeanne Bourgault, Carol Marquis
Moscow: (7095) 956-42-81, ext. 5826, Fax: 956-70-92/-93
Provides funding for the Russian American Media Partnerships Program and other programs to develop independent media in Russia.

United States Information Service (USIS)
Moscow: (7095) 956-4238, Fax: 255-97-66,
E-mail: usis@glas.apc.org
St. Petersburg: (812) 311-89-05, Fax: (812) 117-20-09
Vladivostok: (4232) 25-94-24,
Fax: (4232) 26-84-45, E-mail: greg@usia.marine.su

USIA Media Assistance Clearinghouse
Moscow: (7095) 291-59-85, Fax: 203-68-31
E-mail: nwpilugin@glas.apc.org
USIS sponsors journalism training programs, provides funding for American journalists to assist in Russian media development  and  for RAPIC and other organizations.