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On 14 January 1998 a new Bill `on State administration and support of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company' was given its first reading in the Parliament of the Russian Federation (the Duma). The Bill was tabled by Deputies on the Duma's Information Policy and Communications Committee. The Bill consists of five sections; its main provisions are: - The All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company is a legal entity in the form of a State company; - The statutes of the Company must be approved by the Federal Government; - The Company's assets are State...

Until now Russia has had no legislation regulating the problems of television and radio broadcasting. The only legislation in the field - the Mass Media Act - is mainly directed at the press. After six years' work by specialists, a new (eighth) variation of the Bill on Television on Radio Broadcasting was prepared in August 1997. The Duma (Parliament) gave the Bill its first reading on 3 September 1997; its second reading is scheduled for March 1998. The many amendments have been tabled by the Federal President, the Federal Government, Deputies and others. The Duma's Committee on Information Policy...

By decision of 30 October 1997, the Council of the European Union approved the conclusion of a partnership and co-operation agreement between the European Communities and the Russian Federation. As usual, the Agreement contains provisions concerning intellectual property (Article 54 and Appendix 10), providing that Russia will continue to improve the protection of intellectual, industrial and commercial property rights in order to guarantee, within a period of five years from the date on which the agreement comes into force, a level of protection similar to that which exists in the Community, and...

On 31 October 1997 the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan adopted a decree concerning the creation of the Ministry of Information and Public Accord, as well as the Statute of this Ministry. The Ministry replaced the National Agency on the Press and Mass Media Issues. The new Ministry consists of five departments: Mass Media, Domestic Policy, Development of Languages, State Publishing Programmes and Domestic Administration. In the oblasts (regions) of Kazakhstan administrative agencies of Information and Public Accord are created, its directors will be appointed by the Minister with the agreement...

The Judicial Chamber on Informational Disputes under the President of Russian Federation adopted a Recommendation "On the application of the principle of "presumption of innocence" for the journalists' activity". The Recommendation is a reply to the inquiry of the Moscow Media Law and Policy Center. The immediate reason for the inquiry was the draft law "On Television and Radio Broadcasting" that passed its first reading in the State Duma (lower house of the Parliament) in September 1997, Article 18 of which prohibits broadcasters from disseminating information that violates the "presumption of...