Russian Media Law and Policy in the Yeltsin Decade

by Price, Monroe Edwin

• ISBN13: 9789041188779
• ISBN10: 9041188770
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Law Intl

Summary

One of the great transitions as the Soviet Union dissolved involved the transformation of state broadcasting in Russia And The Newly Independent States. This book deals with the turmoil associated with struggles in Post-Soviet Russia: struggles for journalistic editorial autonomy the bloody media wars between the Yeltsin government And The legislature the role of the media in the coup the role of the United States, other governments and non-government organizations in shaping the new media.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
PART I: ESSAYS
An Introduction
The Russian Press After Perestroika	5	(13)
Andrei Richter
After the Bloodshed: Survey of the Russian Press from 1993 to 1995	18	(13)
Jamey Gambrell
Freedom of Speech and Democracy
Law, Force, and the Russian Media	31	(16)
Monroe E. Price
Comparing Broadcast Structures: Transnational Perspectives and Post-Communist Examples	47	(13)
Monroe E. Price
Izvestiia as a Mirror of Russian Legal Reform: Press, Law, and Crisis in the Post-Soviet Era	60	(29)
Frances H. Foster
Freedom and Responsibility in the Russian Media	89	(6)
Yassen N. Zassoursky
Information and the Problem of Democracy: The Russian Experience	95	(26)
Frances H. Foster
Evolving Regulation
Elections
Free Speech and the Mass Media in Russia: Lessons from the December 1993 Election and Constitutional Referendum	121	(23)
Melissa Dawson
Information Tribunal Made Permanent Under President's Supervision	144	(5)
Peter Krug
Content Control
Of Founders and Emergencies: Euphemizing Censorship	149	(3)
Peter Krug
Pornography, Pluralism, and the Russian Press	152	(3)
Brian McNair
Parental Law, Harmful Speech, and the Development of Legal Culture: Russian Judicial Chamber Discourse and Narrative	155	(33)
Frances H. Foster
Controlling Content on Television in Russia	188	(5)
Svetlana Kolesnik
Advertising
The MMM Case: Implications for the Russian Media	193	(3)
Frances H. Foster
Legal Regulation of Advertising in Russia	196	(15)
William G. Frenkel
Defamation
Civil Defamation Law and the Press in Russia: Private and Public Interests, the 1995 Civil Code, and the Constitution	211	(38)
Peter Krug
Changing Institutions
Corporate Transformation of the Russian Media	249	(5)
Elena Vartanova
Pass the Advil: Financial Woes of Russia's State Broadcasters	254	(3)
Peter Krug
In Russia, Private Doesn't Mean Independent: Bankers and Oil Tycoons Use the Media as a Business Weapon	257	(3)
Andrei Fadin
Television and Politics: The ORT Crisis	260	(6)
Svetlana Kolesnik
Local Media Legislation in Russian Provinces: An Old and Winding Road	266	(7)
Andrei Richter
Into the Putin Era
The Kremlin Strikes Back: The Reassertion of State Power over the Russian Media	273	(29)
Laura Belin
A Brief Chronology of Russian Media Law and Policy During the Yeltsin Years	302	(13)
Bethany Davis Noll
PART II: DOCUMENTS
Decisions and Recommendations from the Judicial Chamber for Information Disputes
On Violations of the Russian Federation Constitution's Norms on Equality of Women, March 11, 1994, No. 5	315	(2)
On Advertisements Disseminated by the Mass Media That Are Hazardous to Life and Health, May 5, 1994, No. 1	317	(4)
On Violations of Legal and Ethical Norms in Conducting the Paid Game ``05'' with the Use of the Mass Media, June 2, 1994, No. 16	321	(2)
On the Legal Nature of ITAR-TASS Materials, October 14, 1994, No. 4	323	(2)
On the State of Freedom of Mass Information in the Maritime Krai, December 13, 1994, No. 35	325	(4)
On Defense of Freedom of Mass Information in Connection with the Events in Chechnya, December 26, 1994, No. 11	329	(1)
On the Appeal by N.E. Fonareva, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation State Committee on Antimonopoly Policy and Support of New Economic Structures, February 21, 1995, No. 6(43)	330	(2)
On the Appeal by the State Duma of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly Regarding the VGTRK Television Program ``Newspaper Histories'' (``Fascism in Russia. Who?'') of February 22, 1995, March 15, 1995, No. 7(44)	332	(3)
On the Appeal by the State Duma of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly Regarding S. Parkhomenko's Publication We Must Choose Better in the Newspaper Segodnia, May 11, 1995, No. 13(50)	335	(2)
On the Appeal by the Editorial Board and the Editor-in-Chief of Vecherniaia Ufa, Ia. B. Khusainov, Regarding the Legality of Advertisements Published in the Newspaper, May 25, 1995, No. 14(51)	337	(2)
