Evaluation of new media draft law

Documents

Commentaries

• W.Altes Review of the draft Media Law of the Russian Federation (RF)

• M.Price Comments Russian Media Law Drafts

• Memorandum on Russian Federal Draft Law “On Mass Media”
  by Article 19 Global Campaign for Free Expression

• International Federation of Journalists' letter

Resonance

• Andrei Zolotov Jr. Media Heads Have a Law in the Making

• Andrei Richter. Publicity for the Owners

Laws and rules on access to information

Documents

• Standard Rules of Accreditation of the Mass Media’s Journalists. Draft

• The Law of the Kaliningrad Region of Procedure to Disclose Information by Bodies of State Power of the Kaliningrad Region

• Draft Russian Federation Federal Law on Access to Information Concerning Activities of Government Departments and Local Self-Government.

• Doctrine of the Information Security of the Russian Federation

• Freedom of Information Act (2000) (U.K.)

Commentaries

• Russian Federal Law “On Access to Information Concerning Activities of Government Departments and Local Self-Government
  by Article 19 Global Campaign for Free Expression

• D.Goldberg Comment on the Law of Procedure to Disclose Information by Bodies of State Power of the Kaliningrad Region
• D.Goldberg Federal Law on Access to Information Concerning Activities of Government Departments and Local Self-Government
• D.Goldberg Comment on the Standard Rules of Accreditation of the Mass Media Journalists
• Willem F. Korthals Altes The Draft Russian Federation Law on Access to Information and the Draft Law of The Kaliningrad Region Viewed From a Western European Perspective

Conference

• Program of the conference "Topical Issues of Legal Guarantees of Access to Information"

Resonance

• Declassifying government not easy

• Meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation (June 23, 2005). Press Release

• The Right to Access to Information: Monitoring Experience. Galina Arapova (Russia)

Documents

• Principles Of the Formation, Organization, and Activity of a Special State Body of the Russian Federation For Licensing Television and Radio Broadcasting (The Federal Television and Radio Broadcasting Commission)
• Federal Law on the Federal Television and Radio Broadcasting Commission of the Russian Federation (draft law)
• The revised European Convention on Transfrontier Television and its Explanatory Report
• Explanatory Report to the revised European Convention on Transfrontier Television
• Recommendation Rec (2000) 23 on the Independence and Functions of Regulatory Authorities for the Broadcasting Sector
• Recommendation No. R (96) 10 on the guarantee of the independence of public service broadcasting
• Recommendation No. R (99) 1 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Measures to Promote Media Pluralism

• European Convention on the Legal Protection of Services based on, or consisting of, Conditional Access

Commentaries

• Yana Sklyarova The Russian System of Licensing of Television and Radio Broadcasting

• Danilo A. Leonardi Licensing broadcasters in the 15 member states of the European Union

• Marius Lukosiunas. Expert Opinion on the Principles of the Organization and Functioning of Non-governmental Public Body on Licensing of TV and Radio Broadcasting in Russian Federation

• Willem Kortals Altes. Licensing of broadcasting in the Council of Europe and the European Union

• Wolfgang Kleinwæchter. The German Broadcasting System: Dualism & Federailsm

• Wolfgang Kleinwæchter. Public Broadcasting in Europe, the EU Amsterdam Protocol of 1997 and the GATS Negotiations within the WTO

Conference

• Programme of the International Conference "Federal Competition Commission and licensing of television and radio broadcasters"