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On 31 December 1999, the Ministry of Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications adopted "Regulations of the Federal Competition Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting". The document stipulates the procedure for carrying out tenders for broadcasting licensing in Russia. The Federal Competition Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting (The Federal Commission) consists of nine members and takes decisions for the assigning of frequencies. The Federal Commission can vote either secretly or openly, by a simple (yes/no) vote, or by a rating vote. The voting takes place after the applicants'...

In the summer of 1999 the main amendments to the "Law on Basic Guarantees with respect to the Voting Rights of Citizens and Their Right to Take Part in Referenda" (Law on Basic Guarantees) was adopted. The Law on Basic Guarantees is the main law that determines the principles for implementing all federal, regional and local elections. The changes made to the Law on Basic Guarantees had made it necessary for all other laws governing the organisation of various elections to be brought into line with it. That is why incorporating the changes to the Presidential Elections Law was crucial to the successful...

The Statute "On Administrative Responsibility of Juridical Persons for Violation of Legislation of the Russian Federation on Elections and Referenda" was adopted by the State Duma (parliament) on 5 November 1999 and entered into force on 8 December. The Statute consists of 25 articles, the majority of which are devoted to procedural issues. Without its procedural rules the Statute would be inoperable because the ordinary rules of administrative procedure, which are part of the (1984) Russian Code of Administrative Infractions, are intended for the assignment of responsibility to natural persons...

The charter and membership list of the Federal Commission for the issue of Broadcasting Licences was signed on 28 September 1999 by the Ministr po delam petschati, teleradioweschtschanija i sredstw massowych kommunikazij (Federal Minister for Press, Television, Radio and Mass Communications). The establishment of this commission was laid down by Federal government decree #698 of 26 June 1999 (IRIS 1999-8: 8). Under this decree, all licences for television and radio and the use of frequencies in towns with populations greater than 200,000 persons are to be issued solely by tender. However, as a...

On 10 September 1999, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted the Statute of the Ministry of the Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications, which was created in July 1999 after the abolition of the State Committee on the Press and the Federal Service for Television and Radio Broadcasting. In accordance with the Statute, the main tasks for the new Ministry are: developing state policy in the field of the mass media; mass communications; broadcasting and publishing; licensing and registration of the mass media; control over the use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the use of satellites...