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On 26 June 1999, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted the Decree on Competitions for Obtaining Broadcasting Rights and on Development of New Radio-Frequency Channels for Broadcasting. The Decree determines the new licencing procedure in Russia. Under the new Decree broadcasting licences and licences to use telecommunications frequencies are to be obtained on the basis of competitions in the capitals of the regions of the Russian Federation and in those cities with a population of more than 200.000 people. The Federal Service for Television and Radio Broadcasting (FSTR) shall determine...

The new version of the Act containing important amendments to the previous Election and Referendum Act was published on 6 April 1999 and has entered into force. Five of the 48 paragraphs of the Act are concerned with amendments to current provisions regulating mass-media coverage of election campaigns. Among the most significant provisions of the Election Act (including its amended version) are the following: - once a complete list of election candidates has been drawn up, all candidates and parties on that list are equally entitled to election advertising in the mass media; - all state broadcasting...

On 16 February 1999, the Russian government adopted a new procedure (#179) with respect to the regulation of television and radio broadcasting. This provision outlines a method of providing a tender, for obtaining the right to use radio frequencies for television and radio broadcasting using MMDS, LMDS and MVDS systems. The need for this document is related to the adoption on 2 June 1998 of Government Regulation # 552, which introduced the system of payment for the use of the radio frequency spectrum (until that time, payment was required only for the obtaining of a licence). A tender procedure...

On 5 March 1999, Russian Parliament adopted after the first reading the Bill on Particularities of Disposition of the Shares of the Stock Company "Public Russian Television (ORT)". The aim of this Bill is to strengthen governmental control over ORT which broadcasts on the first national TV channel. Though the government has the controlling share, its role in ORT is very limited. Hence Article 2 of the bill forbids transfer of ORT shares to foreign states, international organizations, and foreign legal and physical entities. Article 1 of the bill requires that any deals concerning the 51 percent...

The Judicial Chamber on Informational Disputes under the President of the Russian Federation has concluded that TV listings cannot be considered as advertising. Russian advertising law states that the amount of advertising in a non-advertising medium shall not be more than 40 percent of total printing space. Anyone violating that limit can be fined. Two cable television companies in the Urals region were publishing listings of their programmes in a general interest local newspaper. In total, advertising information per se and program listings made up 60 percent of the printing space. The Commission...