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The European Union has reached a first agreement in Asia with the Republic of Korea. Inter alia, it stipulates that both parties must firstly aim at improving access to their own markets (including telecommunications) by applying the most favoured nation clause and secondly ensure effective and adequate protection for systems of intellectual, industrial and commercial protection by setting up effective legal measures to achieve this. Both parties also agree to support the TRIP'S multilateral agreement which assures, through the WTO (World Trade Organisation), a framework for international relations...

Since 1990, the situation of the printed media in Russia has worsened due to economic pressure and their growing dependence on government subsidies. By now, only a few publications have obtained financial independence from the state or from politically biased groups that see them as their gateway to the power of public and political control (in the old tradition of the country). Despite the miserable condition of the press in Russia with the lowest circulation of newspapers and magazines in decades, lack of school textbooks, poor salaries of the journalists that force many of them into advertising...

In IRIS 1995-9: 9 we announced the adoption of a new law on advertising in the Russian Federation. At that time, the Act was only available in Russian language. An edited text of the law in English language is now available throught the Observatory.

On 22 September 1995 and on 19 October 1995, the Russian President's Judicial Chamber on Information Disputes took a decision in regards to the protection of the privacy of the individual against the media. The first decision concerned a complaint by a Member of Parliament regarding the broadcasting of inaccurate information by the television broadcaster ORT. ORT had broadcast information on a fight in the halls of a State Duma session. In its report on the fight, ORT only mentioned the surname of the MP involved in the fight. The problem was that there are two MPs with the same surname. The one...

In September of this year, the electoral commission of the Russian Federation approved the new regulations governing election campaigns in state mass media within its frontiers. The regulations cover both state radio and television companies and periodicals in which the state is involved. State radio and television companies include all companies which have been set up wholly or in part by official government departments. Publications with state involvement are considered to be those which have been brought out by official state-level departments or which are funded to at least 25% from state budgets...