10:00-13:00

Prof. Yassen Zassoursky (Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University) Recommendations of the Council of Europe and issues of access to information

Andrei Koshkin (Dept. of Govt. Information, Administration of the Government of Russia) On measures on implementation of the Ordnance of the Government of the Russian Federation “On provision of access to information on activity of the government of the Russian Federation and federal bodies of the executive branch”

Dr.Yuri Baturin Information: right to…, access to…, supplementation.

Viktor Monakhov (Internews program director) The right to know: how to implement it?

Willem Korthals Altes (TACIS expert, the Netherlands) The law of the Kaliningrad region “On procedure to disclose information by bodies of state power of the Kaliningrad region” (2002), the bill of the Federal Law “On Access to Information Concerning Activities of Government Departments and Local self-Government” and Standard Rules of Accreditation of the Mass Media’s Journalists: View from West Europe

Iosif Dzyaloshisky (President of the Human Rights Foundation “Commission on Free Access to Information”, TACIS expert) A Multi-sided programme of legal and technical provision of access to information is the priority

David Goldberg (TACIS expert, U.K.) Commentary of the texts under discussion

Stanislav Sheverdyaev (Moscow State University, Faculty of Law, TACIS expert) Issues of improvement of law on access to information

Mikhail Dmitriev (First deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of RF) TBA

Discussion

Lunch 13:00-14:00

14:00-18:00

Peter Noorlander (Article 19, London) Expertise of Russian Federal Law “On Access to Information Concerning Activities of Government Departments and Local Self-Government” by ARTICLE 19 Global Campaign for Free Expression

Aleksei Simonov (President, Glasnost Defence Foundation) Access of everyone to information as means of overcoming egoism of journalists

Aleksei Demidov (deputy chair of the programme Information for all, UNESCO) Information for all, UNESCO programme in search of solutions of access to information issues

Elena Panfilova (Transparency International-R) The right to know as means to combat corruption

Marina Savintseva (Transparency International-R) Major models of legal provision of the right to information (experience in Europe)

Marina Karelina (Senior Researcher of the Russian Academy of Justice) Issue of access to court information

Denis Saveliev (Petrozavodsk State University) Dissemination of legal information in Karelia: experience, conclusions, perspectives

Angelika Sineok (director, Rostov-on-Don Media Law and Policy Center) Access to information in the context of social need and public interest

Andrei Tsitovsky (Sreda magazine) Role of television in informing the public on activity of public institutions

Ekaterina Lysova (Press Development Institute) Legal provisions of access of journalists to information: Russian experience

Viktor Naumov (St.Petersburg Institute of Informatics of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Recommendations on presentation of an Internet site for a public institution

Yevgeny Shamanov (Garant company) Provision of access to information: experience of an independent information legal system

Mikhail Ivanov (JSC Consultant-Plus) Informational openness of the governmental bodies as essential step in the development of an effective system of dissemination of legal information

Igor Yakovenko (secretary-general, Russian Union of Journalists) Ways to solve the issues of legal guarantees for the access of journalists to information

For the texts of the documents to be discussed see web page of the Media Law and Policy Institute <http://www.medialaw.ru/indep/eindex.htm> .

Venue: Internet-Hall of the Central House of Journalists (Moscow, 8А Nikitsky Blvd., 2^{nd Floor). Time - 10:00 to 18:00 hrs.}