Post-Soviet Media Law & Policy Newsletter

Issue 37 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law June 13, 1997

INSIDE

Signs of the Times

I. Two TV stations to share Channel 3 in Moscow region.

II. New Threats to Press Independence Emerge.

III. Financial Interests Vie to Control Komsomolskaya Pravda.

IV. Financial Interests Vie to Control Komsomolskaya Pravda: Commentary by editor in chief, Valery Simonov.

V. Yeltsin orders TV bosses to carry more provincial news.

VI. Accusations against federal TV-radio service.

VII. Who are the top 10 spenders on TV advertising in Russia as of January 1997?

VIII. Advertising Extra.

IX. What are Russia's top 13 publications?

Articles

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

Law on the Provision of Information to the Public

Law on the National Radio and Television

One Step Towards Public Radio and TV

Round Table Discussion: Estonian Language Media and Russian Language Media—Two Worlds Apart

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