Joint Recommendation of the Presidential Judicial Chamber for Information Disputes and the Union of Russian Journalists on the Freedom of Mass Information and the Responsibility of Journalists, June 15, 1995	339	(4)
On the Appeal by State Duma Deputy Chairman A. Chilingarov Regarding the Publication of Should the Icebergs Be Sold? in Moskovskaia Pravda on June 16, 1995, July 13, 1995, No. 20(57)	343	(2)
On the Appeal by Moscow Oblast' Duma Deputy R. Ia. Murashkovskaia Regarding the Legality of the TOO Klin Television's Activity in Preparing and Disseminating Information of a Pre-election Nature, July 13, 1995, No. 21(58)	345	(2)
On the Appeal by the Russian Federation Federal Assembly State Duma Deputy V.N. Lysenko Regarding Inaccurate Information Broadcast on the ``Vremia'' Program (ORT), September 22, 1995, No. 27(64)	347	(2)
On Violations in A.G. Nevzorov's ``Wild Field'' Program of June 30, 1995, of the Constitutional Rights of Convicts Imprisoned in Institution US-20/2, October 19, 1995, No. 32(69)	349	(3)
On Several Cases Involving Violation of Election Campaign Rules, December 9, 1995, No. 3(14)	352	(3)
On the Publications by E. V. Limonov (Savenko), Hand Grenade at Croats and Black List of Peoples, in the Newspaper Limonka, Nos. 13 and 16 (1995), April 4, 1996, No. 7(90)	355	(3)
On the Application of the Principle of Presumption of Innocence in Journalists' Activity (On an Inquiry from the Moscow Media Law and Policy Center), December 24, 1997, No. 3(10)	358	(5)
Statutes and Decrees
Constitution of the Russian Federation, December 12, 1993 (Excerpts)	363	(2)
Federal Law No. 2124-1 On the Mass Media, December 27, 1991, as amended on January 13, 1995, June 6, 1995, July 19, 1995, December 27, 1995, March 2, 1998, May 24, 2000, and July 7, 2000	365	(26)
Russian Federation Presidential Decree No. 2334 On Additional Guarantees of Citizens' Rights to Information, December 31, 1993	391	(2)
Russian Federation Presidential Decree No. 2335 On the Presidential Judicial Chamber for Information Disputes, December 31, 1993	393	(2)
The Treaty of Public Accord, April 28, 1994	395	(7)
Russian Federation Presidential Decree on Improving the Use of Channel One (Moscow) Television and Its Distribution Network, November 30, 1994	402	(1)
Civil Code of the Russian Federation (Part One), January 1, 1995 (Excerpts)	403	(3)
Federal Law No. 15-FZ On Communications, February 16, 1995	406	(22)
Russian Federation Presidential Decree No. 161 On Guarantees of Citizens' Right to Protection of Health in the Spread of Advertising, February 17, 1995	428	(2)
Federal Law No. 108-FZ On Advertising, July 18, 1995	430	(17)
Russian Federation Government Decree No. 941 On Licensing of Activity Involving Public Screening of Cinema and Video Films, September 15, 1995	447	(6)
Election Regulations for State Television and Radio Companies No. 18/149-P, September 20, 1995	453	(12)
Federal Law No. 191-FZ On the State Support of the Mass Media and Book-Publishing in the Russian Federation, December 1, 1995	465	(6)
Russian Criminal Code, as amended on April 13, 1996 (Excerpts)	471	(1)
Russian Federation Presidential Decree On Improving the State TV Broadcasting in the Russian Federation, August 25, 1997	472	(2)
State Duma Decree No. 2028 On State Regulation of the Activities of the NTV Television Company and Other Non-State Television and Radio Companies, December 19, 1997	474	(2)
State Duma Decree No. 2294 On the Activity of Certain Russian Television Companies, March 18, 1998	476	(2)
Statute on Payment for the Use of the Radio Frequency Spectrum in the Russian Federation, August 6, 1998	478	(2)
Federal Law On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum, September 19, 1997, as amended on March 30, 1999	480	(3)
Draft Federal Law On A Higher Council for the Defense of Morality in Television and Radio Broadcasting in the Russian Federation, vetoed by President Yeltsin on March 31, 1999	483	(7)
Russian Federation Presidential Decree On the Structure of the Presidential Administration, June 3, 2000	490	(2)
Doctrine of the Information Security of the Russian Federation, approved by the Security Council on June 23, 2000	492	(37)
Reports and Other Publications
Russian Newspaper Crisis Recovery Program	529	(13)
Robert Manoff
Robert Coalson
Conrad Hohenlohe
Vladimir Svetozarov
Regional Newspapers and the Russian Crisis	542	(7)
Robert Coalson
Vladimir Svetozarov
1998 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Russia U.S. Department of State	549	(7)
Commentary on 1998 U.S. State Department Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Russia	556	(3)
Manana Aslamazyan
1998 World Press Freedom Review on Russia International Press Institute	559	(10)
Contributors	569