Russian Federation

[RU] Draft Statute on State Support for the Mass Media

IRIS 1995-1:1/29

Ad van Loon

European Audiovisual Observatory

A draft Statute to regulate the procedure for State support for the mass media and for book publishing as an integral part of Russian mass legislation on the mass media.

The draft also contains provisions on the privatisation of facilities providing backup to the operation of mass media and book publishing.

The draft Statute proposes that some of the provisions should enter into force on 1 January 1995, the draft had not yet been enacted into law on 6 January 1995.