· Prof. Yassen Zassoursky (Dean of the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University) Russian Practice of Licensing of Broadcasters in the Context of International Standards

· Olga Shcherbakova (Executive Director, National Association of Teleradiobroadcasters) Position of the NAB on Issues of Licensing of Broadcasters

· Aleksei Simonov (President, Glasnost Defence Foundation) Licensing of Broadcasting in Retrospective

· Manana Aslamazyan (TACIS expert, director-general of Internews, member of the Federal Competition Commission) On the Legal Foundations of the Federal Competition Commission

· Vyacheslav Ryabkov (head of the licensing department, legal service of the Ministry for Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications) Legal Issues of Licensing Activity: Position of the Ministry for Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications

· Willem Korthals Altes (TACIS expert, the Netherlands) Licensing of Broadcasting in the Council of Europe and the European Union

· Stanislav Sheverdyaev (Moscow State University, Faculty of Law, TACIS expert) Principles to Set Up Regulating Authority in Broadcasting in Russia

· Vladimir Livshitz (Councillor to the Minister for Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications) Future of the Licensing Regulation in Russia

· Wolfgang Kleinwæchter (Universit of Aarhus / NETCOM Institute Leipzig) The German and Russian Broadcasting Systems: Dualism & Federailsm

· Larissa Yefimova (Councillor of the Russian Federation of the 1st class, consultant of the Legal Administration of the State Duma) Issues of Legal Grounds of Necessity to establish Independent Licensing Body in Russia

· Aleksei Samokhvalov (director, Teleradio Research Institute) Violations of Law on Licensing Broadcasters in Modern-Day Russia: Causes and Effects

· Aleksander Kopeika (secretary, Russian Union of Journalists) Real Possibilities for Broadcast Regulation in Russia

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